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Running SSDs completely full

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SickBeast

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Hey guys, I would appreciate your thoughts on this. I use my SSDs primarily for gaming. Am I ok to keep them 90% full, or even more than that? I figure with gaming they are pretty much read only volumes. Do I need to worry about leaving more free space than that for the garbage collection and self maintenance that the drives do? What do you guys think? TIA.
 
To date I've never had a problem. A few of my systems run with basically no free storage on the SSD for the last couple years (lazy). Ideal? No, but probably not a big deal if you occasionally upgrade your stuff.

These are old 256gb Crucial M4 drives.
 
If you want long life, leave them a bit empty, especially some of the TLC ones that have to background refresh the cells from time to time. I'd probably say just so you have a bit of elbow room for yourself leave at least 10% to 5% free space if it's mostly read operations.
 
SickBeast said:
Hey guys, I would appreciate your thoughts on this. I use my SSDs primarily for gaming. Am I ok to keep them 90% full, or even more than that? I figure with gaming they are pretty much read only volumes. Do I need to worry about leaving more free space than that for the garbage collection and self maintenance that the drives do? What do you guys think? TIA.
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It depends on the type of SSD. Higher quality ones will have a bit of hidden space that is used to help with wear leveling. For consumer grade SSD's it's recommended that you underprovision your capacity by 10%. So if you have a 400GB SSD, you should only create a 360GB volume.

You can read a little bit here: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000023410/memory-and-storage.html
 
Thanks guys, I appreciate the replies.

The drive in question is a Micron 1100 2tb drive. It looks to me like a rebranded and perhaps overprovisioned Crucial MX300. The Crucial drive actually comes with 2050gb whereas my Micron drive only has 2000gb. So I have a feeling Micron overprovisioned the drive with the extra 50gb. At least I hope that's what they did.

I will see how many games I can fit and take it from there. I will probably run it 90-95% full.
 
Hi SickBeast! Seagate here. Try to keep between 10% to 20% free on a drive. The closer you get to maximum capacity you will start experiencing sluggishness in the read/write and potentially other problems may arise like fragmentation of data. (more of an issue with HDDs than SSDs)
 
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