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How Much Of My 1TB Evo Should I Leave Empty?

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I would leave like a quarter free, although most places say don't fill them up past 90%.

I have about 400gb / 930 gb currently free. How much should I leave free in order to increase the lifespan of the SSD? (I am asking because I believe the controlled will shift around read / write cycles to different parts of the drive in order to have uniformity, and not kill one cell first).

 

Also, how much should I leave free in order to not see any performance slow downs?

Double check everything, I am usually wrong.

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I would leave like a quarter free, although most places say don't fill them up past 90%.

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It is recommended to have 20%-25% free, if you need the space then you can go down to 20%.

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Just now, Enderman said:

I would leave like a quarter free, although most places say don't fill them up past 90%.

Right, I don't have any real important stuff besides OS and programs (and a few games) that could even really benefit from the SSD. So I'll just have those on the HDD. 

Double check everything, I am usually wrong.

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Depends what you use it for. Really, if you hardly ever write to it, fill it up completely. Also, most drives already have factory over provisioning, so you don't need to worry about it at all. On top of all that, it's very rare that an SSD will kill itself just because it's full. The SSD in my laptop is only 120GB, of which it almost always has only a couple of GB free, and it has over 25TB of writes. Still perfectly fine.

 

Most people are far too paranoid when it comes to SSD lifespan.

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I had my 240gb very full only 3-5 gb left and ran some test. somehow speed is almost same as it was empty. 

Maybe some storage is already taken out from user control for the buffering?

its just a storage device after all, whats the point of paying and not using?

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