over provisioning

[Latislapaloie]

Can someone help me understand what "over provisioning" does and should i do it?

 

http://imgur.com/a/d5S9d

[nsyedhasan]

There was a post on Tom's hardware about this.

 

The overprovisioning feature of the Samsung SSD Magician allows a user to shrink or expand the logical volumes created on a Samsung SSD. In other words you can change the default overprovisioning if you want to. I recommend leaving it alone.

Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/278446-32-samsung-magician-provisioning

[Latislapaloie]

There was a post on Tom's hardware about this.

 

Source: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/278446-32-samsung-magician-provisioning

thanks

[Bad2049]

Quote from within Magician:

 

 

Over Provisioning sets aside extra free space on the SSD for the controller to use to increase SSD performance and lifespan.

[mgsstar]

I have an 120gb Samsung 840 drive and I have about 11.0 gb used for provisioning. I would recommend doing it because it improves performance.

[Latislapaloie]

I have an 120gb Samsung 840 drive and I have about 11.0 gb used for provisioning. I would recommend doing it because it improves performance.

i set it to 5% (11gb) thanks!

[hojnikb]

Every ssd already does OP (in reality 120/128GB ssd is really a 128GiB; difference in formatting between GB and GiB is then used for OP) , no need to set aside additional space, unless you're crazy about performance consistency.