solid state drive Should SSD be partitioned ?

[Abhijeet Singh]

I have got a new laptop with 1TB SSD ,

1>I want to know that should/can I partition this SSD or not ?(currently it has one large partition only).

2>If yes what is the best and correct way to partition?

3>Does partitioning have any effect on the performance and life-cycle of the SSD ?

[WereCatf]

3 minutes ago, Abhijeet Singh said:

1>I want to know that should/can I partition this SSD or not ?(currently it has one large partition only).

You can partition it if you wish, but you won't gain anything from it. Partitioning an SSD will not make it faster, improve its longevity or anything else, it's completely up to your tastes whether you like to do it or not.

[Constantin]

6 minutes ago, Abhijeet Singh said:

1>I want to know that should/can I partition this SSD or not ?(currently it has one large partition only).

2>If yes what is the best and correct way to partition?

3>Does partitioning have any effect on the performance and life-cycle of the SSD ?

Windows will take care of everything.

[GDRRiley]

5 minutes ago, Constantin said:

Windows will take care of everything.

more so its the drive that make sure it doesn't get destroyed

[berberries]

1. you can, but you shouldn't. folders exist for a reason.

2. windows disk manager, but again, windows explorer > right click > new folder exists

3. no it doesn't do anything to prolong the life or increase performance. It's basically creating folders which are a pain in the ass to delete. Folders exist.

[Windows7ge]

1. Depends/If you want to
2. Easiest method is through Disk Management.
3. No and not really. Most good SSD's already come with an section of NAND you cannot use as storage that the SSD will use as cells lose their functionality. Deliberately sectioning off a portion of usable NAND won't work to increase the life expectancy of the SSD.

The most common use-case for partitioning a boot drive is for setting up dual-boot.

[Abhijeet Singh]

I want to partition so in case my os crashes in future I dont lose my data. But i heard somewhere that we need to align partitions while partitioning of SSD I dont understand that and how to do this.

[HumdrumPenguin]

As everyone said, up to you really. I partitioned storage drives for years, until about 10 years ago. Then I just started having one SSD on my PC, and a big external drive for big files such as videos, images, music, design work, documents, and backups.

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, Abhijeet Singh said:

But i heard somewhere that we need to align partitions while partitioning of SSD I dont understand that and how to do this.

All modern partitioning-software already does aligning automatically.

[porina]

In theory there may be cases where setting a total partition space less than the drive capacity can result in more write performance. In essence you're manually over-provisioning and guarantee there will be a certain amount (extra) of free space that the SSD could use to make writes faster. I think Crucial or was it Kingston, maybe even both, offer this setting in their software for this purpose.

 

In case of SSDs where it uses hybrid SLC cache, you can in effect make a higher proportion of the usable capacity high performance. I'm not sure if this impacts cycle life, and you'd have to lose so much capacity to gain this, you might as well bought a higher spec lower capacity drive to start with.

[porina]

3 minutes ago, Abhijeet Singh said:

I want to partition so in case my os crashes in future I dont lose my data.

The safest thing to do is backup the data to somewhere off the SSD. Preferably off the system.

[doommood]

On 3/12/2020 at 2:45 PM, Abhijeet Singh said:

I have got a new laptop with 1TB SSD ,

1>I want to know that should/can I partition this SSD or not ?(currently it has one large partition only).

2>If yes what is the best and correct way to partition?

3>Does partitioning have any effect on the performance and life-cycle of the SSD ?

1. You should do so in order to separate system data from user data.

2. Disk Management tool. It comes with Windows out of the box. This might help. https://www.diskpart.com/windows-10/windows-10-disk-management-0528.html

3. Check SSD's DWPD. It does matter. You should not overwrite your SSD more than its DWPD value.

 

On 3/12/2020 at 3:05 PM, Abhijeet Singh said:

I want to partition so in case my os crashes in future I dont lose my data. But i heard somewhere that we need to align partitions while partitioning of SSD I dont understand that and how to do this.

This is true only for the case, it would be a software issue with OS drive only. Otherwise, even slitting a single physical disk on two logical ones, you still gonna lose the data. You need proper backup. Check and consider 3-2-1 backup rule https://www.vmwareblog.org/3-2-1-backup-rule-data-will-always-survive/

Data stored on logical drive is not a backup. You need store the data on separate disk that is also backed up to another host that is also but backed up off-site (tapes, flash, cloud).