There's no reason you should not partition SSD! Why people keep think it's bad to partition SSD?

[HQuan]

I answer question on Quora "almost" everyday. And what I keep seeing people ask is:

 

"Is it safe to partition SSD", "Why partition SSD is bad", "My stupid laptop techy boy say don't partition SSD or it die"

 

Why do people keep thinking that paritition SSD is bad? Defragment is what bad and harmful to SSD! Partition SSD basically don't harm/reduce write time/slow down/whatever. What happen to these people?

[HQuan]

Also, here's what Google say

[Levent]

Maybe try asking those people?

[Eigenvektor]

6 minutes ago, HQuan said:

Why do people keep thinking that paritition SSD is bad? Defragment is what bad and harmful to SSD! Partition SSD basically don't harm/reduce write time/slow down/whatever. What happen to these people?

Most likely the kind of people asking these questions simply aren't very knowledgeable about technology. They probably don't know or understand what partitioning is or does, otherwise they wouldn't be asking.

[RojiK]

I have never heard of this before weird ! i have had lots of SSDs that i have partitioned never had a problem

 

Tho i have seen lots on don't defrag is that still a thing ?

[Eigenvektor]

30 minutes ago, RojiK said:

Tho i have seen lots on don't defrag is that still a thing ?

Yup. It has virtually not advantage since seek times are very low for SSDs and you are eating into the "max terabytes written" lifetime budget of your SSD (for no good reason)

 

~edit: In other words, defragging simply no longer serves a purpose. It is essentially a workaround for shortcomings of mechanical drives, that serve no purpose on a drive with no moving parts.

[HQuan]

58 minutes ago, Levent said:

Maybe try asking those people?

Good idea! Will ask tonight, lets see where they claims it.

[HQuan]

44 minutes ago, RojiK said:

I have never heard of this before weird ! i have had lots of SSDs that i have partitioned never had a problem

 

Tho i have seen lots on don't defrag is that still a thing ?

Basically defrag is not needed for SSD, since it already fast, only those HDD needs to defrag. 

When defrag SSD, you're wasting tons of write circle and it doesn't... bring any new result or even increase some speed. 

 

[wseaton]

I've not heard of anybody claiming partitioning hurts SSDs. I have heard a lot of nitwits claim running an OS and programs off two different partitions makes the drive faster. 

 

Other silly comments I see here like cloning to a new drive is dangerous and you should install a new OS to be safe, etc.

 

[HQuan]

3 minutes ago, wseaton said:

I've not heard of anybody claiming partitioning hurts SSDs. I have heard a lot of nitwits claim running an OS and programs off two different partitions makes the drive faster. 

 

Other silly comments I see here like cloning to a new drive is dangerous and you should install a new OS to be safe, etc.