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Disadvantages of partitioning an SSD?
A wise guy who goes by the name of NickN maintains a lenghty forum post on his views about building a powerful computer (directed towards playing Microsoft's Flight Simulator X, a very demanding piece ...
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How to TRIM/DISCARD a whole SSD partition on Linux?
My partition /dev/sda3 on an SSD drive doesn't contain any filesystem, but it contains garbage. How do I do a TRIM/DISCARD operation on the whole partition?
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Easiest way to move my Windows installation to an SSD?
I've taken the plunge and bought an SSD and want to move my existing Windows installation over. The current hard disk is 500Gb, but I've trimmed the contents down to about ~40Gb. I'm transferring it ...
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Should the pagefile be placed on the SSD or the HDD?
I have read quite a bit about the placement of page files lately (researching my question) and have not found an answer specific to my question, so hopefully someone here can help.
New system being ...
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Quickest way to wipe an SSD clean of all its partitions for repartitioning in Linux?
I want to wipe an SSD clean of all its partitions and data, so I can repartition it (this is not for security purposes).
I've looked at sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M but if this just fills ...
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How to check the partition alignment on an SSD drive?
As I understand it, for SSD it's important to have partitions starting at the proper offset (i.e. correctly aligned). How can I check this offset under Windows Vista?
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Do partitions on SSDs map to physical addresses?
One of the reasons that some folk partition hard drives is that certain parts of the hard drive are supposed to be faster than others. Considering that HDDs are a serial access medium, partitioning, ...
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What's the point of hard drives reporting their physical sector size?
I have an SSD that can be configured to report its physical sector size to an OS in two different ways:
Option 1: Logical = 512 Bytes, Physical = 512 Bytes
Option 2: Logical = 512 Bytes, Physical = ...
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Move EFI System Partition to another drive
I had a Windows 8 installation on an HDD, using UEFI as boot. The HDD has the following GPT table:
DISKPART> list partition
Partizione ### Tipo Dim. Offset
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How to determine SSD's Nand erase block size?
I recently picked up a Crucial M500 240GB SSD (20nm NAND) and I'm trying to figure out the best way to partition it. Currently, I'm using fdisk -cu starting at sector 2048.
I believe the nand page ...
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How to reinstall Windows 10 on new hard disk
I've been using Windows 10 for a couple of month now (joined the Insider Preview).
Now my hard drive started ticking so I've bought a new SSD and I want to move the windows installation to the new ...
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Over-provisioning an SSD - does it still hold?
Multiple (but not very recent) sources suggest that ~7% of the SSD space should be left unallocated in order to reduce the drive wear. Is it still valid as for now or has the situation changed?
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Does the wear leveling algorithm work well on a partitioned SSD?
I recently bought a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB SSD and I would like to know something about wear leveling and partitions.
Does wear leveling work the same regardless of whether I partition it or not? I ...
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SSD partitioning
If I partition a SSD, will it really partition the drive physically or will the SSD Controller (for example Samsung Phoenix) fool the OS that it is partitioned but it actually manages the drive by ...
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Moving a file between two drives on one SSD - will it be copied?
When moving a file within one drive, the file is not copied-and-deleted. The table that refers to the files is just updated. And as far as I know, that is not the case on 2 drives on an HDD. But SSDs ...
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