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    How full is your main drive? SSD vs HDD

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by erig007, Apr 12, 2011.

  1. erig007

    erig007 Notebook Evangelist

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    My main drive being 80% full I've decided to post a poll regarding how full the main drive of people is. You can have several main drives

    Mine is a
    SSD Intel 64GB more than 80% full
     
    erig007, Apr 12, 2011
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  2. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    Intel X25-M G2: 104 GB free of 149 GB available. :)
     
    Cloudfire, Apr 12, 2011
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  3. erig007

    erig007 Notebook Evangelist

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    One lucky guy. Maybe it's time for me to look at upgrade options.

    I realized that the poll requires some calculations, it's easier to look at the free space left than how full the drive is. Thanks to me people will be more clever haha
     
    erig007, Apr 12, 2011
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  4. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    66% full... old school 64GB Samsung PM800 series.
     
    Commander Wolf, Apr 12, 2011
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  5. HTWingNut

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    Which one? LOL.

    Have five going. Three Intels in my laptops, Kingston, and OCZ in my desktops. I have about 20-30GB free on most so anywhere from 20% to 50%. HDD is usually 40-70% full though.
     
    HTWingNut, Apr 12, 2011
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    640GB HDD, about 95% empty (new laptop BTW). :D
     
    alexUW, Apr 12, 2011
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    macaddict84 Notebook Consultant

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    512 SSD drive has only 40GB left :(
     
    macaddict84, Apr 12, 2011
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  8. erig007

    erig007 Notebook Evangelist

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    You plan to compete with the google servers? :)
     
    erig007, Apr 12, 2011
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    9GB of 238GB free (C300). My secondary drive's got 207GB of 238GB free, but too lazy to move files over.
     
    namaiki, Apr 12, 2011
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    T500: 30GB of 74.5GB free (Intel X25-M 80GB)
    X120e: 30GB of 59.5GB free (Samsung 470 series 64GB)

    So, a bit more and a bit less than 50% used.
     
    MidnightSun, Apr 12, 2011
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  11. OneCool

    OneCool I AM NUMBER 67

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    SSD about 20gigs out of 55 used
     
    OneCool, Apr 12, 2011
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  12. pkincy

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    I voted for 50-80% since my C300 is only 2 days old and it is already at 45% full.

    I do hope to keep it less than 70%.

    Doesn't extra space help an SSD?

    Should that be allocated or unallocated space?

    Perry
     
    pkincy, Apr 13, 2011
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  13. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    Unallocated - before first use is 'preferred'.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Apr 13, 2011
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  14. J&SinKTO

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    Intel SSD about 40% full
    Kingston SSD about 45% full
     
    J&SinKTO, Apr 13, 2011
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    Laptop: 500gb HDD, about 50% full
    Desktop: 1tb HDD, about 30% full
    HTPC: 1tb HDD, about 20% full (but I have about 4tb of shows/movies recorded on the data drives).
     
    Syberia, Apr 13, 2011
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    My C300 is 90% full, and my main HDD has around 900MB free out of 750GB.
     
    5482741, Apr 13, 2011
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    I'm at less than 50% full since I keep all the heavy stuff (i.e., samples for music production) on a separate disk. In a perfect world, I'd be able to keep the larger libraries on the SSD, but we haven't yet arrived to that point :)
     
    intellectualdiot, Apr 14, 2011
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    Kingston 128 GB SSD is 67% full.
     
    Orlbuckeye, Apr 14, 2011
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    *namaiki high fives 5482741
     
    namaiki, Apr 14, 2011
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  20. SoundOf1HandClapping

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    For God's sakes, man, invest in external storage!

    System SSD (Intel G2 160GB) has 95.3 free out of 148GB formatted.

    Storage/game/media drive (Samsung HM640JJ) has 256GB free of 596 formatted.
     
    SoundOf1HandClapping, Apr 15, 2011
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  21. dkillone

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    I'm using about 60gigs out of my 119gb samsung 470 ssd. As for the HDD I have about 300gigs in use out of 698gigs.

    I try to put the main current games on the SSD, and keep the rarely played on HDD to save space.
     
    dkillone, Apr 15, 2011
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  22. sugarkang

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    Theoretically, it would be better to have a more full drive, but leave a bigger unused partition, right? So, assuming that you know roughly how much room you need for OS and apps, you should probably shoot for as full as possible right? I'm assuming that SSDs don't suffer from slower speeds due to smaller free space like spindle drives.
     
    sugarkang, Apr 16, 2011
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    Well, a full *drive* would have detrimental effects, albeit a lot less so than a hard drive. But as you stated, a full partition with some unused space the drive probably wouldn't lose much if any performance.

    In hindsight I should have taken my fresh 120GB Intel and left 20GB unused and if I decided I needed the space, just extend the partition. But seeing as how I probably won't use much more than 50% of it anyhow I guess it doesn't matter.
     
    HTWingNut, Apr 16, 2011
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    It might matter for drive longevity. I read in a board post somewhere that an Intel engineer said over provisioning by 20% can extend drive life by 3x. However, I didn't get it from the horse's mouth, so I don't know. I OPed my drive by 20GB anyway. Plus, the additional benefit is that I don't have to worry about running out of space and performance degradation since I have the OPed space. Kind of nice and worry free that way.
     
    sugarkang, Apr 16, 2011
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  25. Phil

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    128GB SSD, 97GB free.
     
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  26. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    110GB free of 148GB (160GB Intel G2). 26% Full (as long as there are no Media Center recordings ;))
     
    Jayayess1190, Apr 16, 2011
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    Win7 Ultimate x64 system:

    130GB free of 149GB (Intel G3 160GB SSD)


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