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Does low disk space affect SSD performance?
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Mar 15, 202643517 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I was wondering if having less than 5-10GB of free space on an SSD would affect performance. Is it specific to SSD or is it more of an operating system aspect? For example, on an Intel X-25 G2 that has TRIM support (on Windows 7).
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Most SSDs will slow down as they fill up. SSDs tend to chose empty blocks to write in, since they can only modify a block by erasing and re-writing the entire block. Once all of these blocks are partially filled, then every write operation will requ…
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