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Fixed size disk vs dynamically allocated: is there a performance difference on an SSD?

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When using a virtual disk, I understand that on a HDD there is often a write speed penalty while the drive is still growing. But for an SSD is this penalty mostly eliminated? Is there any other advantage of using a fixed size?

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I don't think that a fixed sized virtual disk give that much difference. The opposite may be true because I've experienced a lot of problem with sparse file allocation on some embedded devices. Hence using a SSD instead of a HDD doesn't simplified s…

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