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Is it bad to completely fill a partition on an SSD with multiple partitions?

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Mar 15, 20261733 views
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I know the conventional wisdom is to make sure you never completely fill your SSD (always leave 10-20% free, write-leveling or something like that) but what about if you've partitioned your SSD into C - 50GB D - 180GB E - 15GB and after loading Win7, programs and data it looks like this C - 50GB / …

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The wisdom is about never completely filling a partition. It has nothing to do with anything special about SSDs or wear-leveling. In fact, it applies less to SSDs because fragmentation doesn't bother them nearly as much as it bothers rotating media.…

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