Are there wear problems from partitioning a SSD?

Count von Schwalbe · Aug 14, 2022

I guess I am weird then...

I see it like:
TBW=This many gallons of gas to drive from here to Chicago
TDW*=This many tanks of gas to drive from here to Chicago

I guess TBW is more useful for smaller writes and TDW for larger ones.

*Total Drive Writes

Mussels · Aug 15, 2022

Count von Schwalbe said:
I guess I am weird then...

I see it like:
TBW=This many gallons of gas to drive from here to Chicago
TDW*=This many tanks of gas to drive from here to Chicago

I guess TBW is more useful for smaller writes and TDW for larger ones.

*Total Drive Writes

No it's more like being measured by minutes at the pump station, when every pump has different flow rates
Because it's only useful for a static drive size/one location - the moment you want to compare to anywhere else, you cant.

It'd only be useful if every time you used the drive, you filled it completely - no one ever uses a drive that way, we write in bytes at a time, and TB's covers the entire range (thanks to decimal points)

Zareek · Nov 10, 2022

I used to set up my page file to use the secondary hard drive, thinking it boosted performance. With my first SSD, I still kept the page file on a spinner. I was worried about all the extra writes to my write limited, super expensive storage. I figured out pretty quick that if you have a reasonable about of RAM the page file barely gets used. With my current boot drive, a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus, I never moved the page file. It's nearly 3 and a half years old now, and it is the primary application drive. Only games get stored to the game drive, and random stuff like program installers get saved to another SSD. In 3 years and 4 months, I've written 17 TB. Yeah 17 TB, this PC is on 12 to 16 hours a day every day and is used a lot! I use it for everything but work. My point is the drive will die from something else or be obsolete a LONG TIME before I reach the 1200 TBW. The page file isn't an issue. In case you are wondering, the first two years, I had 16 GB of RAM, and now I have 32 GB. I don't baby the drive in any way, page file is set to Windows 10 defaults, automatic sizing on the boot drive. It defaults to something between 16 MB and almost 5 GB.

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Are there wear problems from partitioning a SSD?

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