On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 08:55:04, VanguardLH wrote (my
responses usually follow points raised):
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https://www.seagate.com/tech-insight...its-master-ti/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q15wN8JC2L4 (skip promo ad at end)

I use Samsung's Magician to change overprovisioning on my Samsung SSDs
(https://www.samsung.com/semiconducto...t/consumer/mag
ician/).
However, any partition manager will work where you use it to increase or
decrease the size of unallocated space on the SSD. Because the consumer

Is that all these routines do - declare space to be unallocated?
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"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long" (Lao Tzu).

I like it (-:
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You can use an SSD as shipped and hope the MTBF of 10 years is
sufficient for you as a "normal" user. However, if you're buying SSDs
and doing your own builds, you're not normal. Consumers that buy
pre-built average-spec computers are normal users. Overprovisioning
lengthens lifespan and maintains write performance, and the more the
better. It does reduce capacity, but then you should be over-building
on the parts you install yourself in your computers, so you should be
excessive in storage capacity beyond your expections. If you're willing
to toss more money to get an SSD over an HDD, you should also be willing
to toss more money to get over capacity.

Do you have an (approximate) table of overprovisioning versus
(predicted) lifespan extension (as a percentage, not years)? For
example, what percentage increase in lifespan does increasing
overprovisioning from 10% to 20% give you? Does overprovisioning by 50%
give you double the (predicted) lifespan? And so on.
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