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    Advice needed: partition scheme for secondary drive

    I don't have any partitions in my SSD (system drive). Current usage is about 52GB. The whole 2TB secondary hard drive is still unallocated space at this point, and I'm hoping to get recommendations on the best way to partition it (separate partitions for system backup and the rest for file storage).
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    Unallocated space in new SSD - should I merge it?

    Thank you for the quick answer. I researched some more regarding overprovisioning in SSDs and found out that it's a good idea to set aside a certain percentage of the total disk capacity as unallocated space to prevent using up full storage capacity. Apparently, SSD performance degrades once you...
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    Advice needed: partition scheme for secondary drive

    Hi, Experts! I have two physical drives installed in my laptop: a 256GB m.2 SSD (which holds the system files) and an "extra" 2TB internal HDD. Aside from file storage, I'm thinking about backing up my system into the HDD. So, here's the plan: 1. Create a 100GB partition for Win10 backup in...
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    Unallocated space in new SSD - should I merge it?

    Hi, Experts! I recently cloned my HDD to a new SSD using EaseUS. Everything went well and I am now able to boot from the SSD (already 4k aligned) and cleaned the "old" HDD to use as file storage. However, when I checked Disk Management, it's showing that I have 100mb of unallocated space...