overprovisioning

Forum discussion tagged with overprovisioning.
  1. TopHatterCT

    [SOLVED] Do I still need to manually overprovision a new SSD in 2024?

    I will be moving some of my games into a new SSD, but with their rising prices recently I could only afford a smaller drive than I had hoped for, so if it's not necessary I'd prefer not to do it. If you need to know, the SSD is a Teamgroup GX2.
  2. _dawn_chorus_

    [SOLVED] SSD overprovisioning VS blank headroom?

    I think I have wrongly assumed that the "overprovisioning" feature in Samsung Magician was allocating the necessary headroom you should leave on any drive so it can play blocks or what not and shift around information without backing itself into a corner. Something I just read described...
  3. J

    [SOLVED] Quick question before I reformat

    I've got a problem with my drive configuration. Somehow I'm using my old, plain-jane ssd as my C: drive and my new Optane 900P as an additional drive. There are quite a few utilities I can use to make a disk copy to sort this out. I'm checking out Samsung Magician at this moment. My question...
  4. K

    Which hardware should I upgrade

    Hello, I have a quite old pc with the specs below: MSI 870-G54 Phenom II X2 BE565 8 GB HyperX Ram Zotac GTX460 I think it is time for me to upgrade since newer games cause a lot of challenge to my rig. Unfortunately I don't have a big budget. I thought of getting Asus M5A97 with AMD FX-6300...