Question Any downsides of partitioning an SSD ?

[mafi]

I have a 2TB Samsung 980 PRO SSD.
I created a 465 GB partition(25% of the real capacity) for drive C (Windows partition) and the rest (75%) for drive D where I installed games and some other programs. Is there any downside for performance or is it going to affect reliability on the long term ?

 

[Moonstick2]

I don't think it makes any difference at all. My understanding is that unlike with a traditional HDD, partitoning an SSD doesn't actually restrict the partitions to certain regions of the memory. It's still all spread out as it would be if it was a single partition and the partitions themselves are kind of illusionary.

SSDs can drop off in performance when they approach full, but again I believe that applies only to the total fill of the entire SSD, not to any individual partitions.

The one advantage is that you'll be able to reinstall your OS without having to download your games, assuming you're using Steam or anything that behaves similarly. Your programs you may have to reinstall unless they're completely standalone.

So no real reason to partition, no real reason to undo your partitioning if you're happy with it.

 

[Bob.B]

I have a 2TB Samsung 980 PRO SSD.
I created a 465 GB partition(25% of the real capacity) for drive C (Windows partition) and the rest (75%) for drive D where I installed games and some other programs. Is there any downside for performance or is it going to affect reliability on the long term ?

Depending on how fussy you are you might find that having the OS and games on the same disk is not the best combo for perf.

 

[geofelt]

No impact on performance or reliability.
Space management might be an issue.
For example, your D space starts to get full but you want to install a new game. What do you do? Install it on the C drive anyway?