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

[TopHatterCT]

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.

 

[Colif]

Its only really helpful if you think you likely to fill the drive.

I have it on my 1tb nvme but I probably never actually use drive to its fullest, so its a waste

most drives have extra set aside for the purpose already

SSD overprovisioning Needed or Not Needed?

Have Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB NvMe M.2 Boot Drive and Samsung 860 Evo 1TB Sata SSD Game Drive. Place that built system didn't mention anything on over provisioning for the SSD drives at all, just built it, and let me know when it was ready, i went there back then, paid, picked it up...

www.elevenforum.com

 

[zinkles]

while not mandatory or anything, as colif said, it's helpful if you fill up the drive.

keeping that aside, it can also improve the SSD lifespan and performance

 

[CountMike]

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.

With modern SSDs, over-provisioning is just a way to force you to leave a part free so garbage collection and write equilising works properly. If you don't fill it all the way there should be no problem.
SSDs have no special area which holds data or even partitions so even over-provisioning partition is not in one place.

 

[Colif]

Helps to keep at least 10% free on ssd anyway to keep the speed up. Closer they get to full, slower they can get. I have about 50% free space on my C drive, never bothered to set it up on my game drive as I am unlikely to fill a 4tb drive up anytime soon.