SSD Partition required?

[magnus_m6]

Hi, I'm new here. As far as I concern, if you have a HDD is a good practice to partition it, and if I'm not wrong, partitioning a HDD would take some GB. What about an SSD? Is it necessary to partition a SSD?

I mean, because of SDD is more expensive than HDD, I think you want to use every GB of it.

Thank you in advance.

 

[coreydwillis2]

Partitions essentially take one physical drive and separates it into logical partitions. This way on your computer, it would look like you had more than one hard drive, when you really only have one physical drive. There are purposes for doing this, but most uses don't need to partition their drives.

The difference between a regular spinning drive and an SSD comes down to speed and how much force they can handle. SSDs are very fast and don't have moving parts so they are great for laptops, but also make desktops boot up faster. You can get more GB/$ with a standard drive, but they are much slower. You can also get SSHD drives that are spinning drives with a small SSD inside them that tries to get the speed of the SSD and the cheap total storage of the older spinning drives.

 

[Quixit]

I'd love to see how you're using your SSD without a partition. 😀

I think you mean, a single partition rather than multiple partitions. You can't store anything on a SSD without a partition.

The only reason you used to need multiple partitions on one drive was because of software limitations on older hardware, current OSes don't have these issues so one big partition is the best way to use space.

 

[coreydwillis2]

I'd love to see how you're using your SSD without a partition. 😀

I think you mean, a single partition rather than multiple partitions. You can't store anything on a SSD without a partition.

The only reason you used to need multiple partitions on one drive was because of software limitations on older hardware, current OSes don't have these issues so one big partition is the best way to use space.

I was going off the assumption that he was asking about multiple partitions. Haha.