Leaving space unallocated is called Over provisioning and I use a 10% setting for that on my 1Tb Samsung EVO SSDs. ![]() ![]() It is possible that Your speed is being impacted by the drive always doing garbage collection due to a low amount of free space. ![]() Unallocated space you left will be treated as spare area. Your speed may be impacted if the drive has little space for the garbage collection process to run. A hard drives speed will depend on where the data is written and a SSD should stay the same speed no matter how full it is. The biggest problem with filling a SSD if You do not leave unallocated space is that it may shorten drive life as the unallocated space is used as a part of the garbage collection process and as as spare space if a location should go bad.
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