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SSD partitioning, empty spaces, and organization
Running Alienware 17R3, Windows 10 Home on a 250GB Samsung 840 EVO M.2 SSD
It's not a big thing, mostly curiosity...
Back a few years, I read (if I recall correctly) that we always needed to "over partition" an SSD with at least 10% unallocated space at the end. Is there ANY GOOD reason to continue doing this?
There are a couple "unusable" areas on the SSD - again IIRC they showed up when I formatted and installed Windows 10 on there. It looks like:
500 MB Healthy (EFI System Partition)
85 GB NTFS partition for O/S
A couple other partitions for specific things
450MB Healthy (Recovery Partition)
11.75 GB Healthy (Recovery Partition)
So, I"ve got a 500 MB, 450 MB, and 11.75 GB partition that are doing SOMETHING, but if they're not doing anything useful, I'd like that 12GB back! SO, are they NEEDED, and if so, FOR WHAT?
And if I DON'T need 'em, can I just delete 'em and reuse the unallocated space?
And is there ANY point in running Samsung Magician these days? If so, what extraordinary things is it going to do for me, and what do I need to set up?
Last edited by GracieAllen; 29 Oct 2017 at 19:08.