Is there any point in partitioning an SSD? Yes.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/280992-32-point-partitioning

Is there any downside? No.

https://superuser.com/questions/808833/disadvantages-of-partitioning-an-ssd

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX vrfx@optonline.net wrote:

Am curious as 2 Y U would want 2 do it?!

That's normally something U do on a Big drive! Am curious - how big is Ur SSD??? Since - of course - size matters!

Also - am wondering if it may actually have a Neg impact on the SSD 2 do so...

-K-

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On Mar 30, 2016, at 5:41 PM, John Weller john@jbweller.force9.co.uk wrote:

Is it possible to partition an SSD drive?

TIA

John

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On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, at 01:50 AM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote:

Damn bad WAG's & Q's on my part!

But I do remember comments in past on how too much R/W's can cause degradation that occurs faster than regular HD's...

That was certainly the case when they first appeared but is now far less of an issue, to the extent where in normal use you'd be replacing the PC twice by the time the SSD drive started degrading.

http://betanews.com/2014/12/05/modern-ssds-can-last-a-lifetime/

It's called write cycles, and there is a max value when the SSD's performance starts to degrade.

Disk reads are not problems.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Kurt @ VR-FX vrfx@optonline.net wrote:

But I do remember comments in past on how too much R/W's can cause degradation that occurs faster than regular HD's...

Hi Kurt,

Since I have had an iPad I've become very frustrated with the time it takes my PC to boot so I am going to fit an SSD to hold the OS. I am looking at a 250Gb drive but then had the thought that if I bought a 350Gb drive I could partition it and put the OS in one partition and the most used data in the second. I have been reassured by the comments so far that it is possible.

John

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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Kurt @ VR-FX Sent: 31 March 2016 00:37 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] SSD Drives

Am curious as 2 Y U would want 2 do it?!

That's normally something U do on a Big drive! Am curious - how big is Ur SSD??? Since - of course - size matters!

Also - am wondering if it may actually have a Neg impact on the SSD 2 do

so...

Peter - I agree. Although its been quite a few years since I had a personal computer of mine setup w/Dual Boot - it DOES makes sense to partition an SSD for dual boot. Makes a lot of sense.

Regards, Kurt Wendt Consultant

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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Peter Cushing Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2016 6:43 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] SSD Drives

On 31/03/2016 11:25, John Weller wrote:

Hi Kurt,

Since I have had an iPad I've become very frustrated with the time it takes my PC to boot so I am going to fit an SSD to hold the OS. I am looking at a 250Gb drive but then had the thought that if I bought a 350Gb drive I could partition it and put the OS in one partition and the most used data in the second. I have been reassured by the comments so far that it is possible.

I did something similar a few years ago but only bought a 30gb drive to boot off. I also bought a 500gb drive to store your docs, pics etc. The 30gb drive I partitioned into 10gb for a linux boot and 20gb for a windows boot. Works nicely and you can boot, login and be on the internet in about 30 seconds. Since I bought the kit drives are a lot cheaper so might be tempted to go for a larger boot drive if I was doing it now.

Not sure what advantage it gives you partitioning if you are only having 1 OS on it.

Peter

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