Re: SSDs have extra "unused" space???
Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> On Montag, 20. Januar 2014, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>> As long as it is a modern SSD (years) or one of the old ones one with
>> a sandforce controller (OpenBSD dev let me know about that) then it
>> has a good 20% extra space above it's listed gigabytes reserved
>> unusable for wear levelling meaning this is a non issue even when
>> full?
> wait, what? Do you have any vendor statements to support this 20%
> extra space?
Have a look at this article from Anandtech.com:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6489/playing-with-op
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| The [Intel SSD DC] S3700 has 264GiB of NAND on-board but only exposes 186GiB
| of it (200GB advertised capacity) as user accessible storage, the rest is
| used as spare area to improve performance, consistency and endurance.
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There are numbers for other SSDs in that article.
Grüße,
Sven.
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