Skormthemage :
its not so much why not do it as it is , a question of doing it to much, like say your someone that gets really close to that storage limit and constantly swaps it out that wont compromise the ssd is what im asking . Thank you for your patience with me by the way I really appreciate it
Well - I think the recommendation is 10% for Samsung.. so if you saying you want to contract it to 5% which you mess around and the expand back to 10%.. I don't think that would have any long term detrimental impact on the life of the SSD..
But TBH.. I have a Samsung SSD.. I gave it the 10%.. and now I just completely forget about it.. as far as I am concerned the drive is now <size - 10%> and I treat that as a hard limit..
But I am organised.. so I wont ever let it get to the point where I have to make such compromises. and micro managing it sounds like a complete PITA..
If you do compromise.. you will be impacting the ultimate life of the drive.. but going from 10% to 5% prob wont impact much at all.. going for 5% to 2% would be more of an impact.. and going 0% may have quite a big impact.
So if you worried about life.. set it up as recommended and don't mess.. if the space is more important... you can mess.. but the more you compromise.. the more the impact. Exactly where the boundaries of space vs impact are .. who knows? . well Samsung probably do.. which is why the recommend 10%..
Anyway - we done this to death now.. good luck in whatever you chose.
Cheers
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