Making Partitions in an SSD??

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Is it possible to make partitions from an ssd??? for example if I have a 1tb ssd is it possible to make another cloned drive and just make it 500gb each so the result will be 2 drives that are equal to 500gb??? Will it break my ssd to do this type of thing??? If this type of thing is possible to do, I will do this specifically on a windows 10 operating system!
 
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Yes. SSDs can be partitioned.

Not sure that I fully understand the cloning part of your post. However, if you clone the existing 1tb SSD then you should be able to go back to that cloned SSD and create two 500 gb partitions.

You will need enough unused SSD space to do that and you may not be able to achieve an exact 50/50 division and/or 500 gb per partition.
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Yes. SSDs can be partitioned.

Not sure that I fully understand the cloning part of your post. However, if you clone the existing 1tb SSD then you should be able to go back to that cloned SSD and create two 500 gb partitions.

You will need enough unused SSD space to do that and you may not be able to achieve an exact 50/50 division and/or 500 gb per partition.
 
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Yes it is possible to partition an ssd. Yes its possible to make two 500gb drive letters

Why do you want to split the partition? it is better to run just a single partition unless your running multi operating systems. (you gain nothing from splitting user files, programs up from the os on a ssd drive)

also Samsung recommends you leave 10% of your drive free for something called "over provisioning" so the controller has blank space in which to do garbage collecting and such more efficiently. (I would just recommend you leave at least 20gb unpartitioned for the task) the setting is in Samsung magician program
 
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Actually, there are some good reasons to partition a drive, (doesn't matter if it's SSD or HDD).
One is: if drive is used as BOOT/System drive, it's better to have a partition for OS and programs and another one for data. The reason is that if system crashes, files are safe on other partitions and you can re-install OS without loosing data.
Over-provisioning works on whole disk and is not tied to any partition.
 
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Thanks for this additional info!
 
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hi. does that mean that Over-provisioning works as long as i have free space on the SSD? or it works better on unallocated free space in a separate partitions like what Samsung Magician does?

thanks.
 
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Some SSDs keep a part that can't be seen anywhere for GC and load leveling while others just use free space without telling you.
En example of first one is when drive has odd size, like 125 instead of more binary logical size of 128GB, 3 GB is out of normal use and used for LL. There must be something explained on it's manufacturer's site.
 
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i see, thanks. do you know about Samsung SSDs? Over Provisioning needs a separate unallocated partition, or can I just leave some space unused without using Over Provisioning function.
 
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