SSD Partition on NEW LOPTOP

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Recently I purchased DELL Laptop with SSD Drive (512 GB). Is it safe to do partition on SSD drive - Would like to do total 3 partitions. pls advice
 
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You can make as many or as few partitions as you want. The two things you should not do are:

1. Do not defrag a SSD. Defragging can improve performance similar to a hard drive if the files are too fragmented. But each sector in a SSD drive can only be written over so many times before it fails and it becomes a bad sector. It is not something to be too concerned about though. The last time I've read stats about possible failure rates of SSDs the conclusion was that a modern SSD should last about 5 to 7 year with normal usage (no defragging). A SSD with 100% fragmented files is still much faster than a hard drive with 0% file fragmentation.

2. Do not max out the capacity of a SSD with all your crap... I mean important files. The general...
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You can make as many or as few partitions as you want. The two things you should not do are:

1. Do not defrag a SSD. Defragging can improve performance similar to a hard drive if the files are too fragmented. But each sector in a SSD drive can only be written over so many times before it fails and it becomes a bad sector. It is not something to be too concerned about though. The last time I've read stats about possible failure rates of SSDs the conclusion was that a modern SSD should last about 5 to 7 year with normal usage (no defragging). A SSD with 100% fragmented files is still much faster than a hard drive with 0% file fragmentation.

2. Do not max out the capacity of a SSD with all your crap... I mean important files. The general consensus is to only use 80% - 90% of the actual capacity and leave the remaining space empty. This give the SSD spare sectors to use in case bad sectors do start to appear.
 
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