My PC broke and i'm starting to build a new PC and I want to transfer my SSD over to my new PC with all of the space free on it. I have completely wiped the SSD from disk management but it shows that my SSD is only 420gb when its a 500gb SSD. Is there a way to get the other 80gb back or am I stuck with only the 420gb?
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How Do I Get Full Space Back On SSD?
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lumineZ
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Its called Over Provisioning
It increase the lifespan of the SSD by setting aside free space that you have on the SSD.
You can ofc adjust that free space used up or down. But to be honest. I would leave it alone at 80GB.
It increase the lifespan of the SSD by setting aside free space that you have on the SSD.
You can ofc adjust that free space used up or down. But to be honest. I would leave it alone at 80GB.
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lumineZ is exactly right - - - the user capacity is correct after deducting the space reserved for over-provisioning.
See this article on the Kingston website:
https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/overprovisioning
See this article on the Kingston website:
https://www.kingston.com/en/ssd/overprovisioning
From everything I've seen, overprovisiong is already taken into account in the advertised capacity. So if a drive is advertised as a 500 GB drive, it should have 500 GB of storage available to the user (although the OS will report size in gibibytes, which would be ~466 for a 500 GB drive).
I have a 240 GB SSD, and I get all of that space available to me.
I have a 240 GB SSD, and I get all of that space available to me.
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Might depend on what kind of disk you have. Neither my NVMe 960evo or MX300 had the space that was listed on the box cause over provisioning.
The 960evo is an 500GB drive and out of the box its at around 450 - 460GB thx to the 10% OP (Over Provisioning) and that is about 46,5GB taken away from the disk.
I added on that so now I am using 163GB as OP simply because all this drive is used for is the OS and a few programs.
My MX300 is supposed to be a 1TB drive but out of the box it was at 860 - 910GB (cant recall right now what it was)
By "out of the box" are you referring to what Windows is reporting as the drive size? Because it sounds like the reduced sizes you're seeing have less to do with OP and are instead related to how an OS represents storage space. Drive capacities are typically advertised in gigabytes (GB), which is 10^9 bytes. Computers report storage space in gibibytes (GiB), which is 2^30 bytes. So 500 GB = 466 GiB. 1000 GB = 931 GiB.
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That I know. Its with that in mind + the OP that was set as default from when I installed the drives = the amount of space that was free.
I did not pay mutch attention to OP when I built this computer so it was only after when the system was up and running I was wondering myself where the missing GB where. And so I came to find out it was down to OP.
Sure I can remove OP but that is not something I would recommend to anyone.
I did not pay mutch attention to OP when I built this computer so it was only after when the system was up and running I was wondering myself where the missing GB where. And so I came to find out it was down to OP.
Sure I can remove OP but that is not something I would recommend to anyone.
@lumineZ but that means you'd be nowhere near 10% OP as you said, more like 1-2% for your EVO and 3-4% for your MX300. Whereas if the OP has a 500 GB drive (466 GiB) and only 420 GiB available, that would mean it has 11% OP, which I'm skeptical of.
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Discuss discuss discuss...
Please show us a screencap of exactly what is showing you this, so that we are all on the same page.
Also, if that is NOT Disk Management...a screencap of that as well.
Anything else is just random discussion.
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