Over Provisioning - Samsung MZ-7PC128N User Manual

Over Provisioning

The Over Provisioning menu provides options for resizing partitions on
the disk. The SSD will perform better and last longer if it has free space
available to use as swap space, and this utility will help you set aside
such space by resizing the partitions on your drive. Swap space is used
to perform routine SSD maintenance (TRIM and Garbage Collection) in
the background during idle time, allowing the SSD Controller to prepare
free blocks for the OS to use in the future. Because the SSD performs
best when writing to free blocks, the result is a better user experience
through reduced wait time.
Samsung recommends allocating 7~10% of the total volume of your SSD
for Over Provisioning space. Over Provisioning space is displayed as
unallocated space (or an unallocated partition) in the Windows Disk
Management program. The user can change the amount of space
allocated for Over Provisioning at his or her discretion.
Caution: Magician supports NTFS and raw (unformatted, unallocated)
partitions only.
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