Thanks Brian! Currently with Win7 installed it is using 40G. That is without anything added. Windows sure has bloated. It probably will just be a toy.... but like you said I might like it so much I may use it more... I was looking at the 240G SSD. I also read the manufactures usually reserve some space for bad sectors that are not included in the capacity of the drive. Maybe I'll make it dual boot. I only have 4G of RAM and do not want to spend any more on it.... so using VirtualBox might not be an option... maybe... On 2016-03-05 17:15, Brian Cluff wrote: > On 02/29/2016 07:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: >> From what I understand, SSDs that are often-written wear out much >> faster if they're more than 80% or 90% full. A good reason to go >> larger rather than smaller. > > I was going to mention this as well in my reply but I guess I forgot. > > I always buy more than what I need as well. It's hard for the wear > leveling to spread out writes to unused areas of the drive when the > drive is near full. > > Brian Cluff > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss