How much free space should be on an SSD to prevent a slow down?

[chorizogaming]

Hello, so i've recently got an 250gb Samsung SSD that i've got Windows10 & 4-5 large games installed onto, there is around ~26gb free space currently. Would that be enough free space to prevent any sort of slow down?

[Septevar]

Rule of thumb is use up to 75%, you wont really notice slow down on an SSD (compared to HDD) though as they do permanantly keep a section of your SSD empty so it never gets completely full.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

SSD don't suffer badly like HDD does so as long you don't fill it up, you shouldn't have any problems. Normally you want 10% of the SSD to be free.

[IkusaTakuma]

SSDs in general don't suffer from long load times XD.
My 250GB SSD takes a little while to load, but not because of the SSD (it's because my laptop is as close to dead as a working laptop can get, won't start up on the first try)
My 500GB SSD on my main rig is flawless, computer boots up in no more than 15 seconds, and boots games in under a minute.

As long as you keep about 5-15% of your SSD free, you shoudn't have any loading problems, at least in my experience.

[SimicEngineer]

Samsung's own drive management software supposedly has 10% unused space as a default setting for this. Ideally, that space would be trimmed/discarded and not even assigned to a partition, but as long as you're running a modern SSD-aware OS (which Windows is starting with Windows 7), leaving it partitioned but unused is probably good enough.

[SoldierScar]

Originally posted by SimicEngineer:

Samsung's own drive management software supposedly has 10% unused space as a default setting for this. Ideally, that space would be trimmed/discarded and not even assigned to a partition, but as long as you're running a modern SSD-aware OS (which Windows is starting with Windows 7), leaving it partitioned but unused is probably good enough.

That could be truth, my 850 EVO 250gb has only usable 230gb of space, from what i read it's good to leave 25% of free space, but i don't believe i have to leave 60 gb of free space there, what do i pay for?

[Revelene]

Just leave enough for provisioning and you'll be fine. The bigger the drive, the less space you need to reserve.

Windows will let you know when you are reaching capacity via a red bar in the my computer menu.

[Keith]

Originally posted by SoldierScar:

That could be truth, my 850 EVO 250gb has only usable 230gb of space,

No this is the same reason that when you buy a "1TB" drive, it is just over 900GB formatted. It's the difference between a GB and a GiB. Disk manufacturers use the former (which are a bit smaller so you get more of them...); Windows reports the space using the latter even though it calls them "GB". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

[SoldierScar]

Originally posted by Keith:

Originally posted by SoldierScar:

That could be truth, my 850 EVO 250gb has only usable 230gb of space,

No this is the same reason that when you buy a "1TB" drive, it is just over 900GB formatted. It's the difference between a GB and a GiB. Disk manufacturers use the former (which are a bit smaller so you get more of them...); Windows reports the space using the latter even though it calls them "GB". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

Oh right, i totally forgot about this.