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What will reduce the life of the drive is overfrequent installation and removal of files / programs.
It explains my point
i will try to open up some space when i got another one
1- the fewer space you have, the more fragmentation (don't come with the BS that SSD isn't affected by fragmentation plz)
2- few space left on SSD means the same few blocks will be constantly re-written and will decrease its life span (eventho lots of SSDs nowadays have quite some sparse blocks, it is still good a practice to avoid)
It's still BS for multiple reasons. First you dont wear out more TBW when your drive is nearly full. Besides that is not what the video tells. On the other hand you not overprovisioning it be default and 3rd you have so much TBW on any newer SSD that even udner heavy non professional work it will be enough for 40-50 years. if you drain out a couple month nobody would care. a couple month of 40-50 years life expectency is still longer then anybody would keep such a SSD.
Having such a low amount of free space can cause problems if its the OS drive
If the drive is Not your OS Drive, then the only issue would be if any game updates require more space than whats available.
That is ok if you have another drive with a linked Steam folder on it.
Thanks for being helpful!
OS SSD's have a point that should not be reached when it comes to low space
You should always try to have more, not just for games but for Windows Updates as well, never know how big they'll be, low space can cause install issues for them.
You can't go by that "keep 10-15% free" non-sense; you have to go by a simple factor of space overall; doesn't matter if it's a 120GB or 2TB; you need at least 30GB free if it's an OS drive. Now for temporary needs, sure you moving things around, testing games, etc. You can go lower than this, but at the end of the day, you WILL require at least 30GB free so the OS can defrag, handle updates, etc. Even though you don't use traditional defrag on SSD, it still needs that room to actually consider it enough to be able to properly move files physically around on the drive, re-build them, etc.
As for the PageFile, just wipe that out entirely by setting it to NONE on C Drive. Then click OK in those 2 windows and then reboot the OS. Then run Disk Defrag and Optimize the drive. When done go and set the PageFile to a safe Min & Max that won't ever change. Like 8192, that is a large enough PageFile for pretty much any typical user's PC or a Gaming PC. The only folks who may need a larger PageFile are pro-workstations
Thanks for the info btw!