https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/bom-dia-tenho-um-ssd-intel-540s-120gb-gostaria-de-saber-se-ele/m-p/13380#M4049 <P>PBeen, </P><P>Intel(R) Solid-State Drives come pre-configured with 7% to 10% over-provisioning space.</P><P>This is beyond the advertised drive capacity and is not visible to the end user. For example: 550GB - 7% (38GB) = 512GB.</P><P>As a result, it is not necessary for you to manually over-provision their Intel(R) SSDs.</P><P>Regards,</P><P>Esteban C</P><P>Intel Customer Support Technician</P><P>A Contingent Worker at Intel</P> Thu, 24 Oct 2019 23:41:28 GMT Esteban_C_Intel 2019-10-24T23:41:28Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/bom-dia-tenho-um-ssd-intel-540s-120gb-gostaria-de-saber-se-ele/m-p/13378#M4047 <P>Segue abaixo uma imagem do SSD-Z e informa que o Over Provision está em 0,0%. Fui informando que no SSD da samsung no software deles pode configurar, mas no da Intel não mostra essa opção, já vem de fabrica?</P><P><SPAN class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="ssdintel.png"><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="image"><img src="https://community.solidigm.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/82i58BBA4FF9AB8AB90/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="image" alt="image" /></span></SPAN></P> Wed, 23 Oct 2019 18:15:44 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/bom-dia-tenho-um-ssd-intel-540s-120gb-gostaria-de-saber-se-ele/m-p/13378#M4047 PBeen 2019-10-23T18:15:44Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/bom-dia-tenho-um-ssd-intel-540s-120gb-gostaria-de-saber-se-ele/m-p/13379#M4048 <P>Hello PBeen, </P><P>Thank you for contacting the Intel Communities. </P><P>I would like to research this matter to give you a proper answer on whether or not the Intel(R) SSD 540s Series support over provision or not. </P><P>Please allow me some time to do my research and get back to you. </P><P>Note: Please be aware the support language is English only. </P><P>Regards, </P><P>Esteban C</P><P>Intel Customer Support Technician</P><P>A Contingent Worker at Intel</P> Thu, 24 Oct 2019 01:26:09 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/bom-dia-tenho-um-ssd-intel-540s-120gb-gostaria-de-saber-se-ele/m-p/13379#M4048 Esteban_C_Intel 2019-10-24T01:26:09Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/bom-dia-tenho-um-ssd-intel-540s-120gb-gostaria-de-saber-se-ele/m-p/13380#M4049 <P>PBeen, </P><P>Intel(R) Solid-State Drives come pre-configured with 7% to 10% over-provisioning space.</P><P>This is beyond the advertised drive capacity and is not visible to the end user. For example: 550GB - 7% (38GB) = 512GB.</P><P>As a result, it is not necessary for you to manually over-provision their Intel(R) SSDs.</P><P>Regards,</P><P>Esteban C</P><P>Intel Customer Support Technician</P><P>A Contingent Worker at Intel</P> Thu, 24 Oct 2019 23:41:28 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/bom-dia-tenho-um-ssd-intel-540s-120gb-gostaria-de-saber-se-ele/m-p/13380#M4049 Esteban_C_Intel 2019-10-24T23:41:28Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/bom-dia-tenho-um-ssd-intel-540s-120gb-gostaria-de-saber-se-ele/m-p/13381#M4050 <P>Good afternoon Esteban.</P><P>I'm waiting, because I really need this information, because as I learned, over provision improves the performance and life of the SSD.</P><P>Other manufacturers like Samsung this function can be configured with the Magican application.</P><P>I'm waiting.</P><P>See you.</P><P><SPAN class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="over.png"><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="image"><img src="https://community.solidigm.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/88i9CEE8E334AF9C431/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="image" alt="image" /></span></SPAN>&nbsp;</P> Sun, 27 Oct 2019 22:10:47 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/bom-dia-tenho-um-ssd-intel-540s-120gb-gostaria-de-saber-se-ele/m-p/13381#M4050 PBeen 2019-10-27T22:10:47Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/bom-dia-tenho-um-ssd-intel-540s-120gb-gostaria-de-saber-se-ele/m-p/13382#M4051 <P>PBeen, </P><P>Please review the answer selected as "Best Answer" </P><P>That contains the information related to your question and how over provision works with Intel(R) SSDs. </P><P>Regards,</P><P>Esteban C</P><P>Intel Customer Support Technician</P><P>A Contingent Worker at Intel</P> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:46:41 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/bom-dia-tenho-um-ssd-intel-540s-120gb-gostaria-de-saber-se-ele/m-p/13382#M4051 Esteban_C_Intel 2019-10-28T21:46:41Z