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how can I increase endurance of X25-M by slightly lowering it's capacity?

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

On another forum (http://c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5993-Somewhat-stable-Solid-State.html http://c0t0d0s0.org/archives/5993-Somewhat-stable-Solid-State.html) I've read this:

"Intel says that you can increase endurance of the X25-M by 3.5X by lowering its capacity slightly".

Anyone knows if it's really the case and how exactly it's done?

Thanks.

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idata
Esteemed Contributor III

When partitioning the drive (after a fresh HDDERASE), don't set the main partition to use all the space available. Leave a few GB of unused space on the drive, and it will use this for better wear leveling.

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

So you can't just shrink the partition by a few GB using the Disk Manager snap-in?

Why do you have to reformat from scratch? You don't want to do an OS reinstall unless you have to after all.......

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Great. Thanks. I'll try that - but what's the suggested value of "few GB" for 80GB and/or 160GB drives?

idata
Esteemed Contributor III