I have a Samsung 840 Pro 512Gb SSD.
The Samsung Magician software recommends:
"Over Provisioning (OP) helps maintain performance and lifespan.
A certain amount of disk space will be allocated for use by the SSD controller.
Note: using a raw partition may cause damage to your data."
Trying to follow the recommendation, I allocated 60 Gb for OP by shrinking its partition accordingly.
This left me with 60Gb of unallocated space.
I opened up Samsung Magician and found that the "Note: using a raw partition may cause damage to your data." warning was still there.
I interpreted the warning to mean that the 60Gb space allocated for OP, is not properly prepared and needs to be formatted; so that is what I did.
Opening up Samsung Magician again I noticed that the warning never disappeared, but is still there. :confused:
At this point I have a suspicion that this warning is not meant as an indication that my OP is not set up properly :(, but is meant to be a general warning to make sure your SSD primary partition is formatted and not raw.
That would of course make no sense either, because your SSD primary partition could not cause damage to your data because being unformatted, no data could ever get onto it to be damaged.
I am totally perplexed. :confused::confused:
Maybe Samsung's instructions are deliberately designed to be ambiguous :rolleyes:, so that people in their mid 70's cannot use their products? ;);):o
Can someone explain what I am doing wrong if anything?
The Samsung Magician software recommends:
"Over Provisioning (OP) helps maintain performance and lifespan.
A certain amount of disk space will be allocated for use by the SSD controller.
Note: using a raw partition may cause damage to your data."
Trying to follow the recommendation, I allocated 60 Gb for OP by shrinking its partition accordingly.
This left me with 60Gb of unallocated space.
I opened up Samsung Magician and found that the "Note: using a raw partition may cause damage to your data." warning was still there.
I interpreted the warning to mean that the 60Gb space allocated for OP, is not properly prepared and needs to be formatted; so that is what I did.
Opening up Samsung Magician again I noticed that the warning never disappeared, but is still there. :confused:
At this point I have a suspicion that this warning is not meant as an indication that my OP is not set up properly :(, but is meant to be a general warning to make sure your SSD primary partition is formatted and not raw.
That would of course make no sense either, because your SSD primary partition could not cause damage to your data because being unformatted, no data could ever get onto it to be damaged.
I am totally perplexed. :confused::confused:
Maybe Samsung's instructions are deliberately designed to be ambiguous :rolleyes:, so that people in their mid 70's cannot use their products? ;);):o
Can someone explain what I am doing wrong if anything?