2. Yes, drives ship with spare sectors and the SSD controller automatically allocates them as needed to both level wear and call spares into use when original cells fail.
3. Not necessary.
4. That depends on the operating system. Some partitions can be resized and moved; others cannot.
All SSDs, as all hard drives will eventually fail - and they do eventually wear out. However, though SSD technology is constantly changing, most models from the top tier of manufacturers (Samsung, Intel, Crucial) are robust -- and of course, as is the case with hard drives, your best defense against a drive failure is your most recent backup.
Thank you for the quick reply. So then for my use, over provisioning an SSD won't offer any sort of noticeable performance boost. Sounds like my best move would be to buy the laptop with the 128 GB drive, then upgrade to a quality SSD and be done with it and enjoy the ride.
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1. Probably not; see #2
2. Yes, drives ship with spare sectors and the SSD controller automatically allocates them as needed to both level wear and call spares into use when original cells fail.
3. Not necessary.
4. That depends on the operating system. Some partitions can be resized and moved; others cannot.
All SSDs, as all hard drives will eventually fail - and they do eventually wear out. However, though SSD technology is constantly changing, most models from the top tier of manufacturers (Samsung, Intel, Crucial) are robust -- and of course, as is the case with hard drives, your best defense against a drive failure is your most recent backup.
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Thank you for the quick reply. So then for my use, over provisioning an SSD won't offer any sort of noticeable performance boost. Sounds like my best move would be to buy the laptop with the 128 GB drive, then upgrade to a quality SSD and be done with it and enjoy the ride.