I'm sure I'm not the only one who has noticed that Oculus patches require the full amount of the install free, rather than just the additional space for the patch and some working space like Steam or any sensible patching system. So if a game is 30GBs and needs a 2 megabyte patch, Oculus Home wants 30GBs free to install it.
This is nonsense. Fix this already. Those of us using SSDs for our games don't have a lot of space to constantly be freeing up to maintain large install games like The Unspoken or Wilson's Heart.
Also Over Provisioning just lets your SSD work at a decent pace while at max capacity but it leaves a ton of partially filled blocks as it writes this way
Standard manufacturing OP is only about 7-9% of the drives actually max capacity.
It will in no way help a drives performance at max cap and your drives performance will suffer when you start filling it to what is given to a consumer to use.
While its perfectly fine and your drive will operate if you do so understand that you are only slowing yourself down.
The point isn't to look at the numbers and say it's not performing as fast when it's over 20-25% full, the question is, is it actually noticable? Because I don't see a difference in my gaming, between the drive at 10% and the drive at 85% full. I have 3 850 evos.
If less works for you go for it but I wouldn't go much less then 20% if you are using your drive for anything that puts a lot of info on and off of your drive.
For me with the 3D scanning and printing 25% free is good. If you do anything along the lines of CAD it would also be needed.
In the future when MMO's start comming out for VR platforms and they will because of the revenue they pull in and the attraction for such games you might need to free up room or get a bigger drive. Only thing there is once you go past 250 or so gb you get severe diminishing returns on the speed added space gives a SSD. Still a 1tb SSD outperforms a HDD anyday of the week.
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