they do but Samsung uses space one could format and use.
Samsung does have the ability to make a boot disk for secure erase.
not sure if that would work on Crucial or not, probably not. I have
one here I have to erase will probably just use w7 to re format it.
fp
At 12:38 PM 8/4/2014, James Boswell Poked the stick with:
yeah, Samsung offer extra configurability, but they are both
overprovisioning :)
On 3 August 2014 03:14, FORC5 <[email protected]> wrote:
> but crucial does not use space that can be used.
> I do like the sw and it has a function to optimize on OS without trim.
> confusing for these old grey cells.
>
> used to be more fun.
>
> At 06:44 PM 8/2/2014, James Boswell Poked the stick with:
>
>> FYI, the any SSD (Crucial included) has overprovisioning of flash to allow
>> for graceful cell failure management.
>>
>> Samsung expose it in an adjustable fashion, you COULD minimise the
>> overprovision amount, but I'd say it's a very very very bad idea.
>>
>> -James
>>
>>
>> On 2 August 2014 20:22, FORC5 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > kind of figured that, suppose I could clone it off and back.
>> > drive is a Crucial ( I think) need to look at that. I like Samsung
>> except
>> > they use drive space for a OP partition. 10% recommended. bad to loose
>> > space. Do like their sw, Crucial claims they are working on some.
>> > Any after market SW you can recommend ?
>> > Already dl'ed AVG to replace MSE. Not sure what else to do.
>> >
>> > So far have found some win32/trojans according to ESET. scan not done
>> yet.
>> >
>> > hate working on antiques. :-)
>> > thanks
>
>
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