Do SSD drives slowdown when near full?

[bldegle2]

typically you don't want to fill your SSD to more than 75% capacity or it will slow down a bit, garbage collection needs a bit of room to work right...that way the nand cell usage can be spread over the whole drive so one part of the drive will not die before another

regular spinning HD's (especially the main OS drive.partition) shouldn't exceed 85% or you will run into fragmentation/defragging problems....

nature of the beast...

I have been through a couple of SSD's, some worked, others just were bad from the start. When they work right, insanely fast...they still have some maturing to go, but they are getting much better....

Just make sure you backup regularly, when they go it can be quick and painful to your data...

You can reduce the size of your install by eliminating Hiberfil first thing after OS istall(SSD's can have problems with Hiberation)...there are some other thangs you can do to reduce your OS footprint...My win7 Ultimate 64 bit only takes up about 20 gigs of the 120GB drive I use for OS only, 10,000rpm, 600GB WD spinner as secondary drive for everything else....

laterzzz.....