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Old 12-25-2013, 10:14 PM   #3045
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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp View Post
It's fine but you will want to overprovision it (only format up to 240GB, leave the rest unallocated). That was a really bad design choice by them, as SandForce isn't designed to give access of all the flash to the user.\



There is a reason all other SandForce drives have 7% less space.. that's how it was designed to be used.
thank you for the explanation, but im still not clear as to why it's a bad design? if other sandforce drives have 7% less space, and this adata allows access to all the flash, wouldn't that be better?
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