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Thread ID: 143131	2016-11-26 23:08:00	Partitioning SSD drive	mzee (3324)	Press F1

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1429245	2016-11-26 23:08:00	A friend has a H.P. Mini convertible note book, running Windows 10 Home, on a Solid State Drive. The 'C' partition is 450GB which makes it difficult to back up, and leaves no room for a Data partition. I want to shrink 'C' to 65GB, and create a 'D'ata partition with the un-allocated space. Are there any precautions to be taken with a SSD, other than the normal procedure for Hard Drives with Part Edit?	mzee (3324)
1429246	2016-11-26 23:39:00	Splitting disks like this is a bit old school and results in wasted space, especially important on a small disk like your friend's. My SSD is 256GB and has data (photos and docs) on it and the disk image is 66GB (Macrium Reflect compresses its backup as disk space shows 92GB). A TB backup disk is not troubled by this sort of image size. And with imaging, you're covered for OS meltdowns as well. But, in answer to your question, there is no difference in partitioning SSD's.	linw (53)
1429247	2016-11-26 23:53:00	Why is it a problem Backing up the data ? You don't back up the complete drive (450GB) only data or image the drive ( Data/OS & Programs) , and most imaging software will only backup used space and also give options to compress, saving even more space. Looking at Partitioning -- if its only to move data out of one partition in case of some sort of infections then yeah, OK, but if its thought its safer in case of other problems you couldn't be more wrong. Meaning if you partition the drive, and that drive fails, guess where your data is ? on the failed drive. You want to have a separate drive in that case to locate data.	wainuitech (129)
1429248	2016-11-27 03:36:00	Why is it a problem Backing up the data ? You don't back up the complete drive (450GB) only data or image the drive ( Data/OS & Programs) , and most imaging software will only backup used space and also give options to compress, saving even more space. Looking at Partitioning -- if its only to move data out of one partition in case of some sort of infections then yeah, OK, but if its thought its safer in case of other problems you couldn't be more wrong. Meaning if you partition the drive, and that drive fails, guess where your data is ? on the failed drive. You want to have a separate drive in that case to locate data. I didn't get a chance to look further into the Imaging. I tried with AOMEI backupper & it estimated 2 hours, instead of the usual 20 minutes max. I will have another look when the owner can spare it, the estimate will probably drop once in its stride. The Data on my computers is on another partition which is backed up to Google drive.	mzee (3324)
1429249	2016-11-27 05:39:00	Splitting disks like this is a bit old school and results in wasted space, especially important on a small disk like your friend's. ^^ this, don't bother, there's no real good reason to do-so.	Chilling_Silence (9)
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