Quote Originally Posted by Christopher View Post
Over provisioning might be more necessary just for keeping performance consistent over time. 20 to 28 percent is somewhat normal for an enterprise drive, so that will give you more endurance and better steady state performance to boot. The 512GB would really be a 480GB as the Crucial uses about 7% spare area. So really anything below that as additional area would just be gravy. I can't really say what kind of performance degradation happens to 8 drives together over time, but I imagine over the course of a year it could get pretty messy, and just going to 14% percent OP could stop quite a bit of it from happening. That's not my department though, perhaps CT could elaborate.
Wow, it is hard to count the number of mistakes and bad advice in this one paragraph!