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Fusion drive bad idea?
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What you're not supposed to do is fill your system/boot drive. In the case of a fusion drive, it's the combined space of the SSD and HD you don't want to fill.
To rephrase with a fusion drive it doesn't matter where the free space is just as long as you don't fill it when it's the boot drive.
I am not sure what you read where or are really asking about, but I think you're worried over nothing.
The SSD reserves space internally for garbage collection, block reallocation etc. This is why they come in sizes like 120 or 240 gb instead of 128 or 256 - those two sizes already have 8gb and 16gb inaccessible to the user, and allocated for GC and re-allocations already. Enterprise class drives tend to have more reserved.
Some people like to maintain MORE free space thinking that they can let the SSD have more blocks for this, but it is not required.
It remains to be seen how effective that practice is, as the SSD already has a set amount reserved whatever you do with the device.
in short: you can't entirely fill an SSD and screw up the GC, etc - because the drive doesn't let you see all the space on the physical device.
Some people like to maintain MORE free space thinking that they can let the SSD have more blocks for this, but it is not required.
It remains to be seen how effective that practice is, as the SSD already has a set amount reserved whatever you do with the device.
in short: you can't entirely fill an SSD and screw up the GC, etc - because the drive doesn't let you see all the space on the physical device.