SSD alignment....

[Old Hippie]

Other than doing an alignment during an OS install I wasn't aware that it could be done any other way. AFAIK it had to be done on a raw drive with no partitions and no file structure.

Today I was alerted to the Paragon Alignment Tool that claims to align partitions on physical and virtual disks according to internal device's geometry without affecting the on-disk data.

I used the forms, downloaded the tools and info, installed the program and ran the tool.

Since it found my OS aligned it wouldn't go any farther but has anyone else tried/used or heard of this tool?

At the very least it seems to be an alignment checker but who's got a bad XP alignment that needs fixed?

 

[KILLER_K]

I use this as it is easy and tells you right away.
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/157

Other info on it can be found here:
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=107126

 

[Old Hippie]

I use this as it is easy and tells you right away.
http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/157

Other info on it can be found here:
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=107126

That's what I used to use to check, but it doesn't repair anything.

 

[Red Falcon]

Nice tool, thanks for the find.

 

[Old Hippie]

Nice tool, thanks for the find.

I'm hoping someone with a misaligned SSD can tell me if it works as advertised.

 

[Red Falcon]

I'd like that too, it came back all green on my results.

Perhaps it would work better if for some reason TRIM were not enabled, such as on older SSDs, or Win XP/Vista.

 

[Old Hippie]

Perhaps it would work better if for some reason TRIM were not enabled, such as on older SSDs, or Win XP/Vista.

Ahhhh it's got nothing to do with TRIM but everything to do with those that have not installed correctly during a fresh install (usually XP) or after using an image to restore the OS.

 

[oldbrave]

If your installing Win 7 on your SSD then you don't have to worry about alignment. Simply use the OS to create the partition and you'll be golden !

 

[Red Falcon]

Sweet, no reason to ever use a SSD on XP/Vista again then!

 

[Old Hippie]

I'm hoping someone with a misaligned SSD can tell me if it works as advertised.

Here's one.

 

[Lateralus]

Funny timing on this thread OH; I was actually looking at that tool earlier today.

What I'm interested in knowing is whether Paragon's free drive backup/imaging program preserves correct alignment when restoring an image to an SSD. I know that's not the topic of this thread, but it's somewhat related...if anyone has used it I'd appreciate the insight. I haven't been able to find anything so far in the documentation.

 

[oldbrave]

The only backup Imaging software that I know first hand will retain alignment when the image is restored is Acronis True Image.

 

[Old Hippie]

What I'm interested in knowing is whether Paragon's free drive backup/imaging program preserves correct alignment when restoring an image to an SSD.

I dunno but since 2 people have had positive results from the alignment tool, there's no need to care.