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    SSD / HDD Alignment made wonders for me!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by AndroidFan, Mar 15, 2013.

  1. AndroidFan

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    Today I was running the AS SSD Benchmark and I noticed that there is a warning message saying: "31K BAD" so I googled it and found out that happens due to misalignment in the SSD/HDD sectors or whatever... due to new drives using a 4096 Byte cluster size and the OS telling the SSD/HDD to write 512 Byte clusters (my understanding may be wrong but the whole point is about cluster misalignment)

    The solution was to either format my SSD in a low level format or to use the Paragon Alignment Tool which I did, the whole process took about 15 to 20 mins on my 256 GB SSD (I chose the fast method without power failure recovery)

    I was thinking this is some gimmick from Paragon to get money but it isn't!

    look at the stores for your self!

    AS SSD Benchmark with IRST 11.5.0.1207 (Before Alignment)

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    AS SSD Benchmark with IRST 11.5.0.1207 (After Alignment)

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    CrystalDiskMark with IRST 11.5.0.1207 (Before Alignment)

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    CrystalDiskMark with IRST 11.5.0.1207 (After Alignment)

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    AndroidFan, Mar 15, 2013
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