On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:02:35 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
wrote:
Allen Drake wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:19:06 -0400, "Tom Del Rosso"
Cloning can create a new partition instead of using the existing
one, depending on what cloning tool you use.
Exactly and depending on how you have that application set up. All in
all I have been satisfied with the speed of my SSDs as I gradually
replaced the HDDs and had no idea of the alignment issue until I
stumbled on some threads related to that subject. I plan on a clean
install of Windows 7 to new SSDs sometime soon. That will take care
of any misalignment.
The biggest gain I see in speed are the systems that actually have
SATA III motherboards.
I mean you can follow the instructions to create an alligned partition and
it's all for nothing. I think Acronis can do what you want, although I'm
not sure how to verify that other than by dumping the MBR before and after
the clone to see if the table changed.
You can use the DISKPART command to determine the alignment.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415
https://www.equallogic.com/uploadedF...R1012_v2-0.pdf
http://lifehacker.com/5837769/make-s...ve-performance