On Mar 5, 2012 3:37 AM, "Alex Schuster" <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > > Grant writes: > > > Just to confirm, starting at block 2048 is OK? > > Yes, if it's divisible by 8, it's okay. That's because 512 * 8 = 4096, so > every 8th 512-byte block starts on a 4096 block boundary. > > Now I have a related question: My new seagate Barracuda > Green 2TB ST2000DL003-9VT166 drive has 4096 bytes per sector, but uses > something that is called SmartAlign(TM) [*]. Seagate says that there are > no performance impacts even when the partitions are misaligned. This > would be good, because I completely forgot about this when creating > partitions, and I would like to keep it as it is now. Has anyone heard > about this? Can I trust Seagate that what they say is correct? > > [*] www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/de.../mb6101_smartalign_technology_faq.pdf > > Wonko >
Your URL got munged there, I can't download the pdf. Rgds,
