On Mar 5, 2012 3:15 AM, "Grant" <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [snip] > >> HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64, > >> 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that the > >> hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1] > > > > <snip the rest> > > > > From what I recall of looking at that toy's specs, it's running on an > > SSD, so it becomes even more important, performance-wise, to have > > things aligned properly so any one write doesn't cause two full erase > > blocks to be cycled. The 1MB alignment is, if I recall, a balance > > Microsoft struck as the midpoint between multiple hardware vendors to > > work well on any of them... raid arrays, SSDs, advanced format hard > > drives with 4k sectors on-disk, etc. > > Just to confirm, starting at block 2048 is OK? >
No problem. You'll just be shortchanged of almost 1MiB. Nothing to lose sleep over, IMO. The most important thing is to make sure that *all* partitions begin on sectors divisible by 8. So, if you're going to set up multiple partitions, eyeball their start sectors carefully. Rgds,
