On 17/10/2016 21:30, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 17/10/16 20:07, John Rumm wrote:
On 17/10/2016 12:34, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 17/10/16 11:31, John Rumm wrote:

It makes far more sense to ensure the partitions are aligned so that
the
OS allocation unit is on a 4K boundary (which is the default action
on a
modern OS anyway)

My point is that that is what the SSD firmware will in fact do.

No matter where the partition boundary is.

Could you provide a link to a manufacturers documentation for this since
I have not yet seen any SSDs that claim to be able to remap misaligned
partitions?


There are no 'misaligned' partitions.

Just partitions.

OK, so if you look at the Intel document from 2014[1], they explain why
misaligned partitions cause performance impacts on their drives of that
time. You have claimed that that information is out of date, and its no
longer an issue. Could you point to an authoritative source that
justifies that claim?

Or are you claiming that Intel drives are just way behind the current
state of the art, and other makers drives don't suffer the problem, but
then Intel ones still do? In which case it sounds like a strong
marketing hook the other drive makers would use. Could you point to
some documentation reflecting this?


[1]
http://www.intel.co.uk/content/dam/w...tech-brief.pdf


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Cheers,

John.

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