On 19/10/16 11:13, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , John
Rumm escribió:

I think you are mentally over complicating this.

He just wants to appear clever (and failing)

Its only the SSDs that have the additional complication of life
expectancy reductions / write amplification issues as well

a very good point - partition misalignment will not only reduce the
performance of asn SSD, but reduce its life due to the extra
read/erase/write cycles needed.

This is not a platform specific problem - exactly the same issues can
apply to Linux etc.

Agreed.

was that they way data is physically organised on a flash disk bears no
relation whatsoever to how it is presented logically

which has bugger all to go with partition alignment, which was the original
topic...

And yet you have seen recent documentation from Intel explaining why
this is a problem

oh, but he knows better than Intel, Micron, Samsung...

Well that could be because you are right and everyone else is misguided,
or it could be your basic understanding is flawed somewhere.

I know which I think it is.

Perhaps you should offer your wisdom to the drive makers, because they
all seem to have fallen for it...

Heh.

Here is the alignment tool from WD:

http://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=128&lang=en

Here is the HGST document on the use of their tool:

https://www.hgst.com/sites/default/f..._User_Guide.pd
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Here is the documentation for Seagate's tool / hack:

http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whit...nology_faq.pdf

There's no point confusing the poor dear with facts. He's right and
everyone else, including those in the know like Intel, Micron, etc. is
wrong.


No, you are wrong ,mike. The information you supplied to support your
case is not applicable to SSDS - its about Hrad drives, not solid state
drives.

I didn't think you would stoop that low just to win an argument


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