[sorry if this appears in the wrong place in the thread, most of it has
expired off my local spool]

I came across this IBM Developer Works page while looking for something else.
It's a clear and concise description of how partition misalignment can impact
on drive performance. The graphs provided show at a glance just how bad this
can be. The writer benchmarks three different drives with various
filesystems, with some surprises in the results.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linux-on-4kb-sector-disks/

Note the emphasis in the article is on AF (4k sector) hard disks, but the same
principles apply to SSDs.

TNP: don't bother replying, I won't see it and care even less.

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