Paragon Alignment - custom offset ???

I would like to align my SSD to 2048. Paragon says that current alignment is ok and doesn't let me change anything.

Samsung support told me to change it, but without Paragon's tools I need to reformat ssd.

Are there any command line or hidden options to tell Paragon Alignment tool to listen to my wishes too

Thanks !

 

Re: Paragon Alignment

being curious; what is the advantage of changing the alignment and why is Samsung support saying it should be done?

 

Performance. If drive is not aligned correctly, you loose performance. Check OCZ Technology forums, there is lots of info about that.

 

petar_b,

Are you sure the partition is misaligned? If the Paragon Alignment Tool says they it is aligned correctly, then it most likely is. What have you done to the drive to make you or Samsung support believe it is misaligned?


Partition alignment is critical for optimal performance, and misalignment can cause noticeable performance delays.

 

Matt,

Currently offset is some unusual number 103424 K, so in order to have faster 4K read times I was suggested to try changing align.

Currently 4k read is 5MB/s and then benchmark (AS SSD) slows down so on next test it crashes.

I am willing to try to increase performance by playing with alignment, but I need a tool for that that doesn't make me delete/backup/restore partition...

So, any chances to use Paragon Alignment for that ?

Thx for answering ...

PS:
DISKPART> list partition

Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 100 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Primary 119 GB 101 MB

 

I used PAT from a pe3 boot.wim to realign my o/s partitions, it worked perfectly - no need to delete/restore partitions.

You should always have a backup at all times - not because this is dangerous, but because it is good practice to always have a backup image.

 

maybe i'm a fool
but i can find this tool in Hard Disk Manager 2010 Pro (and in Winpe cd) i mean Paragon Alignment Tool

what's wrong?
thanks

 

mantra,

Go to My Account-My Downloads (https://www.paragon-software.com/my-account/products/downloads.htm). There will be 2 new installations available in section Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 Pro:
Add-on: Paragon Alignment Tool 2.0 - Windows Installation Package 32 Bit (English)
Add-on: Paragon Alignment Tool 2.0 - Windows Installation Package 64 Bit (English)

 

how can i add them to winpe cd ?

thanks

 

but is there a short tutorial how use the Paragon Alignment Tool?
a video on youtube , a short page

 

The Alignment tool is very straight forward to use. In the GUI version that comes with Partition Manager 11, your partitions will be display with the legends indicating if you need to align or not.

 

thanks it's included

thanks!
for Hard Disk Manager 2010 Pro is an add-on ?
29$ ?

or is included ?
i have Disk Manager 2010 Pro and the winpe last built

 

It should be in your account already - you don't need to buy it separately.

 

again how can i integrate it

thanks
i would like to receive the Paragon_Tommy 's answer
because i don't know how integrate it in the winpe cd!

i can integrate in the main program installed under windows , i can make a linux base cd
but not a winpe!!

thanks again

 

Re: again how can i integrate it

Hi mantra,

See here: 67

 

can i do it?

thanks
and i can make a winpe cd
cool
can i include Backup & Recovery 10 Suite & Hard Disk Manager 2010 Professional & total commander ?

 

Re: can i do it?

Hi,

There's no point in including BR10 Suite , because you have all the functions already when you include HDM10 Pro.

If I had Total Commander , I would be able to figure out how to include it - but I don't have that program .

FreeCommander is included automatically, which is just as good.

There are some extra nice surprises, too.

Try it and see - it only takes a few minutes.

 

Re: can i do it?

are u sure bb10 has the same feature of hdm10 pro?

total commander has a secure file copy


thanks a lot

 

Can you send the log data from PAT to Paragon Support Team via the ticket form: https://www.paragon-software.com/my-account/support/sendRequest.htm

 

BTW, your partitions are aligned to 1MB correctly as Diskpart shows. Did you show this Diskpart output to Samsung?

 

I tried the PAT and it said my partitions were aligned when they are actually not

However I am using a hardware RAID 5 with a stripe-size of 64 kbyte. The raid contains several 2TB 4096byte sector advanced format drives.

I have horrible transfer rates which I did not have when the raid was built from smaller disks. (15-50MByte/s).

It is my understanding that I need to align the partitions in the raid not just to the 4096 byte harddrive sectors but also to the file cluster

size and to the stripe-size to make the raid fully aligned?

The stripe-size is of course a multiple of the 4096 byte sector so just aligning it to the stripe-size would make the partitions aligned from the bottom up.

My problem is that the PAT does not support custom alignment schemes?

I have tried to align them manually myself by calculating the required offsets, but none of paragons tools (or any of the competitors) allows me

to move a partition to a specific partition offset? I would like to specify it with an accuracy down to the sector (even byte would do) not MB.

Using win 7 with a normal NTFS boot partition and a large GPT-partition.

Can anyone help me on this one?

A nice feature in PAT would be to be able to select partition alignment schemes, maybe under an "advanced alignment options" with legends

explaining the settings a bit (2048 for SSD, 4096 for advanced format and other larger for different RAIDs)?

 

Not sure if this will help you on your system but you might want to check this out.

http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index...g-Windows-Partitions-Without-Losing-Data.html

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...lign-boot-partitions-without-losing-data.html

 

@ michaelgotberg

Diskpart can help you achieve what you want.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766465(WS.10).aspx

Look at the "Create Partition Primary" Command.

Panagiotis

 

Not sure how diskpart can help if you already have a lot of data on the drives.

 

Imaging and backing up, deleting everything and recreating the partitions starting from scratch is much faster and safer than aligning multiple partitions that contain lots of data.

Panagiotis