Would there be any issue if I partition my SSD?

It is the only drive in the PC (64bit W7) I built. I noticed that Giveaway of the day is offering Easeus Partition Master Pro today which kind of spawned the question. I would use it to store an image(s). I'd still keep some on an external HD but one on a partition would be convenient. I have a laptop with Easeus that I configured years ago like that. Of course I could partition it with Windows too. Anyway, any issues? Thank you!

 

ratchet,

Make sure the partitions are 2048 sector aligned. I have 12 primary partitions on my SSD.

 

Hi Brian - can I just ask why specifically 2048? My SSDs are all offset 1024.

Thanks

philby

 

philby,

Is 1024 the sector offset from the start of the HD? How many partitions do you have? How did you create the partitions?

 

The 1024 is from start of disk...I think!
Partitions are as below, created via DiskPart from (Macrium) WinPE disk.
Thanks for responding...

 

philby,

A typical Diskpart command is....

create partition primary align=1024

.... but the 1024 refers to KB and as a sector is 512 bytes then 1024 KB is 2048 sectors. Otherwise called MB alignment.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929491

The main purpose of aligning a partition is to align the clusters for maximum performance. For example, say a partition offset is 25303040 then that partition is 2048 sector aligned (25303040/2048 = an integer).

 

Right, you've straightened me out Brian! I should have read your original line more closely:

Make sure the partitions are 2048 sector aligned. I have 12 primary partitions on my SSD.

Thank you!

philby