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PSA: stop blowing out customer drives with that partition alignment shortcut
I've fixed 5 machines this month in Austin where someone used the quick align tool and the SSD ended up with 4K sectors straddling the partition, killing performance by half. Do the math once with the actual drive specs, it takes 90 seconds, and has anyone else seen this get worse since the newer imaging tools rolled out?
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emma_wells831mo ago
Nothing like watching a drive that should hit 500 MB/s crawl along at 200 because somebody trusted a button labeled "quick." It takes less time to look up the sector size than it does to argue with the customer about why their brand new machine feels slower than the old one. Half the time the alignment tool doesn't even read the drive specs, it just guesses, and the guess is wrong just often enough to ruin your whole afternoon. At this point I trust a napkin and a calculator more than most of these imaging suites.
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