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Is my OCZ SSD aligned correctly?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 20265834 views
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I have an OCZ Agility 2 SSD with 40 GB of space. I use it as a system drive in Debian Linux ("Squeeze") and in my opinion it's really fast. I've read a lot on aligning partitions and file systems, and I'm not sure if I succeeded in aligning the partitions correctly. Maybe the SSD could be even fast…

Error Output

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40018599936 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders, total 78161328 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
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The default alignment in order to fully ensure compatibility with both 4K sectors and SSD cell boundaries (typically 128 or 256 or 512K) would be 1MByte into the disk. So to me your disk looks to be properly aligned, both with your flash-erase cell …

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