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What is partition alignment and why whould I need it?

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Mar 15, 202673595 views
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What is partition alignment and why? Does it have something to do with the 2048-sector gap between two logical partitions?

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Newer hard drives are being manufactured to utilise 4 kilobyte sectors rather than the conventional 512-byte sectors. This is done to make more efficient use of the physical space on hard drives as for every sector there is a small batch of error co…

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