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Paragon Alignment Tool
Just a little information about this tool.
My C: drive was not correctly aligned. It wasn't a big deal. Everything worked fine.
But, being a geek like the rest of you, I decided to try PAT and see if it really works.
First off, it's like $30. Not that much, but it's a one time tool.
It comes with a .exe file to create it's own rescue disk. Basically, it puts everything back to the way it was before it started. Thankfully, I didn't need it.
The application installed with no problem at all, and it does allow you to do an analysis on all connected drives, including external USB drives. It graphically shows your drives, and by color, shows which, if any need alignment. Green-good, Yellow-bad.
When you select to align, it reboots to a Pre-windows full (low res)screen showing the progress of the alignment.
My 120gb SSD took approximately 20 minutes to process.
It rebooted the PC, and opened the application and reported it as successful.
I had no other partitions on this drive, hidded or otherwise.
I ran Crystal Disk Mark before and after the alignment.
After reports nearly a doubling of the 4k and 4k-64thrd writes, and an almost 33% increase in the 4k reads.
Overall, I'd give it a thumbs up :)
Last edited by michaelst; 07 May 2011 at 17:02.