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about to buy my first SSD drive
I'm looking at the Patriot Pyro 120gb drive.
I have traditionally separated windows and applications and data on to three separate partitions.
So, I'm considering creating 2 partitions on the SSD Drive. An 80gb partition for windows and the rest for applications. Data will stay on my 1TB HDD.
I always do clean fresh installs. When I install windows I have typically backed up all data, deleted the partitions and "CLEANed" the drive, then recreated partitions and reinstalled fresh. But I've never had to worry about blocks, pages and alignment.
From what I've read this is important for SSDs.
If I create the first partition via windows install DVD it creates the 100mb recovery partition at offset 1,048,576. Which is good.
But I want to create an 80gb drive with the resulting offset also being aligned.
So what size should I create the partition? I normally use 82025, as this creates the 100mb partition and a C: partition of exactly 80gb.
If 82025 x 1024 / 4096 is exactly 20506 have I got and aligned partition?
If there are any good links explaining this stuff would you be so kind as to point me in the right direction.
thanks
Tanya