You may have overlooked something. If the first partition is aligned, all other partitions are aligned too. The alignment is by multiples of 4 - but in KB. Once you have a partition of many MBs sitting in the front, then the next partition easily makes the multiple of 4KBs.
Example: the first partition is the little 100MB partition and that is aligned (e.g. with 1024KB). The next partition starts at 101 . but that is MBs. Convert that to KBs and you can easily divide it by 4.
Sorry, I'm just not knowledgeable enough to comment. After running CrystalDiskMark and receiving poor results, I srtated poking around the forum and found the alignment reference in the SSD benchmark thread. I bought Paragon after running the verification from an elevated command prompt and finding neither of the Drive 0 partitions were aligned. I ran Paragon for the first time and it only aligned the smaller 231MB partition (why I don't know because both partitions were slated for alignment in Paragon). After the intial pass, I ran AS SSD and received this result, which was not impressive:
I again opened and had Paragon analyze the drive and it reported the data partition was not aligned, so I ran it again. The results you see in my previous post as "aligned" is the AS SSD benchmarks after this second pass by Paragon.
This is a bit strange and must be a specialty of the Paragon tool. Was it this Paragon tool or the one that aligns after the partitions are already established.
The one I linked I used several times and always got a neat alignment.
I bought the Paragon Alignment Tool 3.0.
WHS, I have used Paragon migrate over a dozen times and it has never failed. You can migrate to a raw drive and it will migrate and align it perfect.
Mike, I've never used the alignment tool, but it may be one of the tools that will only do 1 partition at a time.
I was responding to the problem of the moment and simply bought the alignment tool to resolve.
