Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT)

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Yesterday, I downloaded the Paragon SSD Alignment Tool and whitepaper from their website http://www.paragon-software.com/business/partition-alignment/ http://www.paragon-software.com/business/partition-alignment/ . Yesterday it was free today they charge for the PAT. After cloning my Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M160G2GC for backup I ran the PAT. No problems encountered. Ran Intel SSD Management Tool then AS SDD benchmark http://www.alex-is.de/PHP/fusion/news.php http://www.alex-is.de/PHP/fusion/news.php. Small performance improvement.

Don't skip taking a backup before trying anying like PAT.

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Below are the results from my previous post's

AS SDD benchmarks http://www.alex-is.de/PHP/fusion/news.php http://www.alex-is.de/PHP/fusion/news.php.

Column 1 shows results before alignment

Column 2 shows results after alignment with Paragon SSD Alignment Tool

http://www.paragon-software.com/business/partition-alignment/ http://www.paragon-software.com/business/partition-alignment/ .

Both column 1 and 2 are with controller in IDE mode.

Column 3 is results after AHCI mode enabled.

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http://www.paragon-software.com/landing-pages/WhitePapers/paragon_alignment_tool.html http://www.paragon-software.com/landing-pages/WhitePapers/paragon_alignment_tool.html for free whitepaper and download. Page says offer ends today.

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Well I tried PAT and it said my SSD and HDD were already optimised! well done Windows 7 X64

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I run a multi-drive multi-partition XP Pro system. I also run VMWARE Virtual Machines running Win NT, Win XT, Win Server 2003, Vista, and Win 7. I have used PAT to allign all my partitions. Aligning partitions helped improve performance of both applications and Virtual Machines on both SSDs and HDDs. I have found that partition alignment make a significant performance improvement for all the VMs, expecially noticable in reduced boot time.

PAT shows all the partitions in a very nice GUI.