-
1. Re: Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT)
Below are the results from my previous post's
AS SDD benchmarks 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/ .
Both column 1 and 2 are with controller in IDE mode.
Column 3 is results after AHCI mode enabled.
-
2. Re: Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT)
http://www.paragon-software.com/landing-pages/WhitePapers/paragon_alignment_tool.html for free whitepaper and download. Page says offer ends today.
-
3. Re: Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT)
Well I tried PAT and it said my SSD and HDD were already optimised! well done Windows 7 X64
-
4. Re: Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT)
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.
-
5. Re: Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT)
I ran the tool yesterday, I though my sys was running good , but when I ran the tool it said I was 12% off, so I let it do it's thing and I picked a pretty good increase in the read writes, Using ATTO before running my XM-25 G2 160 SSD , Was at 107878 write 258819 read , now after running the tool i'm at 114025 write and 269898 read, pretty good increse.
-
6. Re: Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT)
Beware of using PAT if your windows system drive is other than C!
Mine was D: and after running the aligment tool the system wouldn't boot up. I believe it misconfigured the MBR or/and the windows registry. I have spent the whole day to repair this mess.
Now the drive is correctly aligned but I haven't noticed any speed improvement.
