How to fix disaligned clusters in Wildfire and other SSD with Paragon Alignment Tool

[DJ_Alex]

Hi guys, I'm an IT engineer and a happy owner of Patriot products. Got 2 SSD and 3.0 USB pen drives. I have a question for you all.

I ran AS SSD Benchmark (a free and very useful proggie to check your SSD) and it shown that i got 31k - BAD something like disaligned clusters in my Wildfire SSD and that cuts the performace up to 30%. This happened because I migrated my win 7 X64 from a normal SATA disk to SSD using acronis true image home 2011 utility for HD cloning and this will happen to all users that migrate from old disk to new SSD without formatting the system.

I found that there is a tool that costs 30$ called Paragon Alignment Tool 3.0 and they told me that will fix my problem. Do I have any free alternative from Patriot Memory? What should we do to fix this?

Here is the paragon tool: http://www.paragon-software.com/home...ion-alignment/

Thank you very much.

[DJ_Alex]

Here is another site bout this tool: http://www.pcworld.com/article/23527...u_need_it.html

If you guys know a free solution or did already tested this tool and fixed your problem, please let me know. thanks

[Patriot_VL]

We do not recommend cloning mechanical drives to SSD. If you have to you can use Gparted to realign the SSD.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/#

You can use 512kb alignment.

[DJ_Alex]

Thank you very much. I will download and try to align. I have another question: What are the consequences of having the SSD desaligned? Only 30% of lost performance or there are another problems? Thanks

[Patriot_VL]

The major issue in cloning software is that they all align the drives differently after cloning from spinning disk to ssd's. This results in huge performance issues. Now if you clone the whole partition the performance loss is not that great but each case can be different. Because of this vary results we try to recommend to our customers that they do not clone drive unless they really have to and use a realign tool.

[DJ_Alex]

ok, thanks. I will have to realing this disk but first I have to see a day without work because it will tak like 10 hours lool

[Patriot_VL]

10 hours? What is the capacity of the drive you are cloning from?

[DJ_Alex]

240GB. I read somewhere that partition alignment has to reboot system and takes long time because it moves every bit in the disk to the right place. Read here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/23527...u_need_it.html

So this operation should run during night and first, people MUST backup all doing a cloning of disk, just in case something goes wrong... I'm waiting for a second Wildfire to clone this disk and then align everything

[Patriot_VL]

240GB. I read somewhere that partition alignment has to reboot system and takes long time because it moves every bit in the disk to the right place. Read here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/23527...u_need_it.html

So this operation should run during night and first, people MUST backup all doing a cloning of disk, just in case something goes wrong... I'm waiting for a second Wildfire to clone this disk and then align everything

Oh ok I thought you were speaking of just cloning was going to take that much time.

[eod]

Hello,


New to this thread. Are misaligned sectors a problem for Journaled file systems?
I tried running paragon alignment tool on my mac formatted file system and it said it was not supported.

Thanks.