<div dir="ltr">I believe for the 4K sectors it is very important. The WD EAS drives showed that improperly aligned partitions gave horrible performance. Here is a <a href="http://superuser.com">superuser.com</a> article on it that explains the issue:<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://superuser.com/questions/393914/what-is-partition-alignment-and-why-whould-i-need-it">http://superuser.com/questions/393914/what-is-partition-alignment-and-why-whould-i-need-it</a><br></div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Bruce Ediger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bediger@stratigery.com" target="_blank">bediger@stratigery.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, David L. Willson wrote:<br>
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> # Create a new, cylinder-aligned, primary partition, the full size of the disk<br>
> sudo parted --align cylinder /dev/sdc mkpart primary 0% 100%<br>
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Is cylinder-aligned important for performance any more? I was under<br>
the impression that LBA meant that heads/cylinders/platters might<br>
even be faked information, given out by the disk software to fool<br>
any old stuff that might ask for it.<br>
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