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>> HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64, |
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>> 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that the |
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>> hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1] |
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> From what I recall of looking at that toy's specs, it's running on an |
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> SSD, so it becomes even more important, performance-wise, to have |
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> things aligned properly so any one write doesn't cause two full erase |
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> blocks to be cycled. The 1MB alignment is, if I recall, a balance |
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> Microsoft struck as the midpoint between multiple hardware vendors to |
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> work well on any of them... raid arrays, SSDs, advanced format hard |
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> drives with 4k sectors on-disk, etc. |
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Just to confirm, starting at block 2048 is OK? |
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- Grant |