Vista/Win7 SSD Alignment - Yes or No?

[Griff805]

I completely disagree with you. Alignment is important (vs misaligned) and the results will likely not show in a synthetic benchmark but will show in real world performance.

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...T558_WH08.pptx

Have a read at what Microsoft say.

"Misaligned partition can degrade device’s performance down to 50% caused by read-modify-write"

There was a single statement about performance of aligned vs unaligned. Not a whole lot of evidence to go with it, or even an explanation of what that statement means exactly. What kind of performance is he talking about? Where'd he get the 50% from? Howcome non-JMicron ssd don't seem to need to be aligned for max performance? Have any X25 owners experienced an increase in performance with alignment?

I think there needs to be some more in depth research into this with more sources than just a single slideshow from Microsoft.