


HI I am trying to learn my self how to connect a Dell R720 server with a LTO 7 tape library. Can someone advise and guide me with the best practice? because to begin with I have these questions.1. Tape library Data Storage, Backup & Recovery.The article can be found on, search for "Speed up your SSD by correctly aligning your partitions" My question is this: Has anyone ever heard of this "partition offset" with SSD's and is it worth the hour or so it took to realign? I didn't run any benchmark testing to get any real numbers, but the boot time sure did see much faster. I check the offset again and it came out even. I followed the instructions on to use gparted to realign the partition.


The performance seemed a bit slow, so I decided to give the partition offset a check, sure enough it came out to be something like 120.5. The number should be evenly divisible by 4096. look for your SSD on the list and find "Partition Starting Offset". To check to see if the offset is correct, run MSINFO32, go to COMPONENTS>STORAGE>DISKS. The logic was this: HDD partition offset is 63 blocks, SSD partition offset is 64 blocks. They mentioned that you had to align the partition on the SSD after the copy to realize the full speed of the drive and to prevent unnecessary wear. I was watching an episode of Tekzilla last night and they were discussing cloning an HDD to a SSD.
