SSD: Bad alignment after clean install. Please help!

[mhildeb]

Hi,
I recently bought an SSD (Samsung 850 PRO -265GB) and the place I bought it from offered to do a clean install of my OS (Windows 7, 64-bit).
Everything is working fine. However, after running AS SSD Benchmark, that program told me, "15406335 K - BAD". I understand that my SSD is not aligned, which might result in a performance drop. I found the freeware program "MiniTool Partition Wizard" that offers to align all partitions on my SSD (There 4 partitions: 1) no name: FAT (39 MB) which is hidden - what is it for?
2) Recovery: NTFS (14 GB)
3) C: : NTFS (199 GB): that's where my OS and the program are
There are another 23.85 GB (logical) unallocated which I reserved for the SSD with Samsung Magician.
"MiniTool Partition Wizard" offers me to align all three partitions. I understand that involves also Move and Resize.
Question: Is it safe to do it? Will the OS boot after "Move" and "Resize" to align the SSD?
Should I actually care about alignment? My overall AS SSD Benchmark score is 9665 (4K-64Thrd: Read: 1201,83 MB/s, Write 7025,48 MB/s
Any help is appreciated!!
Thanks a lot!
Marcus

 

[popatim]

Before you mess with your drive make a backup of it. If anything goes wrong you have an easy fix. If you dont have a backup drive then please get one.
Its fairly safe but you never know...

Never trust your important files to just 1 device. Always keep an extra copy on a 2nd or even 3rd device because as we all know, everything breaks and you dont want to lose things like your families photos & videos.

 

[Kewlx25]

This page has information on partition alignment

http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/using-diskpart-and-wmic-to-check-disk-partition-alignment/

Windows defaulted to a 1024KB alignment, which is good, and formatted with 4KB clusters.

 

[ArtPog]

1. There should be NO need for any "alignment" of a brand-new Samsung 850 Pro SSD. This is a new SSD, yes? A new SSD out-of-the-box does not need any kind of manipulation. It should be ready to go as is.
Frankly I think your best course of action at this point is to return the SSD to the vendor from whom you purchased the SSD for either a full refund or a replacement (brand-new) drive.

2. I take it your vendor installed the Win 7 OS on your PC. You were provided with a Product ID and the system has been Activated by Microsoft, yes?

3. With respect to any "partition alignment" there should be no reason to "align" partitions following a clean install of the OS.

 

[Kewlx25]

1. There should be NO need for any "alignment" of a brand-new Samsung 850 Pro SSD. This is a new SSD, yes? A new SSD out-of-the-box does not need any kind of manipulation. It should be ready to go as is.
Frankly I think your best course of action at this point is to return the SSD to the vendor from whom you purchased the SSD for either a full refund or a replacement (brand-new) drive.

2. I take it your vendor installed the Win 7 OS on your PC. You were provided with a Product ID and the system has been Activated by Microsoft, yes?

3. With respect to any "partition alignment" there should be no reason to "align" partitions following a clean install of the OS.

Align has nothing to do with configuring your SSD and everything to configuring your file system. You want you file system to be aligned with your harddrive, otherwise every 4KB cluster you write will write to 2 4KB blocks on your harddrive. Same thing for reads. Every 4KB cluster you read will require reading in 8KB from the HD. You want your 4KB cluster to be aligned with your 4KB blocks.