Hello,
I've got a new SSD for my system. I am wanting to install win7 on it.
I've read and heard from others that partition alignment on these
drives is critical to getting optimum system performance. I've read
that gparted can do this, align on zero boundaries? might be it?
I've got a grml disk that I can boot live and have it do the gparted,
is it simply a matter of creating the partition with gparted setting
it's type to ntfs then using an fsck.ntfs to format it? I then want to
do my win7 unattended install. I've got an xml file but it erases all
partitions, and formats, which I get would defeat my gparted, I'm
wanting to not do this and just have the unattend file install on to
the previously created ntfs partition. But that also creates a small
boot partition, so I'm wondering do I have to make this?
If anyone has done this please let me know, i'd like to get the max
performance out of my drive and have read that improperly partitioning
can lead to extra ware on them. This is my first ssd.
Also, how do you separate, or do you separate, programs from system
data when using ssd's?
Thanks.
Dave.
