Samsung 840 250 not 100% aligned after partitioning

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Series 840 250 GB (non-pro):
NAND erase block size: 1536kb
NAND page size: 8kb

I used the calculator here, http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/other/157

And all 3 were good.

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Then I decided to chop it up about 60/170 with Acronis disk director.
I reran the benchmark and I see the

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Should I be concerned? I see only a minor difference in them.
I'm not particularly keen on reinstalling everything so soon.
 
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Tweaking is horribly over rated. 98% of the time it's not necessary and many of those tweaks will actually cause more problems than they are said to solve. Time to nuke that OS installation and start over.


Nothing to be concerned about. Most OS based partitioning tools are aware of when they are partitioning SSDs and will align the partitions accordingly. Problems tend to occur when partitions are migrated from an HDD to an SSD without realignment.
 


Tweaking is horribly over rated. 98% of the time it's not necessary and many of those tweaks will actually cause more problems than they are said to solve. Time to nuke that OS installation and start over.
 
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Ehh only a day and a half lost. At least I got all the installer apps on the side.
Oh well.
But would it still be wise to realign now and create both partitions back to back via disk part like I initially did?
And what should the command be for 2 partitions? approx 60gb and remainder 170~.
 


Delete all of the partitions and let the Windows installer do the partitioning for you. Just pick a size that's approximately half of the available capacity and it will align it for you
 

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Somethings I've always wondered, is there a way to run a virtual machine off a physical drive to do stuff like configuring, driver install, app install, etc. And then when ready, change hdd boot order in bios and good to go?
 


It is certainly possible to run virtual machines off of dedicated physical drives (VMWare Workstation allows this) but even though the drive is dedicated to the virtual machine the VMM still treats it like a container which means that there will be a filesystem with a .vhd file in it which in turn contains the virtual hard drive for the virtual machine. This container mechanism avoids certain permission issues that may arise. There may be another VMM around which allows the drive to be used natively, but I'm not aware of what they are.
 

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Reinstalled this morning, did drivers quick and teamviewer to at least get cracking while at work.
I noticed there was a newer IRST drive on the intel site than the one I got off asus, P8p67 pro.
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It seems it's detecting as ATA and SCSI. Benchmark was a little lower initially, but i reran the samsung optimizer and then the score was back up in the same range.
Is the Ata/scsi thing a problem? Worth installing older IRST and switching drivers or just leave as is?
 


The latest RST is fine. Make sure that you don't accidentally install the RST Enterprise drivers.
 

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Alls good. Ill leave as is for now. I've seen this before on other OS installs. I usually like the cleaner name description instead of the mash of ATA ans scsi.
I have 4 hdd's currently connected and all report like this.
Also I noticed before it was showing the first 4 of the firmware, DXT08B0Q and now it shows the last 4.
Ahh silly me, it appears that installer I used was for the RAID IRST drivers. I'll hit up the AHCI when I get home and hope nothing blows up.