When do you need SSD alignment in Windows 10/11?

SSD alignment mostly refers to SSD partition 4K alignment because SSD adopt the smallest 4K sector in file system to save data. If the smallest 4K allocation units are not always aligned with the 4K pages in SSD, the performance of SSD could be affected. 4K alignment also is widely used in advanced formatted mechanical hard disk. 4K aligned partition better serves operating systems and offers higher performance. One may need to align Windows 10 after clone.

There are some signs that show your SSD alignment not OK. For instance, known small file occupies large disk storage in data partition, or system programs and applications run slowly even if you just upgrade hard drive to SSD. If things continue this way, the number of unnecessary writing operations will increase dramatically, which shortens SSD lifespan eventually.

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