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SSD: How to Optimize Your Solid State Drive for Linux Mint and Ubuntu
- labawi 7y ago> Alignment is not necessary anymore > ..tools automatically align filesystems and partitions to the optimal 4096 byte page size Isn't 4k still very small? A quick search mentions 8k and 16 page sizes. AFAIK SSD has structures with MBs of alignment. From a quick test, fdisk seems to align to 1MiB. It should say manual alignment not necessary. > Modern SSD's usually have some built-in unallocated space for overprovisioning Were there SSDs in common use that didn't have overprovisioning? Article doesn't seem particularly precise, but is a nice overview.