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Best Offset for XP?

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Hi,

Just a very quick question.

I have an Intel X25-V coming today that will be used with XP Pro.

I have read that for SSD drives you need to change the offset as XP sets it to an outdated 63kb which causes severe fragmentation of the drive.

But there is conflicting info all around as to what is best to set the offset to.

It seems it is either a choice betweem 64k, 512k, or 1024k.

Windows 7 sets it at 1024k, but I am seeing discussions for OCZ SSD's saying use 64k or 512k for XP.

As its an Intel drive I have I wanted it from Intel what would be best for XP with this intel drive. So which should I set the offset as?

Thanks.

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idata
Esteemed Contributor III

You are right but the performance with a misaligned SSD will decrease much faster in the long run