What is page alignment?

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Is this something I have to be aware of when creating a partition or when formatting it as NTFS? What allocation unit size is best for a Win7 system disk?

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Some useful resources:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=107126

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/kevin_kline/archive/2008/10/08/how-to-improve-application-and-database-perf...

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This is helpful. Thanks