- Oct 4, 2006
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Today I was running the AS SSD Benchmark and I noticed that there is a warning message saying: "31K BAD" so I googled it and found out that happens due to misalignment in the SSD/HDD sectors or whatever... due to new drives using a 4096 Byte cluster size and the OS telling the SSD/HDD to write 512 Byte clusters (my understanding may be wrong but the whole point is about cluster misalignment)
The solution was to either format my SSD in a low level format or to use the Paragon Alignment Tool which I did, the whole process took about 15 to 20 mins on my 256 GB SSD (I chose the fast method without power failure recovery)
I was thinking this is some gimmick from Paragon to get money but it isn't!
look at the stores for your self!
AS SSD Benchmark with IRST 11.5.0.1207 (Before Alignment)

AS SSD Benchmark with IRST 11.5.0.1207 (After Alignment)

CrystalDiskMark with IRST 11.5.0.1207 (Before Alignment)

CrystalDiskMark with IRST 11.5.0.1207 (After Alignment)

The solution was to either format my SSD in a low level format or to use the Paragon Alignment Tool which I did, the whole process took about 15 to 20 mins on my 256 GB SSD (I chose the fast method without power failure recovery)
I was thinking this is some gimmick from Paragon to get money but it isn't!
look at the stores for your self!
AS SSD Benchmark with IRST 11.5.0.1207 (Before Alignment)

AS SSD Benchmark with IRST 11.5.0.1207 (After Alignment)

CrystalDiskMark with IRST 11.5.0.1207 (Before Alignment)

CrystalDiskMark with IRST 11.5.0.1207 (After Alignment)
