A few questions about data alignment

[IAmAndre]

Hi,

 

I'm building a PC and I decided to buy an HDD then upgrade to a SSD later. I'm currently using a laptop on which I have a Linux partition on a HDD and a Windows partition on a SSD, and they both share a partition on the HDD. Both hard drives are pretty old so I'm about to buy a 1tb Seagate Barracuda on which I will clone my Linux partition, and I will use the SSD too on the desktop. Then in a few months I'll buy a large SSD and clone both partitions to it.

My current SSD is a Samsung SSD RBX and my HDD is a Toshiba MK 3275 GS. These are pretty old drives.

My questions are about alignment. I know that most SSD manufacturers ship their SSDs with cloning tools allowing to check the alignment and optimize the SSD but these tools work on Windows only.

- I can see that the Barracuda uses 4096 byte sectors, does that mean cloning a partition from the Baracuda to an SSD would not cause any alignment issue?

- Does that mean that I will have alignment issues when cloning the Linux partition from my Toshiba HDD to the Barracuda?

- Are there equivalent tools allowing to check alignment on Linux partitions? Otherwise I will just use Clonezilla.

 

Thanks

[tharvey]

I would use Clonezilla... If you select -rescue in the options it will skip all of the bad sectors.  Clonezilla is what we use at my shop and it does an amazing job.  Its cloned some really bad drives for us and saved our customers a lot of heartache.

[IAmAndre]

I would use Clonezilla... If you select -rescue in the options it will skip all of the bad sectors.  Clonezilla is what we use at my shop and it does an amazing job.  Its cloned some really bad drives for us and saved our customers a lot of heartache.

 

Take a look at this link. Apparently, Clonezilla doesn't solve alignment issues. Has anyone tried one of the alternatives?