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"Ben Cooper" wrote:

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Help us understand:

Why do you want an OS disk which is larger than 2TB ?

I am more focused on figuring out a way to align the sectors on the OS
partition prior to loading the OS. I do not wish a performance decrease on
the OS partition OR on the data partition.

"Edwin vMierlo [MVP]" wrote:

Is this a physical host or a virtual host?
What RAID hardware?

Generally, you would do that from another host. You could create two
partitions, load to the second, align the first partition, then do a new
install to the first partition, but that hardly seems worth it.

When left with poorly performing boot partitions due to vendor supplied
autobuild programs, I usually use this strategy to improve performance.

1. move the page file to another aligned partition with a 4K allocation
unit size.
2. move the system temp directory to another partition.
3. move data directories to another partition.

If all you have left is system and program image files on the boot
partition, they are read infrequently and only written when you apply
patches. Most of you IO happens in the page file, the temp directory and
application data directories. You'll get quite a bit of mileage out of just
moving them.

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For the OS partition, you will have to do this from another host,
for additional partitions, you can do it from the machine already running.