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- <p>If you have a SSD (Solid State Drive) instead of a hard disk, at
- the time this help was written, it was inadvisable to create the
- partitions with this tool because they would not be aligned. The SSD
- would work but with reduced speed and lifetime. Use a partitioning tool
- such as Gparted instead with these partition alignment settings for each
- partition :
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+ <p>Some newer drives are now using 4096 byte logical sectors, instead
+ of the previous standard of 512 byte logical sectors. Due to lack of
+ available hardware, the partitioning tool used in the installer has not
+ been tested with such a drive. Also some ssd drives now use an erase block
+ size over 1 MB. We suggest to pre-partition the drive, using an
+ alternative partitioning tool like gparted, if you own such a device, and
+ to use the following settings:
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- <p>Free space preceding (MiB) : 2</p>
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+ <p>"Align to" "MiB" </p>
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+ <p>"Free space preceding (MiB)" "2" </p>
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- <p>Round to cylinders : unchecked</p>
+ <p>Also make sure all partitions are created with an even number of
+ megabytes.
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