On 05/11/12 10:35, hannah commodore wrote:

On 05/11/2012, at 10:07, Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> wrote:

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There are some tools around that'll benchmark different block sizes to work out the appropriate value, too. However note that this issue only seemed to be a *big* issue for earlier generation SSDs.. the current ones seem to cope pretty well regardless.

What are these utils? Have you used them? I always have difficulty aligning blocks when installing new machines, and would love to get more insight into the operation and its effects

It's been a little while since I used them, but yeah, I have. I think this was the tool I used: https://github.com/bradfa/flashbench