Martin K. Petersen wrote:
Modern Windows aligns the first partition on a 1 MB boundary. As far as disks go, initially the plan was to have "legacy" branded drives with 63-sector alignment. But I think that has been abandoned in favor of instant one-time formatting. I.e. you can pick your poison *once* and that formatting will be done in constant time. Any subsequent changes to blocking and alignment will require a real low-level format.
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