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About 4K Alignment

4K alignment means that the hard disk is formatted according with the definition of 4K sector. And data are written into this disk according to the rule of 4K sector. So, if there is 4K alignment, there is also 4K misalignment. 4K is unaligned because in the previous specification before NTFS6.x, the point (which data are written into) locates actually between two 4K sectors – even if the smallest amount of data are written in, two 4K sectors must be used.

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Obviously, this has great impact not only on writing speed but also on reading speed. In the case of 4K misalignment, we must modify it to 4K alignment. Otherwise, for SSD, this will not only greatly reduce data writing/reading speed, but also result in unnecessary writing times in SSD.

MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional Edition is a very outstanding disk management for 4K disk. With it, you can use it to manage your 4K disk as well as traditional disk with powerful features, for example, create partition, extend partition, merge partitions, change cluster size, align partition, manage dynamic disk and so on.

1.Definition

4K misalignment is associated with a partitioning technology, called Advanced Format.

Advanced Format is a name for new data structure format adopted by IDEMA.

With the development of the times, hard disk capacity is continuously to be expanded. This makes the previous definition of 512 bytes per sector no longer reasonable. So, 512 bytes per sector is changed to 4096 bytes per sector. This is now called 4K sector.

With NTFS has become a standard hard disk file system, the default allocation unit (cluster) size of NTFS file system is also 4096 bytes. In order to make cluster correspond with sector, namely to align physical disk partition with computer logical partition and ensure reading/writing efficiency of hard disk, there is 4K alignment concept.

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Each sector of traditional disk is fixed for 512 bytes. For the new standard 4K sector disk, in order to ensure its compatibility with OS, hard disk manufacturers also simulate sector into 512B sector. Then, there will be the case in which 4K sector misaligns with 4K cluster.

So, we must use the way of 4K alignment to align disk simulating sector to 4K sector. 4K alignment is that we can align hard disk sector to analog sectors whose number is integer times of 8, namely 512B * 8 = 4096B. 4096 bytes are 4K. When you format hard disk partition with Win7 system, hard disk sector is aligned to the integer times of 2048 sectors by default, namely 512B * 2048 = 1048576B = 1024KB. This is also called 1M alignment. And it meets 4K alignment.

As long as the value is the integer times of 4096B, it is 4K Aligned.

2.Principle

The size of each sector of the current computer traditional mechanical hard drives is generally 512 bytes.

When you format hard disk with a certain file system, the file system will compile hard disk sectors, tracks and cylinders. It will determine the number of sectors in a cluster for quick storage. For example, a cluster size of the commonly used file system NTFS in Windows is defined as 4096 bytes.

But because boot sector of NTFS partition takes up a track (63 sectors), the real file system is behind the 63 sectors. Then we can calculate the size of the pre-63 sectors: 512B * 63 = 32256B. We can also calculate the number of clusters according to the default cluster size: 32256B / 4096b = 7.785.

Each cluster will include two physical units and take up latter 512 bytes of the first unit and 3584 bytes at the front of the second unit. In this way, when file system reads and writes a certain cluster, hard disk needs to read and write two physical units. This will reduce reading and writing speed and shorten hard disk service life.

At present, some hard disk partition software is used to spare several sectors behind 63 sectors in MBR in order to align each 4096B cluster of file system. This avoids excessive reading and writing operations while improves reading and writing speed and lengthens service life.

3.Method

How to Achieve 4K alignment

If you partition with the system built-in tool in Win 7 or later versions, the partition after being formatted will be 4K aligned (2048 sectors) by default. So, users don't need to do any setup. If you still use XP system, then you will depend on third party tool to achieve 4K alignment.

Here, we suggest using the professional partition manager – MiniTool Partition Wizard and its Align function.

Summary :

What is Linux? Do you know how to create Linux partition in 4K hard drive in Windows? Why do you need to create Linux partition on 4k hard drive? This post will show you the solutions with a step-by-step guide.

What Is Linux?

Linux is a Unix-like and mostly POSIX-compliant computer operating system (OS) which is assembled under the model of free and open-source software development and distribution. Moreover, you can get it via internet or other ways and its source code can be modified.

Linux is full free, and it is fully compatible with POSIX1.0 standard which can make you run Windows procedures via corresponding simulators. Moreover, Linux provides an X-Window system which is similar to Windows graphical interface. Linux has many different versions and they all use Linux kernel.

And Linux can be installed in many kinds of computer hardware equipments, such as panel computers, routers, video or game consoles, table top computers, and table top computers. Therefore, due to the advantages of Linux, Linux is widely used.

Why to Create Linux Partition in 4K Hard Drive

When mentioned creating Linux partitions in 4K hard drive, you should know what 4K hard drive is and why to create a Linux partition. Hard drive industry is facing a great revolution that the traditional sector size is changed from 512B to 4096B. In fact, 4K hard drive refers to the disk of which 4K sector and 4K cluster are aligned, namely 4K alignment which is specialized at SSD and the advanced formatted hard drive.

Consequently expanding sector size from 512B to 4096B will greatly improve hard drive performance as well as hard drive space usage rate. Therefore, you choose a 4K hard drive to make full use of disk space and improve computer performance.

Thus, do you know how to create Linux partition in 4K hard drive under Windows?

How to Create Linux Partition in 4K Hard Drive under Windows?

As to Linux creation partition, you can take a piece of professional partition software to create Linux partition in 4K hard drive. Thus, MiniTool Partition Wizard is strongly recommended.

MiniTool Partition Wizard is designed to optimize partition and disk use with its powerful features.

So create Linux partition in 4K hard drive under Windows, you can download MiniTool Partition Wizard Free to continue.

And we will show you how to create Linux partition in 4K hard drive under Windows with step-by-step guide.

Step 1: Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard

1. Install MiniTool Partition Wizard and launch it.
2. Enter the main interface of MiniTool Partition Wizard.

Step 2: Create partition Linux under Windows

1. Select the unallocated space on the hard drive.
2. Right-click the unallocated space and choose Create from the context menu.

Step 3: Set partition parameters

1. In the popup window, please set some partition parameters.
2. The File System of Linux partition should be Ext. And here we set the file system as Ext4 as an example.
3. Click OK.

Step 4: Confirm the changes

1. Preview the changes.
2. Click Apply to confirm the changes.

When the process is finished, you have created Linux partition under Windows. And you can install Linux to this partition.

Bottom Line

In conclusion, do you know what the Linux is and how to create Linux partition in 4K hard drive under Windows?

And if you have any better solution to create Linux partition under Windows, you can share it on the comment zone.

And if you have any problem of MiniTool Partition Wizard, you can contact us via the email [email protected] and we will reply to you as soon as possible.