If you’ve been used to aligning your disks under windows 2000/2003, it may be a thing of the past. Evidently, Windows 2008 changes the way volumes are created.
For some background go here and here.
It seems Basic, GPT and Dynamic disks are now aligned on creation at 1 MB, under Windows Server 2008. No diskpar / diskpart commands are needed anymore. You won’t suffer any performance degradation and you don’t need to remember the commands each time. For a refresher, try this post.
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