> > > This old alignment usually only reduces performance on a 4k sector HDD.
Here is output from topic starter's fdisk: === Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 63 1953520456 1953520394 931.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT === >4096 >63 It seems that we have an unaligned advanced format here, isn't it?