https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/diskpart-align-for-exchange2003/m-p/3642530#M17989 Does anyone know what the "recommended" number is for the align=?? switch for DiskPart.exe is?<BR />I'm building an exchange server which has locally attached storage (not san) and I want to align the sectors but I'm not sure if I should use:<BR />align=64 or align=128 or some other number for HP hardware.<BR />Hardware is DL380 using SA6400 with 4 - 73Gb SCSI drive setup in a RAID1+0. Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:05:03 GMT Joseph Correia 2005-10-05T10:05:03Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/diskpart-align-for-exchange2003/m-p/3642530#M17989 Does anyone know what the "recommended" number is for the align=?? switch for DiskPart.exe is?<BR />I'm building an exchange server which has locally attached storage (not san) and I want to align the sectors but I'm not sure if I should use:<BR />align=64 or align=128 or some other number for HP hardware.<BR />Hardware is DL380 using SA6400 with 4 - 73Gb SCSI drive setup in a RAID1+0. Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:05:03 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/diskpart-align-for-exchange2003/m-p/3642530#M17989 Joseph Correia 2005-10-05T10:05:03Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/diskpart-align-for-exchange2003/m-p/3642531#M17990 Joe:<BR /><BR />See my post to this question in your other thread...<BR /><BR /><A href="http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=962933" target="_blank">http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=962933</A><BR /><BR />Steven Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:44:28 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/diskpart-align-for-exchange2003/m-p/3642531#M17990 Steven Clementi 2005-10-05T10:44:28Z