Alignment Tool Professional

The problem of inevitable degradation of the disk subsystem performance caused by misaligned partitions dates back to the nineties. From being a headache for IT administrators who wanted to get the most out of disk arrays, it’s become crucial for all of us with appearance of SSD (solid state drive) and ultra high-capacity hard drives. Moreover, the growing popularity of virtualized systems has aggravated the situation even more.

Obviously misalignment of logical partition sectors and actual physical sectors leads to redundant read/write operations, which is critical for overall performance, and with SSD, for its lifespan as well. With our PAT 4.0 Professional (Paragon Alignment Tool) you can forget about these problems once and for all. It will help you align partitions on physical and virtual disks according to internal device’s geometry without affecting the on-disk data.

Attempt to align encrypted disk or volume with Paragon Alignment Tool results in guaranteed data loss in 100% of cases!
To align encrypted volumes decrypt the disk or volumes first, then perform alignment with Paragon Alignment Tool. Once alignment completed, re-encrypt the volumes or disk.

• The only tool that aligns partitions in a single operation
• Guarantees safety for the on-disk system and data
• Boosts performance of disk subsystems up to 3 times
• Significantly increases endurance of SSD drives
• Aligns partitions inside virtual containers and the host
• Aligns partitions on ultra high-capacity 4K hard disks
• Tunes alignment operation behavior
• Automatically restarts alignment in case of emergency
• Windows 8 support
• Faster alignment engine
• Bootable WinPE-based environment* to align partition without installation of MSI package
• Improved possibilities to recover volumes that were accidentally lost during alignment