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| System Name | LenovoⓇ ThinkPad™ T430 |
|---|---|
| Processor | IntelⓇ Core™ i5-3210M processor (2 cores, 2.50GHz, 3MB cache), Intel Turbo Boost™ 2.0 (3.10GHz), HT™ |
| Motherboard | Lenovo 2344 (Mobile Intel QM77 Express Chipset) |
| Cooling | Single-pipe heatsink + Delta fan |
| Memory | 2x 8GB KingstonⓇ HyperX™ Impact 2133MHz DDR3L SO-DIMM |
| Video Card(s) | Intel HD Graphics™ 4000 (GPU clk: 1100MHz, vRAM clk: 1066MHz) |
| Storage | SamsungⓇ 860 EVO mSATA (250GB) + 850 EVO (500GB) SATA |
| Display(s) | 14.0" (355mm) HD (1366x768) color, anti-glare, LED backlight, 200 nits, 16:9 aspect ratio, 300:1 co |
| Case | ThinkPad Roll Cage (one-piece magnesium frame) |
| Audio Device(s) | HD Audio, RealtekⓇ ALC3202 codec, DolbyⓇ Advanced Audio™ v2 / stereo speakers, 1W x 2 |
| Power Supply | ThinkPad 65W AC Adapter + ThinkPad Battery 70++ (9-cell) |
| Mouse | TrackPointⓇ pointing device + UltraNav™, wide touchpad below keyboard + ThinkLight™ |
| Keyboard | 6-row, 84-key, ThinkVantage button, spill-resistant, multimedia Fn keys, LED backlight (PT Layout) |
| Software | MicrosoftⓇ WindowsⓇ 10 x86-64 (22H2) |
Now, I'm sure this will come off sounding a bit noobish, eheh...(I never used an SSD in my life...yeah, sounds weird, right?)
I've read the news about Crucial launching their new M500 line and went to read a review to see how that 960GB model behave.
Then I noticed something, while I was reading about the chips used in these drives.
These drives use 128Gbit Micron 20nm 2bpc MLC NAND, which have a page size of 16KB.
Does that mean that, when formatting partitions, the allocation size (not sure if this is the name given in linux-based OSes) should be set to 16KB as well?
Up until now, I know one can format with allocation sizes bigger than the drive's page size/bytes per sector (on HDDs anyway), but the default for NTFS is 4KB and that isn't configurable when installing Windows, for example...unless you use another method to format the drive prior to the OS installation.
So would there be a problem setting an allocation size smaller then the drive's page size?
(performance hindrance, data fragmentation, those kinds of things...)
I've read the news about Crucial launching their new M500 line and went to read a review to see how that 960GB model behave.
Then I noticed something, while I was reading about the chips used in these drives.
These drives use 128Gbit Micron 20nm 2bpc MLC NAND, which have a page size of 16KB.
Does that mean that, when formatting partitions, the allocation size (not sure if this is the name given in linux-based OSes) should be set to 16KB as well?
Up until now, I know one can format with allocation sizes bigger than the drive's page size/bytes per sector (on HDDs anyway), but the default for NTFS is 4KB and that isn't configurable when installing Windows, for example...unless you use another method to format the drive prior to the OS installation.
So would there be a problem setting an allocation size smaller then the drive's page size?
(performance hindrance, data fragmentation, those kinds of things...)
