Can You Change The Sector Size On A Ssd Drive

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Gain Optimal Operation by Changes to SSD Physical Sector Size

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Content Type Maintenance & Performance

Article ID 000006392

Last Reviewed 12/06/2018

These Intel® Solid Land Drives support a 512 byte and 4096 byte (4K) physical sector size. Virtually operating systems provide optimal system performance when using the larger physical sector size.

The post-obit firmware releases fix the default to 4K, which is a change from the default setting of previous firmware versions.

Intel® SSD Information Center S3700 Series with Firmware 5DV10270
Intel® SSD Data Center S3500 Series with Firmware D2010370

Note

Changing the physical sector size does not result in data loss, but Intel recommends that y'all back up data earlier this performance.

Instructions for changing the physical sector size

If your Intel Solid Land Drives are gear up at the 512 byte concrete sector size, you tin can change them to 4K. To change the physical sector size, follow these steps:

Go to the Download Center, click your operating system, and download and install the Intel® Solid-Country Drive Data Center Tool.
After installing the Data Middle Tool for your operating system, enter the following command: isdct.exe show intelssd. This stride identifies the bulldoze or drives on your computer. Instance: intelssd Ten (0, 1, two, ).
Enter the control to alter the wanted Physical Sector Size:
- To change Physical Sector Size to 4K type isdct.exe set up -intelssd Ten physicalsectorsize=4096
- To change Concrete Sector Size to 512 (512e), type isdct.exe set -intelssd X physicalsectorsize=512