Guys, why does Windows 2008/2008R2 align drives that are less than 4Gb to 65536 and all drives larger than 4GB to the 1MB boundary (1048576)? It's not uncommon on virtual machines to present small drives for holding logs etc. Also common when using
SANS. I'm wondering what the decision process was behind this? I understand of course the reason to align to a 4K boundary due to modern driver sector size.
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