is partition alignment just for ssd? if not, is there any advantage for non-ssd? i've heard of the paragon alignment tool..doing it.. though prob not free and don't know if it's good. Only plain old ...

I've read here and there that to get better performance out of SSDs, one method is to align its partitions with diskpar(t). But does this work for all flash-based media? I tried to realign a partition ...