I'd tried moving the partitions around but without a 1024 block partition to butt up against they always remained unaligned. I had some more fun trying to shrink sda1 which resulted in me toasting ...

If you moved your operating system from a mechanical hard drive to a solid-state drive (SSD), the partitions may not be aligned properly. If this is the case, you’ll notice slower performance, but ...

Not having the partition aligned will potentially cause excessive read/write cycles, and slower performance. WHS has now puked all over the EARS drive, deemed it unfit to store content and claims its ...