We're about to hardware upgrade our exisiting Sql 2008 Server. So, I'm checking out some best practices with regards to hardware, like .. RAID levels for the HD and making sure the TempDB is on a different disk than the DB's, etc.

I then stumbled onto these two posts here and here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd758814.aspx. They chat about making sure our Windows 2008 servers have the correct partition size.

I'm a bit confussed after I read those posts. THey mention in various places that..

Windows Server 2008 aligns partitions by default.

So, if i wish to have partition sizes of 64K, I don't need to worry about this? Remember, I'll be doing a fresh install of Windows Server 2008 .... and I can't remember seeing any option during the install, when we partition disks, for partition sizes.

Can anyone shed some light, in layman's terms, please?