Hacking It would be possible defrag NAND?

[OriginalHamster]

Just wondering if it's would be possible, I just check my files with GiantPune NAND extractor tool and I saw how scatered my files are.
Could a defrag help to improve speed? My Wii is getting very slow to show the channels installed.

 

[FIX94]

AFAIK you can't defrag it, and I suppose it would not help at all because it's a flash memory.

 

[DinohScene]

You won't have any speed improvements with it.
Besides it reduces the life of the NAND by unnecessary write cycles.

The same goes for SDD's.
The amount of fragmentation hardly makes a diffirence.

 

[Lucif3r]

No, a NAND isnt affected by fragmentation as such. Main reason a normal HDD gets affected by fragmentation is because the head needs to move a lot more. Solid State chips dont.


edit: bastards, ninja'd by 2 other lurkers ^..^

 

[PsyBlade]

a conventional defrag algorithems will inflict much more harm than good on flash
but under certain circumstances a specialised flash defrag could help, but I don't know the wiis details
the tool would need to be made to fit to the wiis nand anyway and there is none and probably never will be

 

[OriginalHamster]

I wonder why some Wiis are faster, my nephew Wii load the channels in settings menu very fast, mine takes about 11 seconds, even I have few channels installed on NAND, I store my VC/WiiWare in the SD.

 

[FIX94]

I wonder why some Wiis are faster, my nephew Wii load the channels in settings menu very fast, mine takes about 11 seconds, even I have few channels installed on NAND, I store my VC/WiiWare in the SD.

That will come because you may still have the tickets installed, this can slow everything down.

 

[OriginalHamster]

I wonder why some Wiis are faster, my nephew Wii load the channels in settings menu very fast, mine takes about 11 seconds, even I have few channels installed on NAND, I store my VC/WiiWare in the SD.

That will come because you may still have the tickets installed, this can slow everything down.

Probably, I have like 100 titles installed =P

 

[Coto]

Do a format, it's simple.

Build a completely new NAND from scratch, using ohneschwanzenegger.
(grab dead sectors & setting.txt [region,serial, hw strings?] from your NAND backup so you don't have trouble getting WIFI to work once you rewrote the new NAND).
There are various tutorials around here, and once you're done, rewrite the fresh NAND with bootmii.

ps: of course this means you'd have to backup everything, savefiles, wads, etc.

 

[Hielkenator]

Do a format, it's simple.

Build a completely new NAND from scratch, using ohneschwanzenegger.
(grab dead sectors & setting.txt [region,serial, hw strings?] from your NAND backup so you don't have trouble getting WIFI to work once you rewrote the new NAND).
There are various tutorials around here, and once you're done, rewrite the fresh NAND with bootmii.

ps: of course this means you'd have to backup everything, savefiles, wads, etc.

A "normal" Wii system format will suffice.
There's no need for 'Punes tools in this case and is probably overkill IMHO.

 

[giantpune]

my tool will also fragment the files it writes. it will a random sector, and then put as much of that file as it can on the same block as that sector. if the file is bigger than the free space on that block, it will pick another random one.

 

[Coto]

A "normal" Wii system format will suffice.
There's no need for 'Punes tools.

If you're going as far as doing a "normal" wii format, most likely you'll have to reinstall all VC channels again, however I don't know if a system format will do side effects if you erase a forced installation through WAD (TMD, tickets...). If you're going that far, it's much better to build a new system menu from scratch, just install everything and restore WADs like you should do.

Also, IIRC originalhamster had a boot2 bugged wii...

in this case and is probably overkill IMHO

Sorry, I don't spend that much time on internet to know what is IMHO, and who cares anyway

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Sorry, I don't spend that much time on internet to know what is IMHO, and who cares anyway

In My Honest Opinion
noob

j/k

 

[Hielkenator]

Sorry, I don't spend that much time on internet to know what is IMHO, and who cares anyway

In My Honest Opinion
noob

j/k

lol, thank you! ( lol = laughing out loud )

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[Coto]

But if a NAND is built from scratch, we will forget wrong, old tickets lying around (whose deleting with anytitler could lead to a permanent brick anyway).

And like others said, defrag flash memory will waste write cicles (as the lifespan of a flash mem depends on the times you write per block)

 

[obcd]

A good flash implementation is suposed to keep track of the number of erase cycles performed on every block. It should try to keep those numbers as small as possible, and equaly divided. As a nand flash chip is purely a memory chip, reading from one sector to another doesn't take time like on a normal harddisk. In case of a normal harddisk, the read write haeds need to be displaced which take time, and very likely the newly requested sector won't be cached, so the disk electronics will need to read it from the platters. While it looks ugly to see your files spread over your nand chip sectors, it doesn't affect speed. Every time the system menu loads, all tickets are checked, and the existence of the titles for it are checked as well to see if they are channels that should be displayed on the system menu. So, if some garbae is left in those folders, it might slowdown things.