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<blockquote data-quote="Taleweaver" data-source="post: 3392977" data-attributes="member: 237261"><p>1. This depends on factors like how much you use it, the brand and things like that. But assuming normal usage, I would say it lasts about 5-6 years minimum. I've got a few USB drives that last that long, but since I use those seldomly (backup purposes), that's absolutely normal (it would surprise me if they would fail before hitting the 10 or even 15 year mark). The USB powered drive I use for my wii is roughly a year and a half now and still works just as fine as the day I bought it.</p><p></p><p>2. fragmentation is a normal thing on all drives. When you add data on a drive, it basically puts it where ever there is free space, and if you delete stuff, it frees up that space. That way, it is only normal that after a good amount of time, files (mostly large files) become 'fragmented': broken into pieces and put into different spots on the drive. Defragmentation is nothing more than rearranging the data to make sure all files are physically next to each other on the drive.</p><p>There is a logical speed boost if you defragment a highly fragmented drive, though it is usually not very noticeable (drive <s>lasers</s> heads these days are so fast it's probably only measurable with testing programs). I can't speak for WBFS partitions (I believe wiimc has some options to do that), but fat32 and NTFS partitions can be defragmented without problems (plenty of programs out there that can do that).</p><p></p><p>EDIT: fixed a technical error</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Taleweaver, post: 3392977, member: 237261"] 1. This depends on factors like how much you use it, the brand and things like that. But assuming normal usage, I would say it lasts about 5-6 years minimum. I've got a few USB drives that last that long, but since I use those seldomly (backup purposes), that's absolutely normal (it would surprise me if they would fail before hitting the 10 or even 15 year mark). The USB powered drive I use for my wii is roughly a year and a half now and still works just as fine as the day I bought it. 2. fragmentation is a normal thing on all drives. When you add data on a drive, it basically puts it where ever there is free space, and if you delete stuff, it frees up that space. That way, it is only normal that after a good amount of time, files (mostly large files) become 'fragmented': broken into pieces and put into different spots on the drive. Defragmentation is nothing more than rearranging the data to make sure all files are physically next to each other on the drive. There is a logical speed boost if you defragment a highly fragmented drive, though it is usually not very noticeable (drive [s]lasers[/s] heads these days are so fast it's probably only measurable with testing programs). I can't speak for WBFS partitions (I believe wiimc has some options to do that), but fat32 and NTFS partitions can be defragmented without problems (plenty of programs out there that can do that). EDIT: fixed a technical error [/QUOTE]
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