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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1810942" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>Thank you for the info. One thing to keep in mind is that with Flash based storage devices (USB flash drives, SSDs, MMC, eMMC, etc.) there is a thing called wear leveling that ensures that the flash parts all wear equally and no part fails before others reducing the available storage of the drive. Flash has a limited lifetime as it relates to erase cycles.</p><p></p><p>The cheapest USB flash drives will likely not have any wear leveling built in (and will rely on software to do that), but more expensive ones might. So again, if the PS2 is forcibly trying to read data in a contiguous manner, the wear leveling might not yield the result it wants.</p><p></p><p>Defragging would have no effect on this and technically defragging is bad for flash drives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1810942, member: 110816"] Thank you for the info. One thing to keep in mind is that with Flash based storage devices (USB flash drives, SSDs, MMC, eMMC, etc.) there is a thing called wear leveling that ensures that the flash parts all wear equally and no part fails before others reducing the available storage of the drive. Flash has a limited lifetime as it relates to erase cycles. The cheapest USB flash drives will likely not have any wear leveling built in (and will rely on software to do that), but more expensive ones might. So again, if the PS2 is forcibly trying to read data in a contiguous manner, the wear leveling might not yield the result it wants. Defragging would have no effect on this and technically defragging is bad for flash drives. [/QUOTE]
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