Thread: eMMC & micro SD flash card
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maxximuscool is offline maxximuscool
2010-10-12 , 20:26
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Formatting the drive with a standard disk format will not fix the issue either. You'd need a special tool to do a secure erase (thus also needing to repartition) and I don't know if one is included on the N900 by default.

Additionally, fragmentation on NAND has zero impact on read speeds. I think you're imagining things, really.


Well, more like you smeared writes across much more of the flash. The end result being that future writes will be somewhat slower.
I formated it with the N900 and Windows then N900 again.
But I'm going to try formating it with the secure Mac OSX Distool to erase everything on it. Backing up right now. I don't believe that by defraging it once though not finished could smeared the writes across the flash. Though this hasn't been 100% proven. Basically it's in theory because of the flash drive doesn't have any moving objects.

I struggled to get into my memory card previously, the file explorer will either freeze for a moment then back to smooth again. I'll secure erase it may be 7-Pass Erase. It erases the information used to acess my files and writes zeros over the data 7 times. It meets the US Department of Defense standard for securely erasing.

If 7 times is a bad thing then I will just do it Once. What do you think?

So is it that bad, I defraged my eMMC for a while and gave up afterward. It didn't finished and I formated it instead and moving files out and in. I'm going to reformating it with the MacBook Pro again to clean out all the 1 values.
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