does the capacity/used space on USB drive affect performance

Didn't know whether to post here or in Hardware forum...hope this is the place?

Have a 1 T external usb drive used for system & file backups on 2 machines. Lately it seems that the speed to save a system image is slowing down considerably...particularly on the 2nd networked machine ?

The drive is about 80% full now...could this be the reason the performace/time to save/restore an image seems to be growing longer ?

Thanks...TRinAZ

trinaz said:

Didn't know whether to post here or in Hardware forum...hope this is the place?

Have a 1 T external usb drive used for system & file backups on 2 machines. Lately it seems that the speed to save a system image is slowing down considerably...particularly on the 2nd networked machine ?

The drive is about 80% full now...could this be the reason the performace/time to save/restore an image seems to be growing longer ?

Thanks...TRinAZ

Defragmenting that drive might help

trinaz said:

The drive is about 80% full now...could this be the reason the performace/time to save/restore an image seems to be growing longer ?

It's highly likely that this is your problem. IMO it'd be better to delete old backups rather that bother to defragment the drive. I backup *Files* every day (you may even want continuous backup of Files) but full System images really only need to be saved after configuration changes, and then I only keep a couple, three, or four of these, after which I can't imagine restoring back any further anyway.