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    Strange Idea : Readyboost on ipods?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by catacylsm, May 5, 2009.

  1. catacylsm

    catacylsm Notebook Prophet

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    Hey all, im curious, im wondering if my IPOD Nano can be used for Ready Boost as ive noticed a rather "Big" performance out of it, when starting transfers it his 90 odd megs a second and seems to dip and hang around 30-40mb, which is quite nice in comparison to my USB Stick (3 MB?)

    I couldnt run HD Tune on it however when i error checked it, i had 98% of it with an error hehe :)

    Im just curious has anyone been able to do this before?
     
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  2. coolguy

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    In these days of damn cheap RAM I wouldn't even bother to do this.
     
    coolguy, May 5, 2009
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    catacylsm Notebook Prophet

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    Aha, yes however alot of performance dwells on the hard drive, and a 250GB Toshiba 5400RPM HD isn't the fastest in the world, so im hoping my IPOD can take all the main pressure off the HD and give me a nice increase.
     
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  4. coolguy

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    It wouldn't give a performance boost that you expect. I had tried using 8 GB flash drive as readyboost and never noticed any big boost in performance with my 5400 RPM HD and 2 GB RAM.
     
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    Are you using anything that tax your hdd or requires fast access time with small files? If your ussage patterns don't fit the above, readyboost is useless.

    However, if you use readyboost/eboostr the right way for its designed purposes, it'll greately improve the computer's responsiveness and sometimes improve the speed of the computer.

    Having a 2GB eboostr cache is a day and night difference on my netbook with 160GB HDD with 70MB/s max throughtput and 65MB/s average throughput for my most accessed files.
     
    jackluo923, May 5, 2009
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