![]() ![]() The SD platform is designed to be ready for access in under 100mS, and the SD cards have virtually instant access times – which result in a blistering 5.7 & 5.6 seconds buffer fill times. The mSata comes in 2nd with a time of 6.7 seconds this maybe surprising but the SATA bus actually takes some time to handshake and negotiate the link from powerup. ![]() HDD is the slowest at 7.5 seconds which was to be expected as it takes over 1 second for the drive to spin-up before actually reading any data. While the SD cards have the slowest raw transfer speeds, they are hands down winners of the Read-ahead and access times test. As a reference, freshly restored iPod boots up in around 24 seconds. ![]() The SDXC only takes 2 seconds longer to boot – The overriding factor is the time the iPod takes to parse through the iTunes database. Considering the mSata read speeds are much faster than the SDXC. Interestingly, it looks like the storage read speed does not impact the boot time as much as you would expect. I chose this as the original 160Gb hard drive is very efficient as far as spinning platter disks go and the 7.5g itself is the most efficient of this generation of iPods. Test was conducted on the 7.5g iPod Classic, originally came with 160Gb hard drive. While in actual use the runtimes will be shorter, it still provides a very useful comparison of the different storage mediums. ![]() The test is pretty simple – load up each storage option with the same music, hit play and see how long it takes for the iPod to shutdown. Making their debut is the iFlash-Solo and iFlash-Quad, it will be very interesting to see how 4 MicroSD’s compare against the fullsize SD cards used in the iFlash-Solo & iFlash-Dual.ĭuring April 2016, all the SD iFlash adapters were updated to a new platform (internally named iFlash85), with this new platform I have squeezed a little more efficency out of the chipset as well as reducing power and startup times – however, the agressive power saving used in the iPod’s means that the iFlash board sits idle most of the time, so this will not result in much change in the final runtimes compared to the previous platform. Oh, also windows device-manager or disk-manager can sometimes 'see' a more complete disk capacity than explorer does.Here is the 2016 runtime shootout results. Wouldn't surprise me if there were a limit with the Tarkan adaptor. Would be sort-of-usable, except you'd be stuck syncing with rockbox, with all the disk error problems that involves, so until they fix rockbox's ata driver that wouldn't be a real solution. I was wondering if there was any upper limit due to the hardware (as I've reached about 1.5Tb myself).ĭoes it show the full capacity if you don't restore the ipod the normal iTunes way but just format it from within windows? That's not a usable solution, obviously, though if it worked to that extent, you might be able to install rockbox (perhaps using the old emcore method?), which might give a clue as to what might be going on. That's very interesting to know (crikey, four 1Tb cards must cost a humungous amount! I suspect you are the first to try this). You might be better off going for one of Tarkan's made-for-ipod iFlash adapters If 1 and 2 check out ok then there's a fault or compatibility problem with the adapters. Test both with and without the SD-CF adapter.ģ. Double-check capacity of SD card in a card reader. I've seen that with original drives and bad ribbon cables.ġ. The fact you get gibberish in the ipod's diagnostics page points to some sort of communication problem. Those cheap CF-ZIF adapters can be tricky to get the ribbon cable attached properly - the cable can go too far in and miss the contacts. For info, I have a Qumox microSD to CF adapter but it does not work in an ipod but works ok in a card reader. I have a several CF-SD adapters that look similar to yours (Googling the description) and have used them ok with SDXC cards. I suspect it's either the CF-SD adapter or the CF-ZIF adapter (or both!). ![]()
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