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    Broken Ipod Mini as RAM... Listen to this!!!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by aan310, May 28, 2007.

  1. aan310

    aan310 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I have vista prem... and i pluged im my old mini w/ a broken scrollwheel, and i can use it as the "RAM" thing, the speed boost thing... what ever its called. so yea... broken mini=4gb of "RAM"
     
    aan310, May 28, 2007
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  2. chesieofdarock

    chesieofdarock Notebook Deity

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    does this actually work?because that would mean a broken ipod vido could give you 80 gigs of ram?
     
    chesieofdarock, May 28, 2007
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    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    No it only works with the Ipod mini and other flash based mp3 players. The larger ipods (10gb and up) have small harddisks inside and cant be used with readyboost.

    And its not RAM. Just a flash disk for fast access cache. No where near as fast as real RAM.
     
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  4. rahkunn

    rahkunn Notebook Consultant

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    I thought the feature worked only with flash drives. Maybe I was wrong :p

    [edit] wasn't ipod mini also a HDD based player? nano and shuffle were and are the only flash based players [/edit]
     
    rahkunn, May 28, 2007
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    Yeah, I'm kind of surprised that works..... the iPod Mini doesn't use Flash memory, it uses a microdrive.
     
    zadillo, May 28, 2007
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    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yeah, the iPod mini used microdrives (I remember this because some people actually bought minis just to pull them apart and take the microdrive out, since it was cheaper than buying a microdrive by itself).

    I guess maybe Vista can't tell the difference though.

    I'm not sure how well this should work though, as it is a microdrive with moving parts, and not Flash memory. I'd be curious about how well it really works for performance, etc.
     
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    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    Very strange then. Those minidrives are much slower then the notebook hard drive.
     
    wave, May 28, 2007
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    Even if the HDD does work, it actually beats the purpose of having more RAM because the access speed is terribly slower.
     
    rahkunn, May 28, 2007
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  9. Redline

    Redline Notebook Prophet NBR Reviewer

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    The microdrive can be replaced by a Compact Flash card. I was considering buying a used mini to do that at one point, until the 2G nanos came out.

    I don't think performance will be very good, the microdrives are pretty freaking slow on their own, much less through a USB connection.
     
    Redline, May 28, 2007
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