Iflash quad11/28/2023 I setup a low tech IP camera to take a photo of the iPod every minute, which allowed me to time exactly when the iPod switched off (to the nearest minute). This was done for the MP3 and Lossless playlist for each storage combination. The iPod was fully charged, reset and booted up, the playlist was selected and played. So as mentioned above we have two playlists, one with 320kbps MP3’s (~6Mb per track) and the other with high bitrate lossless m4a files (~30Mb per track). The User Experience reflects the benchmarking results above – the ultimate in smooth scrolling through thousands of albums, near instant album art display goes to the SD cards…. 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. More info is always welcome though I'd like more clarity on the zif iFlash boards in a 3rd gen.Here is the 2016 runtime shootout results. Utliamtely, thanks for the reply to prompt me to go look again. I did find a thread on the iFixit site with 2 users reporting 256GB CF and MicroSD cards in 3rd and 4th gens. iFlash's website typically reports results using stock iTunes though. The same table does show the 3rd gen has a 128GB limit on flash memory. The same page includes a table showing the song limits for the devices which mirrors the usual limits imposed by having 32mb RAM on the stock firmware, though that isn't disclaimed. So I found on iFlash's website for a similar converter pictures of 4th gens showing 256GB via SDXC, 656GB via a quad, and 384GB via a dual. Of course, it's a beginner's guide and naturally recommends the 5th and 7th gens to start with. You mention checking "the beginner's guide," could you provide a link to which specific guide please? The guide I typically refer to beginners is Yuuiko's Guide, but it only cites the 128GB LBA on the 6th gens with no mention of any limits on earlier gens. If you can shed further light, I'd appreciate it. I'll be heading over to r/rockbox to dig around this evening. I'm still wondering if Rockbox permits bypassing those limits the same way it works around the 128GB LBA limit of the 6th gens and usual RAM imposed song limits in stock. I just spent another hour doing some searching and now I'm finding conflicting information on the iFlash and iFixit websites (I detailed what I found below). Thanks for the reply! So, those ribbons do work successfully on the zif iFlash boards, which is nice to see a firsthand report.
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