jana Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Does the new iPod Nano second generation support windows vista's Ready boost feature? My iPod is a 8GB Black Nano which has flash memory. - I wanted to be able to boost up my computer to 5GB Ram. BTW - its connected to aa USB 2.0 port Anyhelp is really apreciated Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31792-ipod-nano-2nd-gen-and-vista-readyboost/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 It works with USB flash drives. If you use it with Vista. It only supports up to 2 GB(or less) for ReadyBoost. You should partition it: 6 GB for music, 2 GB for ReadyBoost. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31792-ipod-nano-2nd-gen-and-vista-readyboost/#findComment-222232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartboy919 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 I belive that ready boot only works with approved USB drives. though I may be wrong. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31792-ipod-nano-2nd-gen-and-vista-readyboost/#findComment-222330 Share on other sites More sharing options...
schale01 Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 The Flash memory has to be capable of 2.5MB/sec throughput for 4K random reads and 1.75MB/sec throughput for 512K random writes. Don't know if the nano is capable of that or not. I wanted to be able to boost up my computer to 5GB Ram. Then you will have to buy 5GB of RAM. Readyboost only acts as a cache to the swapfile when those 4K random reads are useful. It will not use the Flash memory as RAM. It would be too slow anyway. The maximum size of 4GB, a fat32 limitation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/31792-ipod-nano-2nd-gen-and-vista-readyboost/#findComment-223679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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