80GB Capacity Question

[totosquirt]

I have an 80GB iPod. I want to fill it up with tons of files. Will my iPod load music and playlists slower if I add too much music? (I mean like 40 or 50GB rather than 72GB where the cache might have to fill up more frequently)

If it does, what is the recommended percentage or used storage I should fill up on my iPod so that it is efficient? (Won't slow down and will fit the most files)

Does the iPod hard drive have the same reasoning for having at least 25% (or is it another percentage) of your hard drive (on your computer) free? Unless that extra space on the computer is for something else...

please help :confused:

[mjmoonwalker]

By your reasoning, it would run slightly slower, but IMHO, the difference would be way too small for you to even notice. I've filled my iPod up to the rim with files and it's still running fine. It won't take say ... 5 seconds to load your playlists. It should run fine.

As for your last question regarding the reasoning, I have no idea, but I assume it's different as one's a computer and one's built to play music files.

[Kutanks]

Yeah, it runs slower, but if you restore it, then it goes back to top speed, it slows down as a result of file fragmentation, try restoring your ipod or defraging it, this improves performance by a substantial margin

[totosquirt]

thx; i have 38GB of data on my iPod - is it slower? i don't know :( hopefully not.

i will only know if i restore the iPod and compare speeds

[paranoidxe]

You really aren't going to notice any slowdown because of the buffer, the 64MB buffer should be filled most of the time anyway, therefore there shouldn't be much drive activity when you use it until the buffer gets empty then the HD will have to spin back up. Yes if course a hard drive is going to get slower the more it is full thats the inherit evil of hard drives..but will you notice it? probably not.

My advice? Get fillin!