| Article Index |
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| LaCie iamaKey Review |
| Features, Specifications and Size |
| Performance: ReadyBoost |
| Performance: Real World Access |
| Problems |
| Conclusion |
| All Pages |
LaCie state that the drive supports ReadyBoost, and indeed as soon as I opened the Windows properties dialog, I could see the ReadyBoost system test the iamaKey and it is, indeed, compatible.
The raw ReadyBoost performance numbers (a one off test, if it “succeeds”) are as follows:
- Random Read Speed: 4660 KB/sec (minimum for ReadyBoost: 2500 KB/sec)
- Random Write Speed: 2251 KB/sec (minimum for ReadyBoost: 1750 KB/sec)
Observant readers will notice a rather large discrepancy between the performance numbers quoted by LaCie and the numbers reported by Windows ReadyBoost. This is to be expected – the numbers reported by LaCie are sequential access, like reading a novel from first page to last; the numbers that Windows reports are random access, like reading page 23, then 49, 101, 12, 224, 76, 188 and so forth. Interestingly when I used ATTO to get some comparative statistics, the data was unusable - every time. I've highlighted what I believe to be obviously incorrect figures:
So ReadyBoost works – but what if I just want to store files?
