9/19/2005
Save Your iPod's Hard Drive
After 2 years of heavy hard drive use, my 30GB 3G iPod died last week. The iPod itself is fine, but the hard drive is toast. Luckily I was able to pull most of my important files off (some of them one at a time). Right now the guys ate iPodMods are fixing it for me.Why did this happen? I wasn't just using my iPod for playing music. I was transporting large amounts of files everyday to and from work and even capturing DV video to my iPod. I also kept my iPod mounted to my computer all day and played music off it. As I later learned, this is not exactly a smart move. Over time I basically wore out my iPod's hard drive. So please learn from my mistakes. Try to use your iPod mostly for music and not for massive and frequent file transports.
I mailed my iPod off iPodMods to get fixed but I still need a portable hard drive to shuttle files back and forth with me everyday. I needed a small and reliable drive that I can use with both Macs and PCs. I also wanted one made by a very well known hard drive manufacturer. My data is very important to me and spending a little extra for a quality hard drive is well worth it in the long run. I had a bad experience with a cheap Maxtor hard drive before and will never buy a crappy drive for my data again. After an extended search I found the perfect match: the Seagate Pocket Hard Drive.
The Seagate Pocket Hard Drive is a standard high-speed USB 2.0, bus-powered device. It provides a true "plug and play" connection that supports hot plugging so you can connect or disconnect the drive even when your computer is on. The drive receives power directly through the USB connector so there is no need for an external power source or batteries.
The high-speed USB 2.0 is backward compatible with the older USB 1.1 standard. However, USB 1.1 only supports transfer rates of 12 Mbits/sec. To take advantage of the speed of your Pocket Hard Drive, connect it to a computer that supports high-speed USB 2.0 connections. High-speed USB 2.0 supports data rates up to 480 Mbits/sec (40 times faster than USB 1.1). You can save any type of data and files on the device including text, graphics, programs, music, and even multimedia files.
The Seagate Pocket Hard Drive is a Flash Memory drive that has no mechanical parts. This means there's no hard drive to wear out and no spindle motors to power.
This hard drive is big on storage but small in size. If you are looking to put fewer "hard drive miles" on your iPod, then definitely look into getting an alternate portable data drive.
Although Seagate isn't the Lamborghini of hard drive manufacturers (try Hitachi), their Pocket Hard Drive has gotten rave reviews and gets the job done at a great price.
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and to think at blogspot.com i came up with the ultimate name..anonymous xD and thanks to the net i was not the only person to think of it..
anywhoo about the harddrive...
u should of known that first hand, hard drives go out and even with great care they will die one day..=*( but the more care = the longest time...
anywhoo about the harddrive...
u should of known that first hand, hard drives go out and even with great care they will die one day..=*( but the more care = the longest time...
"As I later learned, this is not exactly a smart move. Over time I basically grinded my iPod's hard drive into the dirt."
uuhh....how did you learn this, apart from the physical state of the drive itself?
uuhh....how did you learn this, apart from the physical state of the drive itself?
[*] posted by 
: September 30, 2005 9:02 PM
: September 30, 2005 9:02 PM
the same thing happened to my ipod. i installed a Linux Unreal server on it. After running constantly for about a month, the hard drive made its last spin.
seriously, this is a smart idea for people who think they might use their ipod's hard drive more for files than music.
seriously, this is a smart idea for people who think they might use their ipod's hard drive more for files than music.
[*] posted by : October 10, 2005 8:05 AM
: October 10, 2005 8:05 AM
I know that you all are moving on to the USB portable hard drive, but if your looking to keep your iPod for your tunes, check out iPodmods.com. They can replace iPod harddrives and fix other iPod deficiencies like broken/cracked LCD screens, faulty click wheels, and dead batteries.
Check us out at www.ipodmods.com.
Check us out at www.ipodmods.com.
If you still want to utilize your iPod to listen to music, you might want to consider replacing the hard drive thru iPodmods. We can replace hard drives on any generation iPod, and also recover data lost on the old hard drive. We can also fix broken iPod LCD screens and install extended life iPod batteries.
Check us out at www.iPodmods.com to see what we can do for your iPod.
Check us out at www.iPodmods.com to see what we can do for your iPod.
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