I have years of experience playing with bigger hardware like desktop PCs, laptops, servers and the like, but I’d never opened up a portable device.
Sounds good! What do I need to do this? You’ll need a few components to make this work and a bit of effort and patience, but overall, it isn’t a hard job to do. I’ve not had mine installed long enough to judge the battery life just yet though. It’s faster, it’s lighter and if you pay enough money and have a compatible iPod, they’re bigger capacity too! From reports I’ve seen, the battery life is still great as well.
IFLASH SATA UPGRADE
A solid state disk (SSD) is a much better upgrade for your iPod Classic.
It’s a spinning disk after all, it’s not going to last forever, especially in a portable. The 1.8″ HDDs are hard to come by these days and are equally as prone to failure as the original disk. As the drives are prone to failure, why throw it away when you can replace it? And even better, why not upgrade it at the same time?
Why would someone else want to do this upgrade? There are plenty of people out there like me who don’t like the modern iPods and would much rather use an iPod Classic. It gave me an excuse to upgrade the disk and have an almost new iPod. I’d paid a fair big of money for the device, although I’d managed to get it for a fair chunk cheaper than any others I’d seen so I wasn’t that bothered. They use a 1.8″ HDD which, as you’d expect with a spinning disk, doesn’t like getting shocked or moved about… which is going to happen quite often in a portable device! I determined after a while that the hard disk drive (HDD) was shot, a common problem with these devices. I picked it up and it was all in good nick, but after some playing around trying to get iTunes to read it. Years later, I’ve been aching to get another and I recently found a bargain 160GB iPod Classic Late 2009 model (7th Generation I believe) on Gumtree. Unfortunately, it got stolen with my car stereo and I’ve never seen it since. I had an iPod Classic about 7 years ago and it was a great device. Hell, even the 160GB in the iPod Classic isn’t enough for me but its good enough for going out and about! Add that to the fact the capacity available in an iPod Touch isn’t enough for me. If I wanted one, I’d buy an iPhone as it can do much more and makes more sense, but if I’m buying an iPod, I want a media player, so I don’t want it to be bogged down with all these apps that I don’t want nor need on my media player. Unfortunately, a few years ago Apple dropped the iPod Classic models in favour of their iPod Touch devices meaning its no longer possible to buy a brand new iPod Classic. Perhaps ill bore you all with the results.The iPod is one of those devices that made Apple what it is today and are still widely regarded as the best portable media player on the market. Only way ill prove it is by testing this theory when my parts arrive in couple of days. No idea what this is referring to or why it causes problems. The latest 7th Gen and any generation before the 6th Gen are subject to LBA48 addressing which does not give a limit - APPARENTLY. Plenty of time on nightshifts to scour the internet this evening - It appears anything built in the 6th -6.5 generation era is subject to LBA28 addressing which is the cause of the limit with using iTunes. Something I hadn't seen before though is that ZIF SSD - didn't even know they existed! Shame the price is so steep, even without the need of a tarkan board its still cheaper to do an SDXC upgrade - providing you get a good deal on your cards. Ive looked at the first two options before and the costs worked out near enough the same as SDXC upgrades.