Anyone use an iPod as an external hard drive?

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Anyone use an iPod as an external hard drive?

Post by Rx » Thu Jul 18, 2002 4:43 pm

Just curious, since I see how Apple officially supports Windows now and has a 20gb version. It would be cool to have something to listen to my various waves and edits and also use the same thing for a performance.
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Post by tjwett » Thu Jul 18, 2002 7:10 pm

i saw someone who installed OSX on an iPod and could boot the machine off it. it got VERY hot with all the disk access. not sure if mp3s are read like wavs from the HD but i think it might be a little taxing. how fast does the HD spin on the iPod?

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Post by maarthel » Thu Jul 18, 2002 10:01 pm

In the British magazin Sound On Sound there was a couple of months ago a test of several Firewire harddrives with Macs. The iPod was also tested, but what I can remember is that it's performance wasn't that good.
You may find the results on the website
www.sospubs.co.uk

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Post by Rx » Thu Jul 18, 2002 10:25 pm

SOS has a lot of good articles - I'll check it out.
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Post by chris_borgia » Sun Jul 21, 2002 6:12 pm

SOS does have a lot of articals... i could not find the ipod/HD one.. can someone post a direct link?

And the ipod usally loads the mp3 into its 32mb of memory to play it... so most of the time the disk is not spining.(this is a good thing)

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Post by Gerhard » Sat Aug 03, 2002 5:58 pm

Hi, any news on this? Has anyone tried to play uncompressed multi-channel audio from the IPod? Thanks for telling me

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Post by Guest » Sun Aug 04, 2002 8:57 pm

works fine with os 9, i wouldn't use a ipod with osx as it will burn out the drive. i've been booting off my ipod at work since november! no problems using reason/ableton!

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Re: Anyone use an iPod as an external hard drive?

Post by cperezzz » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:11 pm

i use the ipod to transfer files once in a while
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