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200gb Hack for iPod Nano
romka1 writes "For people who think their Nano doesn't have enought space for their music there is a hack walkthrough to get 200 gigs on your Nano. Warning some assembly required" For some reason this tickled my funny bone this morning. Enjoy.
funny how I felt the same way when I read it on a lazy Thursday afternoon.
Why stop at 200GB? You could use a 500GB drive and have 150% additional capacity with zero gain in size. I'm a little disappointed that the nano cases won't quite fit anymore though. As the article states though, this is one mod any nano owner cannot do without.
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I've always wanted an iPod Kilo.
Note that the 200gb capacity enables you to store about 50 000 pieces of music. If this capacity is filled with illegal "warez" mp3s, you can be fined up to 75 000 000 USD. (204 800 megabytes, 4 megabytes per song, 10 songs per CD, average CD price 15 USD).
Who else besides the author has 75 million handy?
This was cool when I read it on October 4th on Hackaday...
Please ignore any obvious problems in this post.
"There's nothing like adding an extra 196 gigs to my iPod Nano so I can listen to all my favorite British Invasion bands." -- Oscar Wilde.
It's good to see that more and more people are realizing that the Uncyclopedia is the true source for knowledge.
Disassemble the iPod Nano using a screwdriver, and a Dremel. Use a very fine bit on the Dremel to avoid tarnishing the finish. Separate the two halves of the shell, and lay them on the table. Remove each part and place them separately. Remove the click wheel, and battery components to expose the mainboard. Remove the LCD screen with care, as it is very delicate. Avoid allowing dust to settle on it. When you are done, it should look like this.
Using a dremel on your iPod Nano? OUCH!!
Much like the black widow, after the battery life of the Nano completely drains, the Maxtor Diamond will attempt to eat the iPod Nano for sustenance
You bastards!
An iPod Macro, just what I've also been holding out for!
Apparently someone at Slashdot has invented time travel and failed to post about it. Or maybe they traveled into the future and posted about it then.
Slashdot: 24 hours behind every other site or your money back!
I suppose the Brass Monkey can substitute for music when you break your Nano
The link has been already slashdotted! I guess uncyclopedia.org is running on a modded iPod too?
Try this link.
12 minute battery hack for iPod Nano!
Does anyone know of a hack to get thet battery life on the 200Gb Nano up from 6-minutes? I'm thinking maybe a car battery could be used for power. Any thoughts?
I think I'm going to wait for a Raid hack...
What other people think of me is none of my business
In all seriousness, size is the only reason I haven't bought an iPod. I bought one in 2003 and gave it away by the end of the year to a coworker. I don't want to just carry a few songs with me. I want to carry my entire collection. And not just MP3s and AACs, but OGGs, too. Theoretically, I would like to store and listen to all of my music on a single device. I don't want to store 100% of my collection on an external drive, plug it into my laptop, connect the ipod to my laptop and copy of 20% of my collection at any one time.
So as soon as these suckers hit around 300gbs, I'll be buying one.
My gmail account has some 827MB worth of crap on it. I'm filling it at pretty close to the growing rate.
Remember that 1GB HD that you'd never fill up?
The 32MB of RAM that was workstation levels?
The fast 14.4k modem?
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I've actually been known to do that - for my cameras...
wait,....
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you mean "It's a Joke" form factor
It seems Uncyclopedia forgot to upgrade their server with a 200 Trilobyte WAN connection. You'd think they'd put their own good advice to use and avoid the Slashdot effect?
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
And we all know how long the iPod's battery will keep that hard drive spinning. Oh wait, this is an Apple product so it get's posted despite the "It's a Joke" factor.
Yes. It is a joke. That is why it's under "Humour". Funny, that.
Photoshopped from ArsTechnica. Remove if sued.
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Wah Sig!
Yes, this was completely meant to be iPod product placement. Also, the link itself definitely doesn't mention the battery life thing at all. Good eye.
Google cache!u ncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ipod_Nano_200gb_Instructions+ &hl=en&client=firefox-a
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:i22oAfgJYvgJ:
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Its a shame you lose some portability needing to power the drive and all, I would have liked to see a nice car battery attatched supplying the DC 12v.
Wah Sig!
Coral Cache Stop breaking Uncyclopedia you heathens.
can't read... don't own a nano anyway so it doesn't matter too much; just wanted to feed the curiousity. my biggest question is, and always has been: Can Slashdot be slashdotted?
- My question is: Can Slashdot be Slashdotted? -
Or maybe try these links: main page, first subpage, second subpage, third subpage. They're slow, but they do load eventually.
Darn you all! You slashdotted my wiki host!
Good old Wikia, providing free MediaWikis (at http://www.wikicities.com/), and you had to go ahead and kill it. I hope you're proud of yourself.
RIAA will be happy to sell you 200 GB of songs, think how fast they will get rich.
"As your new iPod Nano with expanded storage capacity will no longer require the puny amounts that it originally came with, you should ... desolder the flash onboard the iPod Nano. Once you've done so, you can throw away the memory chips, as they are no longer necessary."
Or send them to me.
The hacked up iPod Nano weighs in at an extremely portable 0 lbs., and has a battery life of exactly one half of 10 minutes.
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coral cache got slashdotted
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You joke, but it wouldn't be very hard. Not that long ago I saw a hack (in Macaddict magazine, I believe) on how you could run an iPod Shuffle off of a 9V battery. Basically you just take a USB extension cable and cut it a few inches away from the female end, connect the 9V battery to a solid-state +5V voltage regulator (Radioshack) and connect that to the appropriate wires in the USB cable. Wrap with duct tape and enjoy.
If you could find a +5V regulator that would work with just 1V of overhead, you'd be in business -- just replace the 9V with four D-cells. Or heck, why screw around with flashlight batteries. Get yourself a sealed lead-acid brick and you're in business. All it needs is a shoulder strap.
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I thought this was a serious article for 5 whole seconds. I feel stupid now.
You are reading a copy of my copyrighted post.
My math says about 3 orders of magnitude less, but still... Most people don't spend 75 thousand on music, and those who do probably wouldn't spend the time to rip every one of those 5000 cds.
OK, the idea of hacking an iPod nano is silly, but in all seriousness I would love to have a component-sized iPod for my stereo system. If I had a full-sized iPod with a dead battery and half a clue on how to convert between 3.5" and 1.8" drive cables...
Write Only Memory: Another pointless blog.
Listen,
It's about time all this 'outside' nonsense stops. Let me state, once and for all, there is no outside. Anyone who claims otherwise is trying to undermine the fabric of our society and should be prosecuted as the terrorists they are.
I don't think you're aware of the potential harm this might cause. You might think it's all for a laugh, at least, I hope you do. Please don't tell me they've gotten to you and you honestly believe in the elusive 'outside'.
Holy cow, the cached sites are even crashing, must be a must-read article.
Would be nice if you didn't have to attach a HDD by solder, would be better just to have an expansion slot for large capacity memory cards and/or the ability to attach an external HDD. With the Maxtor drive attached in this configuration, the Nano triples in size and you run the risk of screwing it up permanently.
If memory expansion/capacity is what most everyone wants, I am not sure why they haven't added a memory slot for the iPod? I also often wonder how long it will be before they have 1 terrabyte cards as a standard, say maybe 1 year from now?
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
If you're gunna expand it to 200gb, why not just get a laptop? the ipod nano was supposed to be small, but the mod would triple it in size even if it did work (i'm doubting that it does).
There are many other hacks for the Apple iPod family available already. From the first generation iPods as well as for the iPod Shuffle and iPod mini. You may also find links to hacks for accessories like cables and headphones and batteries.
The old Archos players are bulky, but they do go to 120GB when you drop in the latest Seagate 2.5" drives. Pretty sweet. It's nice being able to add $100GB to your DAP for only a hundred bucks or so.
It's just a pity that their expansion has to stop here because their disk controller is not LBA and only reads up to the ~127GB limit.
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+1 So Clueless it's Funny!
A very clever observation, you deserve a cookie.
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Back in the spring, I saw a "Coming Soon" announcement for Uncyclopedia which said It's like Wikipedia, only you can make shit up!
Pretty sad when they're able to write iPod correctly, but not GB ...
Furthermore, what the hell is a 'gigs'. Giga isn't english, you don't apply english rules to the word.
For the rest of the inept crowd out there -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
More like news for idiots who can't spell.
It's a bloody fake.. why do so few see this?
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Does anybody else get tired of the seemingly interchangeable way that bytes(B) and bits(b) are used by many people?
>Would this be a bad time to mention that all digital audio is by definition lossey?
Wait. What makes "digital" lossy but non-digital non-lossy?
Pick any analog method of recording and duplication. Its lossy. Now toss in playback equipment, speakers, ears, etc.
I don't see how your neo-luddite comment applies nor why it should be modded up.
Arguably, digital methods are non-lossy over time considering current analog recordings (tapes, LPs) over time simply disintegrate causing all sorts of loss, while digital data can be reproduced without loss over generations and onto different digital media thus avoiding the aging problem. Copy that Office 2000 CD all you like, after the 8th generation you arent suddenly going to lose spell checker. Same with digital audio. Now copy that audio tape 8 times and tell me its not lossy.
Hmm.... Lets find out!
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I was going to go do the math myself, but AC beat me to it.
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I think I just contributed to the "slashdot effect". The page is unavailable as the Server probably melted from hits....
Here is what would be a lot more useful:
- buy a 20GB iPod
- buy a 80GB 1.8" HD
- upgrade the HD in the iPod
This would be awesome if you fill up the HD but don't want to shell out $$$ for a whole new unit. Is this possible? I'd love to buy a 20GB model knowing that if I ever run out of space I can upgrade the HD.
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To put it into term that you can understand, if your ear cannot detect frequencies higher than 22.05 kilohertz then a sampling rate of 44.1 samples per second can perfectly reproduce any sound you can hear.We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are.
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It just had to be done ;o)
Don't take the above poster too seriously. He doesn't.
I realize the iPod has a user friendly interface for handheld operation, but a component-sized music player would likely be operated by remote. I don't see too many remotes with click wheels, nor do I see too many component systems that are not housed within an entertainment center several feet from the entertainee. Unless you're absolutely in love with Apple's audio codecs, the FLAC website has several links to other commercially available players which support many formats. You may have made an excellent prediction in the next direction of iPod development. A home iPod device would be simpler and look better than plugging an iPod into line level jacks on a receiver.
I'll be your candy shop of infinite deliciousity if you'll be my discotheque of endless rump-shaking.
Obvious garbage like this is passed around as if it isn't a scam. This yet again shows the problems with Wiki. There's no real control. The inmates are running the asylum.
Another good example of this is the lie that Wiki published that Wyoming had 57 electoral votes during the 2004 elections. I don't know what the person that edited that Wiki page hoped to gain from that lie, but it certainly upset a lot of people. That bit of misinformation ended-up repeated on dozens of web sites.
It's an obvious fake. The photos are taken from the Ars Technica autopsy of the Nano. If you look closely at the picture with the "attached" ATA board, it's clear the wires are Photoshopped in.
Didn't you know that it's a script that accepts and rejects your stories based on keywords, the status of your slashdot subscription and a random accept/reject flag? Obviously you either forgot to subscribe, spam the proper keywords or just plain failed the randomly scripted check.
Only after all that does it go to a live reviewer to be duped ^_^
You need a FREE iPod Nano
... the 'tested' battery life should convince you otherwise:
iPod Nano Retail 8:23 play time
upgraded 200gb iPod 0:06
So you'd get to play about 1.5 of those 50,000 songs between recharges...
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The RIAA has sued EVERY maker of ANY new technology. And they've kept up the senseless, relentless assault until one of their existing or future clients figures out a way to make money doing it. They don't care about who's progress is being retarded or even how many people get hurt.
Thee **AAs are in, exactly in, and ONLY in, the business of stopping progress. They have nothing else to sell. And they are selling it... If they weren't getting paid, they wouldn't be doing it.
The **AAs have nothing else to sell. Not creativity, not talent, not artistry. Just the bloody-mindedness that lower life forms bring to the pursuit of food. The **AAs just hire lawyers, people who are moral relativists and only see things in terms of conflicts that make them money.
Go after the **AAs customers. Write to the heads of all the companies and tell THEM to stop treating you like criminals or you'll stop buying. And then STOP BUYING!
Then and only then will you be rid of DRM and zones and restrictions.
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Who are they kidding? :D It kinda looks like crap with the HDD being at least 4 times bigger than the iPod...
Oh, and I love that comment too: We found in our benchmarking results that the addition of the ATA hard drive adversely affected battery life. Big surprise, really!
1. For most people (and the word "most" here refers to at least 99% of the world), the iPod *would* hold their entire collection of music.
2. I will never, ever, ever run with a non-flash mp3 player again. If you were a runner, you would understand. The hard drive will inevitably fail, probably within just a couple of months of frequent use.
Thankfully, Apple knows that your personal preferences don't accurately represent the market for mp3 players. If your preferences did accurately represent the market, you better believe that your magic device would exist. It would be large, bulky, and ugly, but it would sure fit your entire music collection.
The iPod Nano was unique, one of the reasons of which was that it was flash memory-based, correct? Then wouldn't hacking it to use a hard-drive be counter-intuitive, and a step in the wrong direction? Though it may have its uses, it's just a step back from solid-state media.
Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Bugs are good for building character in the user.
You've just rendered Wikicities useless! You could have posted a Coral Cache link, so people could read this tripe without interrupting the rest of Wikia's functions, but you didn't. Thanks ever so much.
That's true for theoretical conditions but in practise it's not quite that good. The maths assumes infinitely precise sample resolution and perfect sampling points. In practise a CD is limited to 16-bit resolution and due to the vagaries of electronics the sampling points will often drift by a microsecond or two from their ideal times.
That's why when they master the CD they purposefully use a low-pass filter to cut-off the frequencies above approximately 20kHz. They lose 2kHz of frequency range that theoretically could be stored on the CD, though nobody can hear much in that range anyway so it's not a big loss. This is also why 20-bit and 24-bit recordings at 96kHz are considered useful. It's not because audiophiles (morons) have ears that can hear dog-whistle frequencies, but because it allows the encoding/decoding electronics to be simpler (simpler analogue filters) and therefore cheaper.
I see it as a slap in the face for those people who say things like "the iPod should have an CF expansion slot!" or "it should have video!!!111!one"(actually it does now), because that's not the selling point of the iPod.
OK, so this "hack" which leaves you carrying a bare drive with a busted open nano strapped to it won't work. Why is it even featured on slashdot in the "Hardware" section. We need jokes.slashdot.org for this article. Are the moderators aware that Uncyclopedia's goal is to spread false information?
Unbelievable, the number of "omg, it's fake!" posts here...they're almost 1:1 for all of the "omg, teh server has been slashdotted!" comments that haven't been modded as redundant. Really, if you made it through the first sentence of TFA without realising that it was a joke, then how you managed to turn your machine on this morning is beyond me.
200GB on iPod Nano?? More like iPod Nano on 200GB.....
My paragraph that you quoted was an oversimplification. The post I was responding to was claiming that a near infinite sampling frequency was needed to perfectly sample a finite bandwidth signal. That post also specified a "purely theoretical" context.
I'm confident that you will agree with me that after all of the real-world engineering details are taken into account, a finite bandwidth signal can still be captured with a finite sampling rate although that rate needs to be higher than twice the highest frequency in the signal due to the engineering concerns.
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Sure. I wasn't disagreeing with you, just expanding on the point.
Bah. I installed a 120gig Seagate 2.5" on my Creative Zen yonks ago. How it's done. (pops) Still use same Li-ion battery and get 12 hours out of it. But I guess Apple Fan-boys ALWAYS like to think themselves 1st. Just trying out my Fark Tags thingie
My fav units are dead Mavs
Way too cool! A couple of phone calls later, and I'm in business!
Call now for your pre-fabbed kit! Simply send* your Nano to:
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Hurry! Operators (^ * / + - ) are standing by in order to take your order.
* A core charge is assessed for any dead or non-returned Ipod nano's.
I realize they can revert it back, but you have got to admit this is still a goddamn nuisance, and that Slashdot is apparantly full of assholes.
Given the quality of some of the readership here, maybe Slashdot shouldn't link to Wikis.
Assholes. You know who you are.
I owe the author much for introducing me to this site. The entire thing is a wellspring of humor. I shall never want again.
And of course it's fake, you 'tards.
1. Take an Ipod Nano ......
2. Use 1 roll of black electrical tape
3. Use tape to attatch a car to the Ipod
4.
5. Profit!
It's a PORTABLE IPOD!
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blah....that was a perfectly good technical pun....no sense of humor :P