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200gb Hack for iPod Nano

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-plain-silly dept.

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.

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  1. Yup... by rovingeyes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    funny how I felt the same way when I read it on a lazy Thursday afternoon.

    1. Re:Yup... by Zeph · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Not to mention, it was discussed in a sub-thread 1-2 weeks ago, which is just as much coverage of this sort of (admittedly entertaining) news deserves. I'd go and find it, but I've wasted enough time with this article already.

    2. Re:Yup... by Pharmboy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You've got to admit, this is borderline "news".

      I would respectfully disagree. "News for Nerds", to me, includes How-To articles. The fact that the modification has no practical application is not important, since few would attempt it even if it did. It DOES however, jar some imaginations, and gets people thinking about how things work. I won't do this mod, but I didn't know how easy it was to hack an IPod before this article.

      What it DOES show, is that the guy who did this was pretty damn smart and also had a good sense of humor. Then again, I'm working on an underwater camera fishing rig, so impractical but real How-To articles appeal to me. I was going to use a stun gun mounted to the camera, but I think that's illegal here in NC. (Really, not making it up)

      I say we have MORE articles were people use technology and know-how in unusual, if impractical, applications. With all the dupes, there is obviously room to fit it on the front page. ;)

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  2. Only 200GB? by Yocto+Yotta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:Only 200GB? by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Yer math is a bit off. 90/200 is right...for a 200 meg drive. But for a 200 gig drive, it's 90/200,000 (counting 1000 megs to the gig, which is wrong), which equals .00045 cents per meg, which means one meg in floppy cash is equal to 466 megs in harddrive cash.

      So a 200 gig drive made of floppies would cost about $42,000 (1 meg = .21, .21 * 200,000)...A bit more than twice the price of a 200 gig hard drive.

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  3. illegal warez? by dmf415 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

    1. Re:illegal warez? by gunpowda · · Score: 5, Insightful
      The whole point of excessive storage in a device is comfort. People like to have way more than they'll ever use just for the sake of it - Gmail is a particularly good example.

      Don't forget that iPods don't just have to store music - I'm sure as capacities increase we'll move towards higher quality, even lossless music files as a standard.

    2. Re:illegal warez? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Would this be a bad time to mention that all digital audio is by definition lossey?

      So is the recording equipment. So are the speakers. So is the human ear. The point is that the days of needing compression for CD-based music are numbered. Even with the volume of storage needed for 5.1 DVD audio, we aren't talking about needing that many more orders of magnitude disk space.

    3. Re:illegal warez? by iphayd · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Would it be a bad time to mention that all recorded (and heard) audio is by definition lossy?

      There are plenty of sounds that we do not record, because we are not supposed to be able to hear them. However, I know of people that say that recordings sound different because the high tones are missing completely. This is on analog recordings.

    4. Re:illegal warez? by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Only if you're recording from an analog source. There's a good deal of music these days that is produced entirely from digital sources.

    5. Re:illegal warez? by RatBastard · · Score: 4, Insightful

      And what about using it as a USB drive? Or they want to use Apple Lossless format?

      And why does everyone assume that if you have more than X gigabytes of music you must have stolen it all? I have 17GB in my iTunes library out of 21GB of potential (if I hadn't deleted the songs I didn't like) music. Where did this all come from? 95% from CDs I own that are sitting in my living room (minus the odd CD that only had one song I liked on it and sold to the used CD store). Of the rest most have come from either iTunes Music Store, EMusic.Com and a few from artists websites. How the hell could I have done this? Easy. I've been buying CDs since 1987.

      I find the knee-jerk assumption that large storage automatically means theft offensive. Take your "you must be a thief to want this" attitude and ram it up your ass.

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  4. in 3 years.. by perler · · Score: 2, Insightful
    this is that kind of story you read in 3 years and thinks "wow, that was a joke at that time?!" - quite like an april fools joke in an (east-)german DIY mag in the early eighties about a "poket tv" complete with DIY blueprints and part list, haha ;) - at that time you just couldn't imagine happen something like this because "you will never get a tube so flat to get into your pocket!"

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  5. Re:iPod Nano becomes iPod Gigo by PatrickThomson · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You seem to have forgotten to read 1) the slashdot article text 2) everyone elses posts. This is a JOKE, as seen by the monty python foot.

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  6. Re:all recording is lossy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No analog curve will every reproduce any other analog curve either. No pair of playbacks of the same analog recording will ever even produce the same wave. Digital takes a one time accuracy hit, sure, but that can be reduced to an arbitrary level with sample rate and sample bits. And of course the ADC and DAC involved have to be taken into account... but to imply that digital is INHERENTLY less accurate than analog because "analog is curvy" is absurd.

  7. how about a more useful hack? by RelliK · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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  8. Re:Shannon Sampling Theorem by anethema · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wrong. You can perfectly reconstruct a 22.05khz sine wave sampling at 44.1khz.

    You can NOT accuratly reconstruct a 22.05khz square wave with a 44.1khz sampling clock. Look up nyquist's theorum.

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  9. it's a JOKE... by gotr00t · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The article is obviously satire about how some people simply don't understand the point of having an iPod. It's _NOT_ about the storage space, it's _NOT_ about the features. It's a convinent way to carry music around.

    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.