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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.

  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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  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 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.

    3. 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. 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.