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Hacker Replaces iPod HDD With Flash Memory
Via a Wired Blog, an anonymous reader wrote with a link to a post on the Geek Technique website. There, post author Mark Hoekstra details how to replace an iPod's HDD with flash memory. It's not an inexpensive procedure, as 16 Gigs of flash memory is still a mite expensive, and the post is not a 'how-to'. Just the same, the project took painstaking work and is well worth recognizing. "I guess I can say I found ways of eliminating almost every hard drive out of almost every hard drive based iPod thereby eliminating all moving parts. The only one left is the iPod video which would only need a slightly different adapter. But next to that I've got a gut feeling that one's being upgraded to flash memory by Apple themselves any time soon."
Less storage then a regular size iPod. More than twice the cost of two 8GB iPod nanos. Other than for the sheer sake of proving it can be done, why is this hack impressive again?
The sun beams down on a brand new day, No more welfare tax to pay, Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light...
"Just the same, the project took painstaking work and is well worth recognizing."
Hardly...reminds me all too much of those car magazine titles "How to Spend $10grand and turn your 89 HP Honda sedan into a 92.4 HP Honda screacher!!!"
Is this what nerds do instead of have sex with their girlfriends? No girlfriend? No problem. Trade in some of that flash memory for a store-bought girlfriend, and you still might have enough money left over to buy a new flash-based nano or shuffle....and /. : what's up with your captcha image? You might as well just ask me to guess what number that you are thinking of, because it's gonna take me hours to figure out what the heck that image is supposed to spell. Well, several seconds anyway. I'll never get those seconds back, you know?