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Hacker Replaces iPod HDD With Flash Memory
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Zonk
on Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:45 PM
from the and-now-i-can-drop-it dept.
from the and-now-i-can-drop-it dept.
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."
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Since Apple makes flash based iPods... (Score:3, Insightful)
I suppose its impressive from a technical point of view, but isn't the point of hacking generally to do something you couldn't already do by just selecting a different model?
Re:Since Apple makes flash based iPods... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:Since Apple makes flash based iPods... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:Since Apple makes flash based iPods... (Score:5, Insightful)
Spoken like a true non geek! Why exactly are you on slashdot again?
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Re:Since Apple makes flash based iPods... (Score:4, Insightful)
Apple does make their three lines of iPods slightly different with different features. The iPod 30GB and 80GB can play video and have a 14 and 20 hr battery life respectively. The iPod nano is 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB models. These models have about 24 hr battery life. While they do have color screens, they cannot play videos. This guy seemingly has customized his iPod to be a hybrid. Twice as large than a nano but can play videos.
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how to not write a 'how to' (Score:5, Insightful)
Inverse (Score:5, Funny)
Go 6 second battery life!
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Finally... (Score:5, Insightful)
Hacking has always been about using technology to do something you normally couldn't do. The original hackers built the foundations on which the Web lives. The media and other public opinion sources have vilified all the good hackers by lumping them in with the crackers, script kiddies, and other generally nasty online personas.
Hackers continue to advance the state of technology, whether its writing new bits of the Linux kernel or by upgrading a typically non-user-servicable iPod. The article says it itself: Apple will eventually offer a Flash-based model. Granted, they might have done this themselves eventually, but if the populace starts modding their iPods to run Flash, it only pressures Apple to move forward. Think about the early case modders: Windows, lights, case paint other than beige....Now about 70% of cases I see on Newegg have windows and LEDs.
Whether Fox News wants to admit it or not, hackers will continue to drive innovation. Not MS, not Apple...
Re:Finally... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Not exactly hard (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Not exactly hard (Score:5, Informative)
This makes not exactly hard into not exactly easy.
Cheap iPod mini (Score:3, Interesting)
More iPod Hacks (Score:4, Informative)
He wants to make these adapters? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:How about for my laptop? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:Waste of time (Score:5, Insightful)