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Originally Posted by Raphael
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I must ask one question though. I have estimated that 200 hours of burn will total an amount of over 8 days. I plan to allow the iMod to burn-in 24/7. Is this a terrible idea? I do not wish to risk overheating/overworking it.
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I have been leaving my iMod on for the past two weeks with no ill effect
Technically speaking the iPod has relatively little mechanical work since it reads a bit of the file, caches it, and then plays from the cache. This is how ipods get their long battery life, by reducing actual drive read time to short spurts and stopping the drive while playing from the cache. It's also how the ipod manages to be somewhat hardy to impact, because chances are when an impact happens the drive isn't actually moving. Went off on a slight tangent but hope the info helps
I'm contemplating sending my 5.5gen ipod to Vinnie, and it somewhat saddens me that I won't be able to burn it in as unattended due to being unable to plug a dock connector for power
