I just successfully transplanted a Samsung HS122JB (120GB ZIF connector drive) into my 5.5G iPod 80GB. It's a direct swap, fits and works perfectly. The only "mod" I had to make was that the plastic "drive holder" piece had to be put in backwards.
The Samsung drive is noticeably quieter than the original Toshiba, and uses slightly less battery power too. It also has 8MB cache instead of the Toshiba's 2MB, and the i/o performance while syncing songs "seems" faster. Of course, "fast" is relative here, as it is still painfully slow in disk mode, and re-populating all my music took a l-o-n-g time.
P.S. I run rockbox on this iPod so I could avoid iTunes and be able to play FLAC and Ogg Vorbis files.
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