I've been reading for two days straight about innovations in audio tech and essentially the basics of sampling, bit depth, audio quality, etc. I knew that MP3s sounded like garbage and I prefer the sound of FLAC vinyl rips. I listen to a lot of Brubeck, Coltrane, Miles Davis, etc as well as...

Quote: Were you ever able to get some sort of mSATA to work for either Rockbox or the standard iPod OS?

Quote: Also, do the SATA LIF to ZIF connectors work on the iPod classic 6th/7th gen? It sounds like it doesn't work with Rockbox, but does it work with the stock iPod OS?   It looks like this, according to the link, might work with the quoted adapter.  ...

So... after thinking about this and thinking about which drive to replace my dead iPod (I think 6th gen? it's a 120 GB with aluminum front), I was about to buy a cheap ssd off ebay, but it appears not all of them work. For one, I would like to know how reliable these drives are in this config...