120 GB iPod in less than a month - ready to be iModded

[OverlordXenu]

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Originally Posted by Contrastique /img/forum/go_quote.gif That is some great news! Though if I am not mistaken Apple will be releasing new ipods in September with probably bigger harddrives as well. Hopefully also with solid state drives. That would be a big pro. But anyways, thanx for sharing, since I am looking for upgrading my ipod into a bigger one.

Probably not...1. These new hi-capacity drives are much more expensive. 2. 32gigs of SSD is like $500-$700.

I cannot see it happening.

 

[lextek]

This might be a nice option for Red Wine/ALO to offer. I've bee reripping CD's in lossless and could use some more space.

 

[M0T0XGUY]

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Originally Posted by DavidMahler /img/forum/go_quote.gif I know this should really be posted in the portable audio section, but this section gets a lot more circulation so I thought I'd share this wonderful news with everyone. Samsung is releasing a 120 GB harddrive this month that will be able to be implemented into an ipod or Zune. I currently have a 100 GB iMod using a drive toshiba released 3 months ago. However, this 120 GB harddrive is the new thing and is no bigger than a 60 or 80 GB harddrive. You have two choices when purchasing the 120 GB harddrive. Choice one is you can purchase the drive for 300 bucks and either have them install it if you're just using an ipod, or have Vinnie install it if you're using an iMod. Choice two (and i like this one much better) is you can buy an 80 GB ipod and send it to them UNOPENED and they will switch the drives for a small fee and keep the harddrive the unopened ipod came with. After that, you can have your 120 GB harddrive iModded by vinnie. I figured this would be very attractive to people that encode at high bit rates. The harddrive comes with an extended life battery as well for free. Rapid Repair is an awesome company who I have dealt with for over a year and highly recommend them!

Sounds cool, but where do you see the option to send an unopened iPod and have then switch the drives? Also, how much does this option cost?

 

[epaludo]

Looks like a 120GB Imod may of of my next temptations ...

 

[dr.morton]

Hey, no compatibility with the 4G ???

 

[Febs]

The 4G uses a different type of drive. This page on the Rockbox website is useful for determining what replacement drives may work with a particular player:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/vie...lacement#Apple

 

[OverlordXenu]

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Originally Posted by Febs /img/forum/go_quote.gif The 4G uses a different type of drive. This page on the Rockbox website is useful for determining what replacement drives may work with a particular player: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/vie...lacement#Apple

Crap, it looks like the iPod video uses ZIF over ATA. Does that mean no 120gigs for my iAudio? :|

Is it so much to ask for a high-quality player with a nice screen, long battery life, a clean line out, some kind of digital out, and lots of storage space?

 

[Pangaea]

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Originally Posted by chukwe /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'll be surprise to see someone who uses up the 80GB on their Ipod.

...Surprised?

I have almost 500GB on my computer.

 

[OverlordXenu]

http://www.stolltech.ch/iriver.pdf

There may be hope for me!

 

[mrarroyo]

Yes the 4th Gen uses the IDE connector and the new ones the ZIF. I am hoping someone makes a cable to convert from IDE to ZIF.

 

[big-fi]

i don't know why most of you are excited to change it because of your encoding space..

in reality, only very very few (prolly none) of you can tell the difference between FLAC and 320...

 

[scompton]

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Originally Posted by chukwe /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'll be surprise to see someone who uses up the 80GB on their Ipod.

I have 113GB of 120 kbps AAC. A 100GB hard drive would probably be fine for me now, but by the end of the year, I'll be able to use a 120GB hard drive. Currently, I have an 80GB and every time I get a new CD, I have to delete something to put the new one on. It's a real pain.

 

[OverlordXenu]

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Originally Posted by big-fi /img/forum/go_quote.gif i don't know why most of you are excited to change it because of your encoding space.. in reality, only very very few (prolly none) of you can tell the difference between FLAC and 320...

No one may be able to tell the difference, but many people rip to FLAC for archival purposes. I know I do. And what reason is there to have MP3 and FLAC on your computer, wasting all those CPU hours to re-encode it?

Plus, that means you can carry around (at least part) of your music collection in case anything goes wrong.

 

[malcolm.mcintyre]

In 5 years the 120Gb Nano will be available and cost 200USD

 

[itsborken]

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Originally Posted by OverlordXenu /img/forum/go_quote.gif Is it so much to ask for a high-quality player with a nice screen, long battery life, a clean line out, some kind of digital out, and lots of storage space?

The market apparently says yes.