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Hi, I have a Toshiba 1.8" 20G HDD pulled from working iPOD. No bad sectors, works well. I want to trade for a Hitachi 2.5" 40G 5400rpm HDD. Anyone is interested?

I have an almost new one I found in the "room from hell" that I'd SELL to you, but I don't even know what an iPod does so I have no use for your drive in trade. 'Sorry. Heck, I still think a cell phone is something that's used only to make calls in an emergency and nothing else (thus my 10-year-old model suits me just fine thank you), so maybe I'll get to finding out about those iPod thingy's in the next decade! They're so small... where do the CD's fit in?

Now I have to go. Wilma just made some bronto-burgers from the one Barney & I clubbed last night, and if I don't rub those sticks together that fire in the pit isn't going to start by itself!

- Yak

yak, i think people are pulling iPod hd's and putting them in their portable laptops like the x-series if they need to or the ipod screen cracks or whatever the instance. an Ipod is an mp3 player by the way by Apple. They have sold a few billion of these things in the last few years and you can get them with up to an 80 gig hard drive

skitty4gzus wrote:yak, i think people are pulling iPod hd's and putting them in their portable laptops like the x-series if they need to or the ipod screen cracks or whatever the instance. an Ipod is an mp3 player by the way by Apple. They have sold a few billion of these things in the last few years and you can get them with up to an 80 gig hard drive

Ohhhh, mp3... That's where they take real music and subtract just enough content to make it sound like crap unless played through those 99-cent headphones you get with the $200 player?

Isn't it funny how the current generation is soooo picky about video that we all have to go out and buy $5000 TV's and $200/month service to replace the $299 TV's that worked just fine with our rabbit-ears and basic cable... but they could care less about audio as the game seems to be "how much can we take OUT of the music and still have it be identifiable?". I'd think the goal for both audio & video should be the same? No?

Will aluminum foil on my mp3 player improve the reception as well as it does on my TV antenna?

- Yak

I just use this HDD as a mobile storage. You can buy a USB 1.8" HDD enclosure on ebay, and then format the HDD to Fat32 or NTSF. It is just a little bigger than credit card.

brainpicker wrote:Ohhhh, mp3... That's where they take real music and subtract just enough content to make it sound like crap unless played through those 99-cent headphones you get with the $200 player?

Don't forget that all music created nowadays is mass produced crap

Still available.

skitty4gzus wrote:yak, i think people are pulling iPod hd's and putting them in their portable laptops like the x-series (...)

It's not the same form factor as the X40/X41 1.8" drive, though, is it?