#Iflash sata upgrade#
#Iflash sata portable#

You can also purchase ZIF boards for different types of media. There are loads of boards available on the market, but be aware that, even though some uneducated sellers may advertise them as, theyвЂ™re not all suitable for the iPod Classic. We canвЂ™t get a suitable disk with this connector, so we need to convert it to something else.

The 1.8вЂі HDD fitted in the iPod Classic uses a ZIF (zero insertion force) connector, which is essentially a ribbon cable with a tiny plastic clamp connector. The first component youвЂ™re going to need will be a ZIF converter board. In total, the job took me about an hour and that was learning and taking photos along the way.

#Iflash sata portable#

I have years of experience playing with bigger hardware like desktop PCs, laptops, servers and the like, but IвЂ™d never opened up a portable device. Sounds good! What do I need to do this? YouвЂ™ll need a few components to make this work and a bit of effort and patience, but overall, it isnвЂ™t a hard job to do. IвЂ™ve not had mine installed long enough to judge the battery life just yet though. ItвЂ™s faster, itвЂ™s lighter and if you pay enough money and have a compatible iPod, theyвЂ™re bigger capacity too! From reports IвЂ™ve seen, the battery life is still great as well.

#Iflash sata upgrade#

A solid state disk (SSD) is a much better upgrade for your iPod Classic. ItвЂ™s a spinning disk after all, itвЂ™s not going to last forever, especially in a portable. The 1.8вЂі HDDs are hard to come by these days and are equally as prone to failure as the original disk. As the drives are prone to failure, why throw it away when you can replace it? And even better, why not upgrade it at the same time? Why would someone else want to do this upgrade? There are plenty of people out there like me who donвЂ™t like the modern iPods and would much rather use an iPod Classic. It gave me an excuse to upgrade the disk and have an almost new iPod. IвЂ™d paid a fair big of money for the device, although IвЂ™d managed to get it for a fair chunk cheaper than any others IвЂ™d seen so I wasnвЂ™t that bothered. They use a 1.8вЂі HDD which, as youвЂ™d expect with a spinning disk, doesnвЂ™t like getting shocked or moved aboutвЂ¦ which is going to happen quite often in a portable device! I determined after a while that the hard disk drive (HDD) was shot, a common problem with these devices. I picked it up and it was all in good nick, but after some playing around trying to get iTunes to read it. Years later, IвЂ™ve been aching to get another and I recently found a bargain 160GB iPod Classic Late 2009 model (7th Generation I believe) on Gumtree. Unfortunately, it got stolen with my car stereo and IвЂ™ve never seen it since. I had an iPod Classic about 7 years ago and it was a great device. Hell, even the 160GB in the iPod Classic isnвЂ™t enough for me but its good enough for going out and about! Add that to the fact the capacity available in an iPod Touch isnвЂ™t enough for me. If I wanted one, IвЂ™d buy an iPhone as it can do much more and makes more sense, but if IвЂ™m buying an iPod, I want a media player, so I donвЂ™t want it to be bogged down with all these apps that I donвЂ™t want nor need on my media player. Unfortunately, a few years ago Apple dropped the iPod Classic models in favour of their iPod Touch devices meaning its no longer possible to buy a brand new iPod Classic. The iPod is one of those devices that made Apple what it is today and are still widely regarded as the best portable media player on the market.