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iPod RAID?

Re: Don't burn out the iPod

Originally posted by bograt
I think it is the book called 'iLife' or something like that, can't remember but it does say something about the iPod not being able to last for long periods of time as a hard disk because of something. Personally this sounds like rubbish - but it could be true/useful.
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You shouldnt run the ipod for long periods as a straight up hard drive only because the damned thing gets really hot (really no ventilation for that HD in there) and, as we all know, too much heat makes computer parts fail. Im not 100% sure that the most recent iPods have the same heating issue as the older ones while using the iPod for prolonged Firewire HD activity, but that is still certainly a concern that must be met before starting this project.
 
Kudos to the person who actually set up the iRAID -- but is it clear that the iPods can ever be set up as iPods again? An earlier poster had suggested that initializing an iPod using Disk Utility might render it unusable as an iPod. I didn't see that that person had show this to be a reversable operation.
 
No problemo

Originally posted by idea_hamster
Kudos to the person who actually set up the iRAID -- but is it clear that the iPods can ever be set up as iPods again? An earlier poster had suggested that initializing an iPod using Disk Utility might render it unusable as an iPod. I didn't see that that person had show this to be a reversable operation.
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Of course you can revert it back. You are just changing the file system. No big deal. Same as switching from Mac (what I bought) to Windows (my laptop is IBM with Mandrake 9.1) file system. This was for the 2nd gen 10GB.
 
This is definitely one of those geek-cred, because-I-can things. Why reduce such a kick-ass music player to nothing but a hard drive, especially when you can get bigger and more high-performance drives for cheaper? And most definitely not if you're going to ruin the iPod for its intended purpose.

The iPod drive isn't designed to run steadily, either. As someone pointed out, there's no ventilation in that little case. I think Apple actually says that the buffer is larger so that the hard drive won't need to be accessed as often, increasing both battery life and the life of the drive. That would make it a poor candidate for a RAID array.
 
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