Make an external drive from an iPod?

Not sure this is such a good idea. These drives weren't made for sustained rads and writes.

 

Try googling for 1.8" Hard Drive enclosure.
Here's one result.

 

? An iPod is by definition going to be a lifetime of reads and writes.

 

Do you have a source for this information? They use an off the shelf drives.

Apple doesn't think it is a bad idea:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1478

 

Back in the day I used to simply format my iPod (while losing it's iPod capabilities) I would then, in turn, have an external drive. Simply using the restore function brought the iPod capabilities back.

 

Keep in mind you'll need a ZIF to [whatever kind of drive you get] converter, like this one if you get a SATA drive.

 

You don't need to. I mean i use my ipod as an external harddrive some times. I mean you can just connect it to your mac (assuming you use a mac) and just see it on the desktop you can drag things in and use it, just don't delete the other stuf fon tehere already and you can do it however you want. No need to take it out.