New Toshiba Hard Drives Could Boost iPod Classic to 220 GB

[jon08]

How about those of us that have more than 5 CDs worth of music?

My 160GB ipod is full, and it doesn't have all of my music on it (and yes, most of it in mp3 format). There is a pleasure in just having all your music on your ipod that you can shuffle through during an 8 hour work day. No managing playlists or deciding what to include and what to exclude on your piddly little 16GB ipod. No worrying about hearing the same song a few times a day. Just random play of over 30 years of accumulated music, form albums ripped into the computer to the free RCRD download I put on it last night...

Far from 'who cares'. I'll give you a nice Homer Simpson "arrrrrr" drool upon hearing of a (potential) 220GB capacity.

Well said! Along with the storage bump, it'd be nice to see some speed bumps as well in these HDDs...

Good thing I didn't buy a 160GB just yet (been considering it for the past month or so); I guess I'll wait for now and see if they update the classic line.

 

[jf.amadei]

I'm also quite interested by a possible 220gb iPod classic!

 

[janstett]

does anyone really need to store 220gb of music?

I guess if you rip raw though

I do; I have 47,000 songs (most of them are lossless and it takes up 850GB) and I'd like to play them on shuffle most of the time, but on occasion I know exactly what I want to listen to.

This site was selling 240gb upgrade kits somewhere around 2 years ago.

I have two iPod 5.5g classics with 240gb hard drives for a few years now. Unfortunately, the iPods DB software craps out at around 33,000 songs. And the popular replacement firmware RockBox doesn't help the problem.

I'd love it if Apple stepped up to the plate to support large collections.

If it's any consolation, nobody is getting this right. Out of frustration with the failed 240gb iPod I bought a 500gb Archos 5 Android tablet (it's small for a PMP but large compared to an iPod). Archos/Android don't get it right either, it, too, craps out at 35,000 songs.

I'm OK with Apple scrapping the classic and creating a "classic 2.0" -- iOS based with touch screen and a hard drive. A chunky iPod touch with 250-500gb storage.

 

[MacRacer]

MOVIES & TV SHOES are the only reason I kept my iPod Classic with the 160GB HD. I have ripped my entire DVD collection and have it all in iPod/iPhone format, H.264 @ 640x360 or 640x270 running 700Kbps, ACC @ 192Kbps. I have enough to take up my entire 2TB external HD. When I want to watch something, I copy it over and watch it on my MBP. A small amount says on my MBP and on my iPhone. I wish they made a 64GB or 128GB iPhone. I would die for one.

 

[michaelcyee]

Ow, janstett, you really hurt my eyes with that very colorful iTunes screenshot. It has...color. It feels like eons ago when I was joyful with iTunes 9 but was forced to upgrade since I got an iPod touch 4 that needed iTunes 10.