Why do you claim that?
The 6th generation iPod Classic shipped with a 160GB drive. I have one and mine is most definitely not running the Rockbox OS.
When you "mod" any motherboard from a 6th gen 80gb, 6th gen 160gb or 7th gen 120gg, (with the
exception of the 6th 160gb model, but ONLY when using original hard drive), each of these mb's has
a 128gb memory limitation built into them when using them with itunes. I've already tried to connect
a 256gb ssd msata to a 6th gen mb and sure enough, it only recognized 127gb's out of the total 256.
I don't know what the exact definition of it is, having brain farts right now, but this info is most
definitely true when hardware modding any of these models if you plan on using itunes as your
default program to sync ipod. I've only used an older version of Rockbox years ago, but that was
ages ago where I don't remember a thing about that program. I believe I still have the ipod it's
loaded onto, I'll have to dig it out sometime and mess with it. Hope this bit of info helps though.
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Hello, thanks for your reply. It was very useful.
No, I haven't purchased anything yet, but I'm still keen to get my hands on a Classic in some form. I've spent these few weeks just researching and looking at sellers on eBay.
Think I prefer the mSATA route too.
Love the picture you posted!
Here's some more pics to possibly tickle your fancy. I don't know if you like any of the gold colored
faceplates/backplates they have available, but here's a couple I built a couple years ago now.
I originally wanted to do gold faceplate/backplate style ipods with a red clickwheel and gold center
button, so I built around 10 of those. I opted to use a thick style gold backplate to accommodate
a 2000mah battery, powering a 256gb Samsung SSD connected to a Tarken iFlash SSD adapter
board.
I also took a moment to test one of these batteries in the first one that I built. I loaded the ipod
up with around 10k tracks and gave the battery a full charge. I hooked up a pair of headphones,
set it at 2/3's volume, put ipod on shuffle mode and timed it from a full charge to completely
dead, where the ipod literally shuts off itself, and I hit well over 100 hours of continuous play
on one charge. Needless to say I was quite impressed. I have a couple of co-workers who are
some proud owners of my builds, still using them to this day, (not too long, around 2 years now)
but all of them are not only working absolutely flawlessly for them, but some have noted that
they've gone over 3 weeks on a single charge. I believe complete charge time is around 5 hours.
Not too shabby for close to and/or over 100 hours worth of playtime on one charge.
But anyhoo, if you ever have any questions, shoot me a reply or message me if you'd like.
I'm of any help you may need in your decision. If you are at all handy and have some good
steady hands you could even build one yourself. A majority of it is all modular plug and play
type connections. There are very few raw "mods" that need to be done in order build one
yourself if you were at all possibly inclined.
Tips:
If you went the SSD route, (I personally also prefer) you simply cannot go wrong with a
Tarken iFlash SSD adapter board. I've never had a problem with any of them. I've used
around 40 of them so far from him.
SSD boards that I've used without issue, in this order: Samsung, Toshiba, Lite-on (Toshiba)
Depending on how much memory you'd like to get with it, here's what I've done thus far
using Tarken's adapter boards. If you were only looking at 64gb or 128gb worth of memory
you can use a thin backplate with a 850mah battery that'll give you around 12 hours playtime.
If you wanted to 256gb or higher, you'd most definitely want one that has a thick backplate
with at least a 1900mah battery. If you were to build one yourself, make sure that you get
a thick backplate headphone jack/hold switch to go with it. It's longer for the thicker case.
The higher you go in memory the more chips/memory banks you have on the SSD to "fire up",
thus requiring more power, which is especially important when it comes to syncing the ipod.
Apple actually has a cable that I use constantly in applications such as this with my classics.
It's a 30pin head that splits into 2 cables, a USB cable and a Firewire cable. You'd need a
firewire charger though, but what it does is it keeps the ipod powered on through the firewire
connection while you are syncing the ipod through the usb connection. You can, as far as I
believe, only do this on the classic models. Nonetheless, a definite cable worth owning for
what I do, you know?
Alright, sorry for the book. Here's some pics to check out if you'd like. I'm currently using
the see-through model. It's originally an 80gb 5.5 gen motherboard that I have modded,
but I'm only using a simple (generic) SSD adapter board and a samsung branded drive.
It works great, but the adapter board maintains no memory. It runs like basically booting
up a computer if I shut it off for more than 2 days. I have to wait around 30-40 seconds
for it to load, but other than the boot-up time it's been working flawlessly for around 2
years now too.. I've dropped it twice already though, glad I've had it in a case....
The other classics you'll see are builds that I've done. These are originally 7th gen 160gb
models that have been modded to a Samsung 256 SSD, Tarken iFlash SSD adapter, thick
gold U2 backplate to accommodate a 1900mah battery. All parts I used are brand new
including the front plate, back plate, headphone jack/hold switch, clickwheel and center
button, to name a few. I use the original motherboard (of course) and the LCD screen
if there are no visible blemishes in it.
