The Gizmophile

The hard drive finally came in the mail today.  What a quick turn around and for 20 bucks plus free shipping, I can’t complain.  Looks like I made a mistake though and only got the 10gb version instead of the 20gb model.  It’s OK since I don’t think I’ll use up that much space.  In fact, I don’t ever recall putting more than 10gb of mp3’s on this iPod.

As you can see from the picture, it looks about the same as the old one.  With the exception of the model number and the Apple logo, it looks like the old drive and based on what I found, this hard drive should work just fine with my iPod.  We’ll see about that.

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After six long years, my iPod finally died and I think it was a slow and painful death too.  It had been acting up recently and it was making clicking sounds over the last month or two.  I am impressed that this iPod lasted for this long and I’m sure it will last a few more years assuming I can revive it or waste 25 bucks trying.

So instead of buying a new or used  iPod, iPhone, etc, I thought it would be more fun to crack it open and experiment a little.  Judging by the error on the display and the clicking noises, I was pretty sure that the hard drive is dead.  Luckily, a new replacement drive is only about 25 bucks on eBay – definitely cheaper than buying another device.

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