Pros:Large Hard Drive for the $$

It takes forever, doubles the space your music collection occupies on your hard drive, and will frequently make doubles of all your songs for no reason, in the Apple music format

Also wait until you can get an ipod with a solid state drive--forget the spinning drive thing.

at least) they figured out it as a hard drive problem, on my ipod

My hard drive failed 2 weeks after the warranty expired and the best thing I can do with it

Even I use my Ipod like a 20GB Hard Drive, is exellent

You can drop your files on here from your home computer, go to school and hook it up to a computer there and get the files off of the iPod without having to burn CD's or put them on faulty flash drives or zip discs

After all an iPod is a circuitry with a hard-drive.

Pros:More than enough hard drive space for most people (5,000 songs)Incredibly easy to

this is not a good mp3 player the hard drive fails after a year and the battery sucks it also fails pretty fast.

Copy all my music, using Media Player, to my hard drive once again

HARD DRIVE FAILURE

No, I didnt just get sold on the hip marketing, but as a techie, I can use it as a portable hard drive and copy data to back up Win and Mac machines in a flash when I work on people's computers.

The audio output hardly could be better; you can reach a single song out of 5000 within three clicks (the Apple click wheel is one of the best control tools I've ever seen) and the access to the 20 GByte hard drive is surprisingly fast

I am now on my 3rd player, having had catastrophic hard drive failure after catastrophic hard drive failure for no apparent reason.

Pros:- THX, DOLBY DIGITAL quality music centre that fits in your palm.- Cosmos sized tiny hard drive.- Design and Clickwheel.- Apple supportCons:- Mains Power Adaptor Costs extra.- Tracks pause between each other.- MP3 files must be

I also use this as an external hard drive

If your hard-drive breaks just like mine after one year, you will get to hear this for the first time.

Apple will send you a refurbished unit and they won't even switch out the hard drive

The most delicate part of an ipod is the fact that it has a spinning hard drive in it, which makes it very prone to damage

We plan on replacing the 20GB iPod with a Creative Zen: I just wished that the Zen Vision had a 60GB hard drive.

On the other hand, if you plan on using the iPod mostly at home (i.e. docked as an external hard drive with portability as a nice bonus), this may be a worth while purchase

Once you delete any music out of your hard drive's I-tunes memory, then reconnect your Ipod at a later time, any and all music you deleted from your hard drive is lost from your Ipod, as well

That being said the hard drive can also be a wonderful thing

In the rare case that did not do it, I also unplug the hard drive and then plug both back in and it still works to this day.

The young man explained to us that the hard drive lies just inside a fairly thin shell and that it doesn't take that much pressure from books in a bag or briefcase to destroy the hard drive

If your Dell hard drive crashes and you don't call before the warraty is expired, don't expect too much help or sympathy

There are also models available that offer 30, 40, and 60GB, but unless someone wants to use an iPod to back up their computer hard drive, the 20GB model is more than enough to hold most peoples entire collection of music and pictures twice over, so why spend more money than necessary

If you look at other hard-drive based mp3 players, they're all at least double the size (if only in depth) as the iPod

It's a good portable Hard Drive and manages many other small functions with typical Apple-ease

Advantages:-bang for your buck (competitively priced hard drive capacity)-ease of use-asthetic appeal-

My $299.00 technological marvel, my portable music librarian, my expensively priced modern convenience's hard drive had failed

My $299.00 technological marvel, my portable music librarian, my expensively priced modern convenience's hard drive had failed

It's a good portable Hard Drive and manages many other small functions with typical Apple-ease

The hard drives are not great though and once it starts to freeze sell it quick or plan in getting another

It is so much smaller and lighter than those other hard drive based players and I'd have a hard time going to anything that is bigger than the ipod

You still need to keep your music files on your computer in order to have your music in your iPod!The good:20GB of hard drive space

So far so goodI do recommend it because it can act as an external hard drive as well for backups and things like that

Considering the fact that just about any CD you purchase and "rip" to your hard drive will be formatted as a WMA file, iTunes version 4.5 (included with new iPod releases) contains an auto-converter that converts WMA to MP3 for iPod compatability

Also on the same note, I got a new hard drive for my computer and re-installed all the software

So be very careful of deleting music from your hard drive before getting good backups

On the other hand, if you plan on using the iPod mostly at home (i.e. docked as an external hard drive with portability as a nice bonus), this may be a worth while purchase

Because it is a hard drive, it has moving parts unlike other MP3 players, perhaps making it more prone to catastrophic damage.

AND - if you don't want to keep 20GB of music stored on your hard drive, then don't bother with an Ipod that has so much memory.

If your hard-drive breaks just like mine after one year, you will get to hear this for the first time.

I'm told by the techs that it's the hard drive and cannot be fixed

You load the MP3 files into the Library of the iTunes software and see if you have the lists alright before finally dumping the chosen library selections onto the iPod's hard drive and taking your whole music collection for a walk on your hip

In iTunes, you can enable the iPod to be used as a hard drive

The hard drive went

No, I didnt just get sold on the hip marketing, but as a techie, I can use it as a portable hard drive and copy data to back up Win and Mac machines in a flash when I work on people's computers.

I can certainly understand licensing issues and concerns, but there doesn't seem any added security in requiring all the songs ripped from CD to reside on the hard drive

I am ready for flash memory in these things the spinning hard drive models are crap -- fundamentally a bad idea, but BEST OPTION for porting large files of data between work and home

This was not just a pricey hard drive that plays your music

I knew that the hard-drive was fragile, and the words "fragile" and "teenager" are not normally a good mix.

so much memory is to save the space on my hard drive!! )

But if you don't, it is not worth it unless you use your iPod for an external hard drive

Pros:More than enough hard drive space for most people (5,000 songs)Incredibly easy to

I put all of my favorite tunes from my CD collection on my ipod, about 500 songs, and it's only taking up about 1.5 G of space on the hard drive

Don't obsess over the hard drive space, unless you wanna put every single item of music you ever bought on here and then sort and categorize them

I got a 120GB drive, and now I plan to get a 2nd 120GB drive to use for backups (because I don't want to have to rip over 400 CDs again if my drive goes bad!)

You can also use it as an external hard drive to back-up documents, photographs, etc

I believe that the ipod was the first Hard Drive based player on the market and they have improved the design and function with each new generation

It was always the hard drive

Have 11 hours on now and only about 695 meg used on the hard drive.

Pros:Large Hard Drive for the $$

The battery still works but the hard drive seems to have given up the ghost.

Finally, the size and weight are fantastic for a 20 gig hard drive, but again, it's just a little too heavy to be effortlessly portable, to where you don't have to think about it

The only inconvenience I can find with the iPod is the necessity of having every MP3 on the iPod stored on one's hard drive

First off it has a 20gb hard drive which can store 5,000 songs

I've tried to install new software but the hard drive just sits and clicks.

when you later plug it into your computer the PC will recognize it as an external device rather than an actual iPod, and you will not be able to use the iTunes software until you access your device manager and change the iPod "hard drive" to a new letter

Its large hard drive allows me to carry up to 20 GB (or up to 5,000 songs) around with me on the go, but yet still maintains a petite package that fits in the palm of your hand.

However, since it's such a waste if I just use this as a hard drive, I found the solution to this by buying Griffin's Air Click ($40)(Even with this, my iPod cannot provide me with game, schedule, shuffling, sleep timer setup, or changing of albums and languages)

HARD DRIVE FAILURE

He then went on to explain that it is a hard drive player and if it is jostled around too much, it eventually fails

I tend to use it as a portable hard drive now because I upgraded to a flash-based player with much more space, battery life, and awesome sound quality.

Then we have the iPod Nano which is amazingly small, but that does not make up for the lower durability and the high price for much less hard drive space

The 20GB is considerably slower than the mini, due to the larger hard drive.

My minor recurring hard-drive problems unexpectedly killed my IPOD.

Unlike other MP3 devices, you can make thousands of different kinds of playlists, and it also secretly double as a seperate hard disk drive, where you can store various kinds of documents conviently

The 40GB click wheel iPod I bought for my husband for Christmas last year died (hard drive fried) 360 days after he opened the box but one year and 3 weeks past when I bought it.

If you've got most of your stuff on a hard drive already, you'll be tempted to just throw everthing onto the 'Pod, likely filling it up in a jiffy.

I tend to use it as a portable hard drive now because I upgraded to a flash-based player with much more space, battery life, and awesome sound quality.

The "Genius" then said that just stepping off the curb the wrong way when a song is playing or changing to another song will eventually cause hard drive failure.

Hard drive screws up occasionallyWarranty expires only after a year

If you don't the Ipod will automatically erase the files on it's drive and replace them with the files on the second computer each time you plug it in

That's when the hard drive

The hard drive from Fujitsu, has a useful life of 20,000hrs, pdasmart.com also replaces these along with the screens, if yours gets broken

Every one with a faulty hard drive

With the iPod, you can also store documents and contact files (from programs such as Microsoft Outlook) when it's connected to your PC as an external hard drive

I hope you enjoy your I-Pod!