Arrived with dead hard drive.

The video has a hard drive, it has a little disc spinning inside it.

Most other MP3 players can be used as a hard drive as well

This would be a great backup hard drive and a great music player

Also, I have had my ipod since November and have experienced some minor glitches with the hard drive

If you have your own CDs, you can just rip them in your CD ROM drive into the program

The hard drive on my iPod with video is shot and I didn't even drop it or anything.

it has video playback and a 30gb hard drive at around the same price

so you can actually use it as an external hard drive where you can save important documents, so you can just forget about your memory stick.

How do I use my ipod as a Hard drive: Havent foubd a great way to do this.5

since you get 30gbs of hard drive space, you should convert your songs to 192kbps or

I love this ipod, is sleek, stilysh and simple, I dont have a lot of music so for me , the capacity is perfect, as I can also use it as a hard drive and can store all sorts of stuff in a simple manner

This product, don't forget, works off of a hard drive and hard drives will fail, so I would recommend spending the $59.

You CAN do that, if you enable the ipod to be used as a hard drive

It's a big hard drive with music playing software on it

My iPod didn't have a hard drive crash but instead a click wheel failure meaning I couldn't turn on my iPod unless it was hooked to the computer and then couldn't do anything with it.

Instead of a hard drive, it has "flash memory", which means the songs are digitally encoded into the machine itself, much like an mp3 player.

I had heard horror stories about the movement disrupting the hard drive, but I haven't had any problems

the ipod will pause unexpectadly and just slow up and freeze like a hard drive does out of nowhere(like when driving) and you know its dangerous to try to mess with that

During analysis, the hard drive seemed too much fragmanted

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

Third, as I stated earlier is that I bought an older 20GB model around christmas/new years 2004, and around Jan 2006 the hard drive crashed, causing me to buy a newer model

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.

I had it for 10 days and the hard drive malfunctioned.

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

Upon researching the iPod issues I found out that the iPod is a bad choice for runners and I ended up buying a SanDisk 1GB MP3 player because it was rated the highest for runners due to not having a moving hard drive which reduces the potential for the disc to scratch or skipping.

was that you also have carry a computer (USB 2, no less) on the road just to charge it (the only device I've ever seen that can't be charged by plugging into a wall outlet!) - not to mention even seeing what's on the iPod hard drive

Too bad the hard drive failed loading the songs.

HARD DRIVE FAILURE

and I use it like a hard drive, I use it to back things up, and I use it for a lot of other things

Hard Drive, moveing parts, jogging, need I say

be:30 GB 1.5-inch hard drive ~$100Chip enabling video playback, photo viewing, music playback and basic OS

The other thing I do is treat it like a camera, anything so compact like the ipod needs to be treated with extra care, after all a hard drive is spining around in that little box

I do not like how the iPod Hard drive spins and gets warm while watching a video though

This would be a great backup hard drive and a great music player

iPod broke already, hard drive sounds terrible!

rockbox lets you crossfade tracks, change themes, and use your ipod as an external hard drive.

This is a hard drive based MP3 player so every so often it takes about a second longer to skip to the next track.

The Mysic River site informs you on how to upgrade your hard drive, making it bigger, changing batteries and even skins

TO WAS THE MEMORY STORAGE DIFFERENCE FLASH TO HARD DRIVE

The size is smaller and supposedly the sound is crisper with less noise from the hard drive, I personally can't tell the difference.

This is a hard drive based MP3 player so every so often it takes about a second longer to skip to the next track

HARD DRIVE FAILURE

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.

it is hard drive based

It is a good program to store your music, but if you are like me and have tons of CD's and music, I recommend you get an external hard drive or get a second one installed, to put all your music there

cuz i backed up my hard drive with it and it doesn't mess it up

Since they first came out in 2001, I've bought 3 hard-drive-based iPods

In any event, I decided to cut my losses and bought a hard-drive-based mp3 player of different make

See, the iPod functions as an external hard drive, so you can backup all sorts of data

Apple Store opened up hard drive had an orange sticky note on it with unintelligible hand writing

You can make as many backups of your music library on as many hard drives on as many computers as you like

My wife has a 3rd Gen iPod 40GB that has been returned for the hard drive crashing twice, fortunatly we bought the 3 year extended warranty.

The iPod uses a hard-drive to store music, so it isn't as good for people who listen on the go as some flash-memory devices are

Keep in mind that this is my opinion and you know as well as I if you were thinking about getting one of these (or not

First the positives--I have the 30GB version and have found the transfer time from windows to be insignficant, sound quality is terrific and the slim design a nice plus

you know as well as I thats a stupid reason not to get one of these

I first received an i-pod that didn't work properly, but the vendor quickly replaced it for

Trust me on this one i hav a black i pod and its awesome

There are also iPod A/V cables available that allow composite video and audio output, for connecting your iPod to your television