The iPods tiny hard drive! #apple #ipod #retrotech

[TheMateo]

Never had the heart to swap a SSD into my ipods. Feeling the drive spin up every few songs is too nostalgic to me.

[grantbrownson]

It’s amazing just how small Toshiba was able to make the hard drives, heck, I never knew that usb thumb drives used to have a hard drive in it until I ran into a video about it. Crazy how fast technology has improved over the years.

[anthonyimouche]

I have a 2009 iPod and In a very silent room you can actually hear the hard drive speed up and slow down it's pretty cool

[crypticrug]

That is the cutest hard drive Ive ever seen. 😂

[aeonhelendale]

To argue, atleast when the dish drive started failing, you could audibly and visibly tell through sound and performance. When a solid state of any kind begins dying, it just stops working completely and suddenly.

[JakeLauer]

They actually made CompactFlash form factor spinning hard drives even smaller than that one for use in early digital cameras

[jamesdriver]

Fun/weird fact: the hard drives used in the iPod classic 5/6/7 is the same hard drives used in the original MacBook Air. There was an SSD upgrade Apple had at the time for an extra $1000 (keep in mind solid state drives were expensive as they were somewhat new technology so that’s not too ridiculous for one) and they used the iPod hard drives to keep the MacBook Air super thin.

[TheSkulletMan]

I buy every iPod shuffle I can. The tiny ones. They are perfect for workouts and cycling! I wish they’d bring those back! I don’t even know how many work that I have anymore :(

[sctte]

I remember having one of the bigger white ones. You knew it had a hard drive in it because you could hear it and the gyro effect it had when you rotated it

[themotorsportfanaticyt]

I still have an iPod classic from 2007 (i use it on my commute to college as my route is underground) and whenever I skip like three songs in my playlist i can hear the lil thing spin up)

[rocket_is_so_flipping_cool]

this is so cute?? its making me kind of emotional??

[FINNIUSORION]

I still have a little 8gb ipod i use for music in my old truck with the cassette tape adapter. It makes me feel old when my kids call it an antique lol.
And i never thought about changing it out for an ssd. Ill remember that when it finally fails.

[fotorajko]

For those who admire Apple, this drive was engineered and manufactured by japanese companies like Toshiba and Hitachi

[qdaniele]

There were even memory cards based on those small 1" HDDs and used in come cameras of the time.

[Goodish_night]

That's adorable. Honestly with as interesting and informative as this is I'm surprised this doesn't have far more views and likes

[dennisfahey]

Those mini drives were first developed for RAID boards that plugged into EISA/ ISA slots. A single long card would have these stuffed on the front and rear side with a controller to make them appear as one fairly big but very fast drive. They were tremendously expensive but if you needed it - you needed it. The primary markets were digital audio workstations and scientific logging and geological mapping systems.

[fleefflorf]

that is legitimately adorably. its so tiny! :D

[josephclapp]

I would like to hop on here and say that solid state does still deteriorate over time. You’ll still need to swap your storage eventually. Sometimes the lifespan of an SSD is around 10 years of normal usage, but can vary to around 2-3 years if used heavily.

[tonecold]

That's actually pretty cool. I love breakdowns like this

[Yagunitto]

how can we be sure that you are not a giant holding a regular hdd?