My iPod hard drive is full. Can I upgrade the hard drive?

My iPod hard drive is full. Can I upgrade the hard drive?

Posted 10/05/2007 at 11:06am | by Mac|Life Staff

Absolutely - provided you use the appropriate upgrade drive.

 

If you have a first- or second-generation iPod - one with 5GB, 10GB, or 20GB hard-drive capacity and buttons encircling the control wheel - you can only replace the hard drive with one from another first- or second-gen iPod. Finding the right drive might be tricky, but we've seen (allegedly) new ones on eBay.

 

If you have a third generation or later iPod, then you can install any current 1.8-inch Toshiba hard drive ($125 for 20GB, www.macmall.com) and the iPod will happily accept it.

 

Consult Newer Technology's iPod-disassembly instructions; technically, the instructions refer to replacing the battery, but that's right next to the hard drive - you can figure it out from there yourself. Or you could pay someone else to do the deed for you - TechRestore offers the service with prices ranging from $110 to $190.

 

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Anonymous

October 05, 2007 at 12:58pm

This is good news - I've got a recently dead 3G/30G iPod and am running Panther on 2 800MHz G4s (iBook and iMac) - yes I'm a dinosaur. But that means that both a new iPod (not compatible with Panther) and Leopard (not compatible with 800MHz G4) are a nogo.

So I can get another 30G Toshiba and make it work like new, I guess. But what about upgrading to the newer available 1.8 drives? Are the 3G iPod's capacity-limited by their software/firmware? Or can I put anything into it - a 160GB 3G ipod?

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Anonymous

October 05, 2007 at 2:57pm

My mistake - it's a 4G (click wheel) iPod.

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