Comments on: Upgrading iPod Hard Drives

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:10:44 +0000

I tried to upgrade my 20gb 4th gen ipod’s HD with a Toshiba MK8025GAL w/ZIF. I bought a ZIF to IDE micro converter http://www.uxsight.com/product/28035/zif-micro-ide-hdd-adapter-converter.html It was a little tight but everything fit. I can’t get it to go into either reset or disc mode. Itunes doesn’t recognize it. It keeps cycling apple logo, blank screen, then unhappy face and finally the charging logo. It will keep doing this until I disconnect it. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I might be doing wrong. The 2 parts are new and I tested the HD and it works fine plugged into my desktop via USB. Thank you

By: Terence Griffin

Terence Griffin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:41:21 +0000

My age old 40 Gb iPod 3G’s HDD died an honorable death after a long life. I’m looking a replacement options. I’ve ruled out going to flash, as tempting as that sounds. I’d like to increase the capacity. I’m looking a going to 80 Gb. The options I’m considering are an MK8007GAH, which looks like it would be a simple swap, or a MK8009GAH with a ZIF to ATA adapter (http://snipurl.com/ulkre [www_amazon_com]). The 8007 cost abou $225 (!!!). The 8009 is about $75 and the adapter is about $25.

My question is can I fit the 8009 + adapter into my iPod 3G? The length og the 8007 is 3.1 in and the 8009 is 2.8 in. I’m not sure how much space the adapter takes up. Thoughts? THANKS!

By: marky

marky — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:05:44 +0000

I’m considering buying a Samsung HS060HB to replace a 5th gen ipod’s drive (U2 special edition 30gb).

Will that work?

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:35:59 +0000

@justin – The iPod Touch doesn’t have a hard drive. Those have flash based storage.

@carlo – The HS030GA is 5mm thick, in order to upgrade to the MK1011GAH you’d need to purchase a larger back panel to accommodate the thicker hard drive.

By: carlo

carlo — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:25:26 +0000

Hi!

my ipod’s hard disk is broken. its a 30gig made by samsung (HS030GA) with an apple logo on it. is it ok to upgrade to a toshiba MK1011GAH 100gig hard disk? thanks!

carlo

By: justin

justin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:55:07 +0000

i have ipod touch 8 gig third gen. wats the biggest hard drive i can get for it ?

By: kyle

kyle — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:59:33 +0000

I bought an original ipod hard drive. The one meant for my model. I went through the necessary steps you said. But when I plug the ipod into my computer after disk mode is started it says I need to connect using firewire. So I connect using firewire but then nothing happens at all and the computer doesn’t recognize it?

By: Rohit Ojha

Rohit Ojha — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:35:06 +0000

I have an ipod video 5g, my hard disk (MK3008GAL) just crashed since it was dropped. Please help me, where do i get a new hard disk, i am searching for a 100gb or a 240gb(MK2431GAH) prefered, where do i get it, and what could be the best cost for it?
thank you!!

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:55:06 +0000

Now there seems to be a thin 80gb hard drive available, that can be a straight swap for a 30gb drive.
Samsung HS081HA 80GB hardrive from iPod Classic.

BUT I have heard that some of the bigger drives are NOT compatible with SOME logic boards from the earlier 5G series.

So does anyone know about this? and if so how do you identify a logic board that can accept a bigger hard drvie from those that can’t?

By: Steve Wiese

Steve Wiese — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:15:06 +0000

My son has a 30 gig 5g (model A1136). He said the drive is clicking. He bought a new one. I thought I would fix this old one. I see you listed in March of 08 that a 60 gig Seagate drive would fit. (Seagate ST760211DE 60 GB 5mm drive). Now in 2010 is there a larger capacity 1.8″ 5mm drive with the proper connector that will fit? I haven’t opened it up yet but I assume it’s a zif. Have I asked the right questions? What are my options? I feel comfortable taking this apart as I have torn apart numerous laptops.