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January 30, 2004
iPod as hard drive
Posted by Sandy
Apple called its digital music player the "iPod." Why? What does "iPod" have to do with music? Wouldn't something like "iJukebox" have made more sense?
One reason: the iPod has always been much more than a digital music player. It can also be used as an external hard drive, capable of moving gigabytes of data from computer to iPod and back very quickly (via FireWire on Mac or USB 2.0 in Windows). You can even install Mac OS X on the iPod's hard drive, and boot from it using Macs other than your own.
This story describes how the Lord of the Rings production team used iPods for quick data transfers during production of the film. I knew it was possible, but I'm impressed to read about a real-world use of the iPod as an external hard drive.
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1. Sean Carton on February 4, 2004 01:42 PM writes...
Thanks for posting this! Nobody ever talks about this, but it's a really, really useful feature. Recently when I upgraded from an iBook to a PowerBook, my iPod 30G made it REALLY easy to get my old stuff to my new computer. Today, I'm sacrificing some music space and using my iPod to keep backups of my "Documents" folder so that I've always got another copy of my work.
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