Yet my nearly two-year old 30 GB iPod w/Video has not had any trouble with the hard drive or anything else. I'd hardly consider hard drives crappy or failure prone. I obviously have to agree that SSDs are tougher, though.
I've always had good experiences with hard drives for 20 years of computing. Out of about sixteen hard drives, I've only had one fail (spindle bearings gave out) after eight years.
I'd be happy to use that 160 GB drive in the next iteration of iPods.
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Yet my nearly two-year old 30 GB iPod w/Video has not had any trouble with the hard drive or anything else. I'd hardly consider hard drives crappy or failure prone. I obviously have to agree that SSDs are tougher, though.
I've always had good experiences with hard drives for 20 years of computing. Out of about sixteen hard drives, I've only had one fail (spindle bearings gave out) after eight years.
I'd be happy to use that 160 GB drive in the next iteration of iPods.