Can you make an ipod work with an external hard drive?

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

Does anyone know if there's a way to rig an ipod to work with an external hard drive?

I had a crazy idea while taking a shower just now, to get an ipod adapter for my kenwood, buy myself a broken ipod with a bad battery/bad hard drive, and rig it to work with a HUGE 300 or 400 gig hard drive............

Anyone know if it would work?

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[.::DuD3::. 10+ year member]

maybe if the ipods hooked to the hd and the hu at the same time. i dont know, might could work.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

ya, the ipod adapter powers the ipod, so i could potentially buy one that has BOTH bad battery AND hard drive, and just build a rack in my glovebox for the drive

 

[NebBlackshirts 10+ year member]

that sounds extremely difficult

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

the physical hookup would only require getting a notebook to ide cable adapter, and a power supply for the drive, but i want to know if there's a way to format a hard drive, or if the ipod can even access a larger drive than it came with

 

[gr4v3_7 10+ year member]

Yes it is indeed possible, dosent look good, but hey if your putting it in a gove box or something, who cares.

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ipod_Nano_200gb_Instructions/Page_3

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Lol @ 6minute battery life...

nG

 

[Calikid 5,000+ posts]

imagine carrying this on your pocket.

LOL

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

oh man, that looks shoddy

i'll give it a wait and see if a harness is ever created

i'm not gonna rely on a bunch of spliced and soldered joints rattling around in the car

either someone will make a kit, or the bigger ipods will come down in price

OR i'll find a cheap music keg on egay, but they're usually SO expensive