iPod Nano : 200Gb
Posted by Mr magoo on 12 October 2005 - 15:44 · 50 comments & 11713 views
If Apple's announcements later today don't amuse, this certainly will. Take one recently released iPod Nano; add 200Gb hard disk (plus a little hardware hacking) and what does one get? The biggest (literally) media player on the planet.

"The iPod Nano is a great testament to clean engineering, design, and efficiency in a portable device. However, Apple failed to consider that the available storage capacity is very small! UncycloMedia Commons has released this guide to installing additional storage on your iPod Nano brand device. It might be a good idea to set aside a good two to three hours to installing this addon, but it's pretty easy to perform, as long as you know what you're doing."

The website details the procedure of removing the memory units on the nano, and attaching a ATA adaptor in their place. With a powerful boast of being able to hold '150,000 minutes of music', you'll be the talk of the town - that is - for the six seconds the unit is now able to run for.

Quite possibly the wackiest, and coolest hack, we've ever seen - if it is real, that is. Stay tuned for more Apple news later today!

Update - we'll have coverage on the Apple conference today coming soon; the above, yes, appears to be fake.

View: Photo of iPod Nano (mirror) | Details of the hack

Version 3.51
Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed two vulnerabilities, which could be exploited with specially crafted ACE and UUE/XXE archives;
  • Previous version did not delete some of temporary files;
  • WinRAR could crash when processing very long (more than 1024 characters) archive name parameter in the command line.


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Toxikk on 12 Oct 2005 - 15:48
yeah, ima carry that around. hahahaha.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by kronik on 12 Oct 2005 - 15:51
zomg I want one
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by mundox on 12 Oct 2005 - 15:54
well that guy doesnt have much photoshop skillz... it actually looks VERY fake
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by laz on 16 Oct 2005 - 14:22
He could've done better just by taking a picture of a nano strapped to a HD.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Rob.Baker on 12 Oct 2005 - 15:55
I thought this was the new iPod or somethign! I got so excited i fell over!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by xpgeek on 12 Oct 2005 - 15:56
hahaha pic is funny
(5 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by stevodotorg on 12 Oct 2005 - 15:56
is it me or does "ipod_nano_hack.jpg" look photoshopped?
Quote this comment #6.1 Posted by Zero1 on 12 Oct 2005 - 15:57
The picture looks VERY fake, and it seems to have been edited with Photoshop CS2 (according to tag info).

I dont know if that page on uncyclopedia is the same one that I saw the other day (it wont load for me) but if it is this is 100% fake... the photos on the one I saw were taken off the nano stress test article posted on the forums not long ago.

Check in one of the images of the article if it loads where it shows the connector and look at the red wires...
Quote this comment #6.2 Posted by larz on 12 Oct 2005 - 15:59
yes, definitly does, in fact i think thats an official apple picture of the nano...
Quote this comment #6.3 Posted by haisdeaks on 12 Oct 2005 - 15:59
yer id agree there.... i saw this on the forum ages ago but i thought it was fake or a joke
Quote this comment #6.4 Posted by sphbecker on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:29
I actually think the picture looks real; that is to say that he took a picture of a nano strapped to a hard drive with a few wires which you conveniently cannot see.

I would say this is fake because it looks like the nano is powering the hard drive; which would not be possible with the little battery inside a nano. Also, all you can see are 4 power cables there don't seem to be any single cables connecting the nano to the hard drive.
Quote this comment #6.5 Posted by Pdj79 on 12 Oct 2005 - 19:19
I've had this argument in other forums and I might as well bring it here as well. The photo is a fake. The blog that had the directions on doing this started out with a black iPod Nano, then suddenly it became a white Nano. Not only that, but if you read any magazines that are currently running Nano ads, you'll notice that the song on the Nano in the ads is the exact same song on this Nano, including the time marker and the track number. And to add further proof that this is BS, the original article claims that the drive saps the battery instantly and can only get in a couple minutes of playtime before it dies, but as you can see by the photo, the song has been playing for around 3 minutes and the battery indicator is still full. TOTAL BS!!!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by FiREFLi on 12 Oct 2005 - 15:59
Funny. Somewhat disappointing after reading the exciting looking title :o
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by Antiprophet on 12 Oct 2005 - 15:59
haha, i want one
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by thefunkymunky on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:00
Why has this made front page news when it is obviously a fake. And so badly done too.
Quote this comment #9.1 Posted by DrunkenMaster on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:05
I think its quite funny. Holding it together with some elastics and such. Defeats the whole purpose of portable music. Maybe its also poking fun at the idea that 40 GB or 80 Gb iPods aren't big enough.... so what's next.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by RiddickRom on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:05
Can I get a RAID version of this?
Quote this comment #10.1 Posted by mrbester on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:34
<obSlashdot>Image a Beowulf cluster of those!</obSlashdot>
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #11 Posted by dougal.s on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:09
The guys says on the page it is a fake!!

Is it just me or is neowins news getting more behind everyone else? This was reported on several other news sites over a week ago!!

Get with the program people, you've disappointed me a few times recently!!

Dougal.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #12 Posted by Computer Guru on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:15
This exists. ts called hooking up your ipaq to a 4 GB CF card.

Language please.

--matt74441
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #13 Posted by neufuse on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:19
the fact the article says

QUOTE
(1) Chain Saw
(1) Brass Monkey

Note that this set of instructions will not work with the black version


says fake enough...


one chain saw and brass monkey? give me a beak

and there is NOTHIGN different about the black one between it and the white one unless u wana say racism
Quote this comment #13.1 Posted by GoogleNinja on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:32
Note to self: Neufuse does not know the meaning of "sarcasm" or "joke"... Do not attempt to use either in his presence.
Quote this comment #13.2 Posted by Ivand on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:33
Say, Joke?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #14 Posted by sala on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:21
it's not fake! if you know something about ide standard and ide interfaces you would be thinking differently
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #15 Posted by AshMan on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:28
Welcome to last week!
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=380787
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #16 Posted by phedot on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:52
Is it me or Uncyclopedia.org is being Slashdoted?!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #17 Posted by Mx² on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:52
100% FAKE.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #18 Posted by adinu79 on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:54
Uncyclopedia ... clearly a prank.

And yes, it's being slashdotted.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #19 Posted by Airlink on 12 Oct 2005 - 16:55
Hahah... that's a good joke.
six seconds of play time. Next he'll release an upgrade to this mod that adds a car battery, a step-down transformer, and a skateboard: for maximum battery life and portability.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #20 Posted by FtheRIAA on 12 Oct 2005 - 17:08
What's even funnier is that this has been posted on other site like Gizmodo and the life for over a week and a half now and proven to be fake on those sites. So no offense to Neowin here, but you're a little behind on this fake news.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #21 Posted by Zero1 on 12 Oct 2005 - 17:11
Anyone who still thinks its real just look at this pic from it:

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Imageissection_circuit_board.jpg

QUOTE

Photoshopped from ArsTechnica. Remove if sued.

From: http://www.funet.fi/pub/msx/photos/hardware/Sunrise_IDE-interface.jpg
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #22 Posted by teejaydm on 12 Oct 2005 - 17:18
Its possible but the picture is fake as stated above.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #23 Posted by thenay on 12 Oct 2005 - 17:23
No so nano anymore.. lol
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #24 Posted by King Rilian on 12 Oct 2005 - 17:26
Seriously, come on, this isn't April Fools' Day.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #25 Posted by cold-peak on 12 Oct 2005 - 17:33
this was posted in the forum ages and ages ago!
Quote this comment #25.1 Posted by King Rilian on 12 Oct 2005 - 17:36
Quite impossible, considering the Nano hasn't been out for ages and ages.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #26 Posted by FiREFLi on 12 Oct 2005 - 17:44
This should be removed, totally pointless.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #27 Posted by Jfkf on 12 Oct 2005 - 17:45
It would be better to use a Notebook harddrive...
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #28 Posted by RiddickRom on 12 Oct 2005 - 18:01
It isn't fake, I just ordered two from newegg, they are offering it in the ipod nano SLI extreme GT super XL. You can link up two nano's and one nano plays half of the track then the other nano plays the second half.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #29 Posted by no-sweat on 12 Oct 2005 - 18:10
wow thumbs down for neowin for not realizing that this is fake. it was in the joke section a while back
Quote this comment #29.1 Posted by Cyranthus on 13 Oct 2005 - 00:51
not to mention how obvious this is...

1, chainsaw
2, brass monkey

6 seconds battery life...


come on neowin! ddduuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #30 Posted by - diego - on 12 Oct 2005 - 19:19
old news
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #31 Posted by williamhook on 13 Oct 2005 - 00:58
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #32 Posted by imtoomuch on 13 Oct 2005 - 01:45
Pretty stupid if you ask me. It may be a 200GB mp3 player, but it's not portable and it's pretty useless. I'd prefer a 200GB drive with Windows XP and Winamp.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #33 Posted by thailand on 13 Oct 2005 - 02:17
hahaha
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #34 Posted by duke149 on 13 Oct 2005 - 03:16
Why was this article not checked before it was posted

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Just look at the front page and its easy to see the site is used for posting humorous articles.

Or even http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Uncyclopedia:About

"Uncyclopedia is intended to be a Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/) parody. Although the main focus of this site is to provide humorous content, newcomers' chances of finding such material of any worth are unlikely."
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #35 Posted by mr_demilord on 13 Oct 2005 - 07:16
O.K.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #36 Posted by no-sweat on 13 Oct 2005 - 13:52
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/HTML
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #37 Posted by h0t1ce on 13 Oct 2005 - 14:57
They should have added a 15inch LCD monitor. it would be easier on the eyes and it would still be impossibly small.

I woud even go on as to add a recent motherboard with the latest graphic card... etc. Now that would be hot! Pop in a large capacity Lion battery and we are in business. Although the 6 minutes duration with the original battery is not too bad. I would presume it would go down to 2 seconds duration with all the extra added!

But still that would be a whole 2 seconds of extreme portable entertainment that I would fully enjoy!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #38 Posted by The Gauge on 14 Oct 2005 - 12:57
good god... i can't believe everyone is either taking this seriously or going nuts over the fact that this might be a fake.

as if walking around with a 3.5" harddrive in your pocket that plays for 6 seconds is something you'd seriously consider?

get a sense of humour guys.
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