Never had so much fun with one small gadget. Everything I need fits on this hard disk. It's easy to operate and easy to carry. I just continue to have fun

I was very angry to see that after a week I purchased this, the price dropped like $60, well, it happens, on the other hand I'm happy that I bought it before they stopped making them in apple, and make the 120gb instead(what the hell?, I hate these guys, don't understand why they do that, 160 was fine).

I tried transferring my music with itunes, but it was a mess, no cover art, it doesn't recognize folder.jpg as the cover, so in my opinion, it's a crappy program, it takes soooo much ram and for nothing, crashes all the time, well, I could go on forever telling you how much I hate this software.

Instead I used Winamp, and it worked perfectly, now I've got 130 gb of completely organized music, all with cover art, it took a bit longer than itunes, but it's definitely worth it

Long live winamp, f**k itunes and mac.

Since this is a self powered USB drive, it is a superb but expensive choice to store important data if it becomes abruptly disconnected from a MAC or PC while reading, writing or transferring data the chances of mechanical failure are significantly less than if you were performing the same operation with an IDE disk in an unpowered USB adapter. Of course the abrupt disconnection doesn't eliminate the possible logical corruption or data loss.

The FAT32 file system is a drawback since it chokes on 4GB+ file sizes and larger files are more common since the FAT32 file system was invented by the "geniuses" at Microsoft (1996) when large media files and the applications capable of creating them were rare.

Repartioning the FAT32 file system into a smaller section and trying to create an extended or new NTFS partition is a great way to waste a weekend and should only be attempted after you've backed up or verified a replica of your song files since they'll be lost.

We wasted a weekend trying Partition Magic, GPart'd, Ghost disk utility trying to resize, or recreate the file system to accomodate an extra NTFS partition on this thing and we became highly skilled in restoring the OS repeatedly.

There is an older posting from a MAC guru on how to accomplish this using pdisk and MAC OS version of dd but this process seemed to require a MAC since pdisk isn't easily obtainable from the web.

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There are 800+ reviews at the time of this writing and my two cents are this is an annoying MP3 / M4P music player because the iTunes software rewrites the titles to your MP3 and even the native iTunes MP4 files to a random four letter .mp3 or .mp4 filename buried inside a \iPod_Control\Music\F?? directory name.

This is annoying if you want to transfer your authorized or non-commercial MP3 files to another system from your iPod using traditional file explorer methods.

iTunes itself has an "export" feature that is unreliable and will sporadically error and do so inconsistently to make it difficult to troubleshoot.

OR, you can just waste 50% of your iPod disk space by using the normal iTunes song import method to load the iPod, then copy the files directly to the removable USB mounted file system in their native file name format.

Since song data is really stored in ID3 tags, you'll keep your song data whether or not you just bite the bullet and copy over all those nasty renamed four letter mp3 files.

GREAT TIP:: Copy the F?? directories to your Windows Media Player 10 or later version equipped PC, and use wmplayer.exe library rename features to rename the actual file names based on the ID3 tags and the RIP music settings and you can transfer / import your song files from your iPod w/o having to jack with iTunes.

DISCLAIMER: I dislike Microsoft even more than Apple and for different reasons, just because Microsoft is junk doesn't make Apple quality. I don't advocate or discourage Zunes since I don't own one or have used one. If given a chance to do either with a Zune, I'm sure I can find plenty of reasons to dislike it.

Finally, an ipod of my own. And who should I buy from, if not amazon. It came earlier than expected, in addition to the cheap price of 235, at least 15 bucks less than anywhere else. I am a devoted customer of amazon, especially when it comes to electronics.

I purchased the 160GB iPod Classic to replace a 5th generation 60GB iPod with Video.

I wanted the large capacity.

It works as described; however, the 160GB drive used is very, very slow. If all you're doing is listening to music or watching videos, it's OK. However, playing games, like Mini-Golf, is painful. I owned Mini-Golf on my previous iPod and really liked it. On this iPod, the game is constantly pausing, waiting for information from the hard drive.

I also can't help but wonder if Apple reduced whatever RAM is inside the 160GB iPod. That would explain the constant pausing while info from the hard drive is downloaded.

Summary: Music & video are fine...everything else is slow and slower.

By the way, I knew about Coverflow before purchasing this iPod. I hate it. I wish there were a way to disable it while the iPod is using the main menu. I've disabled it in every place I can.