Quote Originally Posted by transio
Ty, yipes I have much of my work backed up on my ipod with no other backups!!!

I better work on getting another backup!
Yeah, I then got a couple 1GB SD cards. One o fmy crucial files...stored on a bad bit. Gotta love it. All I can say is I learned my lesson and that is why I keep things in triplicate.

Quote Originally Posted by Tone
2. There is NO problem with using the iPod as storage for music AND data and has NOTHING to do with your failure. More likely you didn't unmount the iPod drive before you disconnected it from your Windoze box.
Actually...it is nothing I did. I work in IT and have for nearly 4 years now and do not EVER unproperly unplug any device. In fact, I am the guy that has to remind others of that at work. (PS - steve, they moved me back into IT/WD, WOOT, no more sales!) Every unplug was preceeded by a click of the eject button.

According to the tech I talked to my problem is usually caused by vibration (in car) while playing. The shielding and shock proofing is *** on those things and considering you are basically spinning a hard drive up while it sits in your cupholder going down the highway at 75 mph...well, yeah, you could see the problem. Why they didnt rugadize the things a bit more I'll never know.

The other thing that could have happened, according to the tech, is I simply got a bad one. It is a piece of hardware, it happens. Loose connection, piece of dust on the harddrive, bad soldering, any number of things coulda caused it.

Quote Originally Posted by nfpgasmask
I don't understand why everyone just automatically buys an iPod, there are several other brands that imho are way better....

...I just bought my first portable MP3 player myself, an 8 GIG Creative Zen Micro Photo.
Prolly because IPods are up to...what, 60gig (is that still the top?) now. And honestly, they have a few problems...but you are getting a 60 gig MP3/mobile HD. While you can put data on other MP3 players, few reach the level of storage of an Ipod and if they do, their price is far greater and the size is going to be larger. Your 8 gig, what did it run you, half the price of a 40 gig ipod?

I looked at most other major players in the MP3 scene but found that most capped out at 8-16 gig and were only $100 less than the iPod. So why not! It is well worth it.

I looked at it like anything else that is tech related. You can buy a 128 meg sd card for nothing, but a gig is just double anymore...and 8 times the capacity, so why stop there with just 128?

my $0.02 x 3