CornToeGoblin

do you think it would be possible to use an iPod nano as a hard drive solely for use with the OS plus your music? like the question form would probably be "does the OS hard drive have to be IDE? or USB mass storage device?

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Rob Withey

Flash memory has a limited number of write cycles. I would be worried about putting a swap file on one.

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RoyN

What would the advantage of that vs some other flash/solid state memory be?

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Sham-Mobile

pics of the internals of an ipod nano:

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/4

CornToeGoblin

oh lol i thought the nano was hard drive based. i was amazed at the size of the HD . well i guess i have to shift the shape of my question. can you run an OS off of a usb mass storage device that is hard drive based like the 4G ipods.

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http://www.kernelthread.com/blog/archives/000023.html

CornToeGoblin

thanks man, thats very useful since i'm planning on going linux. i might get that wine program so i can use the software that makes winblows so freakin notorious. i really hope that program comes out soon, feels like it has alot of potential.

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