Fun!Ī friend mentioned off hand that he had a bunch of iPods. Along with drive capacity, the amount of RAM onboard also varied, so a 30GB and 60GB iPod would have different total track and metadata capacities. 160GB seemed like a lot, and it is, but hard drives have many deficiencies to flash storage in 2019. Larger iPods sometimes had deeper cases to acommodate the thicker hard drives. Most iPods that weren’t flash based had actual hard drives, 1.8″ units from many manufacturers. Other sites have ranked the best iPods for sound, but all of them are before the 6th Generation iPod, which seemed to be a turn in form from Cupertino towards profit over quality. We didn’t realize it at the time, but those who were fascinated with the iPod and audio quality became fans of the device because it used various versions of the Wolfson DAC. iPod Touch was next on the list, and I never really looked back when touch screens, wireless, and an App Store were available.
I sold it later to get another one, an 80GB I think, then eventually got the mother of all iPods, the 160GB, in 2007. I used it on planes, for a radio show, and in cars. Open box from Best Buy, it was probably still over $450 way back then, but man was it nice. The battery wasn’t very good, and those models had a bad habit of breaking the Firewire plug, so it’s good that Apple figured things out with the later versions.
My first was a 5GB, Macintosh-formatted, first-generation iPod with a Firewire interface.
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