I purchased this and a battery and they both worked great. Installation was easy and fast. Only issue is that the iPod won't connect with some of the cars that it used to work with before the upgrade

This is a significant upgrade for iPods - new flash drives are added seamlessly. To the iPod, this simply looks like a spinning HDD except it may have strange capacities (depends on your combo of flash cards).

Compared to the mSATA version of this adapter, this incarnation has two advantages - flash cards can tolerate a drained battery (some mSATA drives have to be re-initialized when that happens) and you can mix and match whatever SDXC cards you have to start and then build up over time. The iFlash mSATA adapter only has one slot.

Do note 2 limitations up front (and the iFlash website goes into much greater detail) - Depending on the iPod you're upgrading, you may have a 16-32,000 song limit. That's driven by the RAM your iPod shipped with. The USB interface on these iPods is also slow as molasses - the first transfer will take forever. So avoid too many books on tape with 99 chapters per CD and you can literally store days / weeks of music.

The board ships with four foam spacers which kinda hold it OK in the case as long as you spread them out. I added some more to prevent any and all jiggling inside the case as kapton cable joining the iFlash drive to the motherboard is fragile.

Choose the iPod carefully, I find the 5th generation is easiest to split open. The 7th generation stumped me. Buy the right tools if you don't have them already - spudgers to split the case and small screw drivers and the like to undo connectors on the inside.

Lastly, be sure to format the iPod with disk utilities on a Mac, having first changed the view to allow you to see the device, not just the partitions. Then select the device and select "Apple partition map" as well as the extended journaled setting. New partitions will be created and once disk utility is done, iTunes will take over.

this brought a new love to an old product! absolutely love my ipod classic. The original hard drive died and I was beyond sad that I couldn't use it. After a little research and YouTube videos found this beautiful product to replace the factory hard drive. THIS THING WORKS LIKE A CHAMP! After replacing the broken hard drive, its alot lighter in weight, runs faster, longer battery life, and syncs music faster! I put 4-256GB micro SD cards in mine to push my classic to be a 1TB of and works great. All functions work! 2sd cards were Samsung 2 were San disk. My ipod will now last me forever, i never worry about space anymore or this hard drive crashing. It's a better functioning, better quality hard drive compared to the factory one. IF YOU'RE AN IPOD CLASSIC LOVER, THIS IS A MUST HAVE!!!

My hardrive crashed on my classic IPod. After reading many tutorials, I landed on this. I had to buy a specific flash drive and format it but other than that it was plug and play. The hardest part was getting my IPod apart without scratching the crap out of it.

Great instructions, and easy to install. Brought life back to old technology with a wonderful upgrade. Added cheap 512GB and 1024GB to have over 2TB of memory for a lot of my music files! Don't hesitate to upgrade if your thinking about it. Would do business again.