Digital Technology for Digital Living.
August 18, 2004
Booting From an iPod
Engadget‘s feature article this week is using your iPod as a bootable device. Whilst they don’t advise using your iPod for this all the time, as the hard drive in it isn’t designed for lots and lots of use, like a regular desktop drive, it might be handy for a few of you to carry around an OS in your pocket.
We’re a fan of the bootable live Linux CD’s, which work really well, and they have a link to booting Linux from an external Firewire/USB drive, which may also come in handy.
As if carrying around your Windows cracking tools wasn’t easy enough already.
Ben | Comments (2) | Portablegadgets,gadget,gadgets shop, latest gadgets, new gadgets
as the hard drive in it isn’t designed for lots and lots of use
WTF!?
It’s a small 1.8″ HDD, and the MTBF is much lower on these devices than it is on 2.5″ and 3.5″ HDDs. Whilst I can’t find anything from Toshiba directly, there’s a few references that state the 1.8″ HDDs used in the iPod have an MTBF of 20,000 hours, as opposed to the hundreds of thousand hour MTBFs for desktop drives. 20,000 hours is still quite a while however!