Planet 9

will the hard drive of the ipod classic be damaged by driving vibration?

I know the general recommendation is to use the nano/flash drive models for sports, running, dropping it on the ground, etc but I wondered if anyone had experienced any problems with using the hard drive classic in the cayman, which isn't the smoothest ride on the planet

I've never had any issues, or ever notice anybody on here complain about that in the few years I've been closely monitoring the electronics forum.

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- Suneet

The vibration from the car shouldn't matter too much. I've had an iPod specifically for my car for over a year. It still works just fine. Remember that when you plan a continuous set of songs, the iPod will buffer the next 1, 2, or 3 in memory and let the hard drive spin down. It is vibration of the hard drive when spinning that causes damage.


The shock resistance on the latest ipod classic hard drives is:

Shock resistance:
Operating 4,900 m/s(2) (500G, 2ms)
Non-operating 14,700 m/s(2) (1,500G, 1ms)

I'd doubt that you would hit Gs like that from vibrations in the car.

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"The Cayman doesn't need any more toys." -- My wife

I ran a DE with my iPod attached to my Gateway 500 and didn't have any trouble. Of course I didn't play it while running n the track.

where did you get those force statistics!?! are those "newtons?"

I bought the classic (the one with the hard drive,) loaded some music, and went for a 120 mi. drive --it's ok so far

thanks for the info

I have an iPod on a ProClip/Ram combination mount and I have had no problem what so ever...I live in the Tri-State area of NY-NJ-Conn. and some of our roads are the worse...

mine's loose in the glove box--I was thinking about putting in a piece of foam, for it to sit on

Nah, works fine and you can have your whole cd library!