My new iPod is here. Now, four hours to charge it, and around about five to download all my music to it.
Sigh. No music 'till tomorrow. :-(
Posted to iPod by Simon Brunning at December 09, 2004 01:23 PMFive hours? Christ.
USB I take it?
I think my 10gb collection took about fifteen minutes.
USB 1.1, at that. 12 Mbps, or roughly 5.4 Gigabytes per hour, theoretical top whack. So the while 18.5 Gig of data *should* take just shy of three and a half hours. I'm sure that in the real world, it'll be longer than that, but maybe five hours was pessimistic. We'll see...
USB 2.0 runs at 480 Mbps - 40 times as fast. The full download would theoretically take five and a bit minutes at that speed - but I'm *sure* that it would take longer than that really. I wonder what speed the iPod HD writes at?
Posted by: Simon Brunning on December 9, 2004 02:04 PMWell, I get around 30-40Mb/s across USB 2 with my Creative Zen (60Gb and full to bursting), so the hard drive is definitely a bottle neck there!
Of course, the iPod may use faster (as well as smaller) components, or may have to do less when uploading tracks (I think the Zens got an internal caatalogue of tags to maintain).
Posted by: Stuart Dootson on December 9, 2004 03:30 PMOh, I'm so glad you've got it. I was sad that your new toy, which was half for this Christmas, was broken before Christmas even arrived. Kids, eh? Sigh.
Posted by: Sujatin on December 13, 2004 09:56 AMThe last time I loaded up my iPod it took less than a minute. But then I have ripped as much music as you (my collection is running at a mere ten and a bit gigabytes) and I was using firewire;
http://developer.apple.com/firewire/
I love my iBook ;-)
Posted by: Andy Todd on December 13, 2004 10:16 PMHi simon -
Sorry, don't mean to spam, but came across your blog on an iPod search. I saw that you had the Delayed Write Failure error. I have the same deal and have been unable to find a solution.
I can't find your blog entry where you figured out you had to send it away...would you be kind enough to give me the sound byte on what happened? My 40gb 4g is now a paperweight; if i need to pull the trigger on getting it to apple support, I'd rather hear from the voice of experience.
thanks much,
matt i.
Basically, very good. Give Apple a call, and it'll get fixed.
Firstly, they'll talk you through a few things that might fix it at your end - formatting the disk, re-installing the software, that kind of thing. Assuming that that doesn't work, they'll send round a courier, and you'll get it back in a week or so. Sorted.
Posted by: Simon Brunning on February 1, 2005 10:49 AM