iFlash Quad MicroSD Adapter iPod 5G 6G 7G Video Classic Upto 4x Micro SD Cards

Worked great in my iPod 6th gen. You can trick the firmware of the 6th gen into thinking it's a 7th gen and be able to use the Quad to its full extent (removing128GB storage limit). I used one card at 512GB as the stock firmware goes kaput at around ~50,000 songs anyway. With Rockbox you probably avoid this.

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.

If you have the right iPod, this can be a G*dsend! (This review assumes you’re using iTunes on MacOS) Firstly, why spend money updating yesterday’s tech? Well, the 4th generation iPod has great D/A chips—at least as good as Tidal’s highest-end stream or AIFs on modern hardware + an outboard D/A & headphone amp. Yes, Steve insisted the device be ‘insanely great’ and it was/ is! So, if you have golden ears, some really good cans and can deal with a couple limitations, read on... A couple things of note: iPod OS limits the number of tracks (regardless of file size, format or bit rate) to around 40,000. That’s the number of tracks, mind you, not the amount of storage. Dust off your pencil and an old calculator and get figurin’. Since my library is ~ 100,000 entries, I had some editing to do. Suggest your first stop be iTunes’ “Compilations” folder. I believe this version of the card (NOT mSATA, SATA or Compact Flash) is easiest on iPod battery life. While on battery life, suggest you refresh your iPod battery while you’ve got the device cracked open... These babies aren’t meant to be opened and closed many times. BTW: you could opt for a ‘ZIF SSD,’ but I’m not sure you can get one bigger than 128gb. If you’re just gonna fill it up with low-bitrate-MP3 files, stop reading and spend your cash on something else. This solution is for lossless or near-lossless content. Back to the card: because of the four slots, you can use up your old 32 and 64-gig cards first, then put a 128 or 256-gig card in the last slot. Once iTunes formats & blesses your set of cards they act like JBOD. As others have observed, the write process is very s-l-o-w. If you are in a rush, stop reading and spend your cash on something else. That being said, you shouldn’t cheap-out when it comes to the speed of your TF card(s). A U3 card is probably the sweet spot in the performance/ price equation. At $17 for a 128gb card you can now price everything you need for the project. In the end, you’ll get a very light (feels like an empty box), very snappy, insanely-great-sounding, portable music player...albeit sans-bluetooth. Well, you can’t have everything. Thanks for reading!

The hard drive finally died for good in one of my Ipods, and this adaptor brought it back to life! It's way lighter than before, and battery life has been increased by at least two to three times, not to mention it's faster too. Easy install if you've ever played around with the insides of 'em, but there's a good video if you need it. I just put two 64G Samsung Evo Micro SDs in it to see how it was going to do at first, and it's been perfect so far! I've been so happy with it that I got another adaptor and four 256G SDs for another dead Ipod, just to see that TB at the top!

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 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!!!