Re: Jostling? Jostle this!

[AngryJ5 <AngryJohnny@fuse.net>]

At 08:58 AM 2003-12-18, r. gockley wrote:
> Exerpt from this article:
> http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6450_7-5102324-1.html?tag=fs
>
> "The iPod and other high-capacity MP3 players use hard drives to
> store
> music. In order to extend battery life and avoid skipping, the hard
> drives
> turn on only every once in a while to fill up a flash-memory buffer,
> which
> itself has no potentially skipping, moving parts. The flash buffer,
> in
> turn, plays the music. If something jars a hard drive-based player at
> the
> precise moment when the hard drive is spinning to load the flash
> buffer,
> the player could skip. Some experts say that it's impossible to damage
> the
> drive in this way, but I'm not buying that--hard drives spin thousands
> of
> times per minute, and they have tiny, fragile parts. Instead, use a
> small
> flash player, such as something from the iRiver iFP-3xx line. They
> won't
> skip, the batteries last longer, and they're much lighter than the
> iPod."
>
> HTH, HAND,
>
> Rachel

true, i wouldnt be worried so much about skipping as damaging the harddrive, putting a scratch on a harddrive is much worse than on a cd

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