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I still have my first MP3 player a 64mb Diamond Rio in a draw at home, I wonder if it still works.
by C1sc0cat 7y ago
I still have my first MP3 player a 64mb Diamond Rio in a draw at home, I wonder if it still works.
- tyingq 7y agoI remember when the hard drive mp3 players came out, like the first iPod. As a sysadmin at the time, I found it amusing that people were wearing these while running, etc. Worked out better than I had imagined. Did they use "special" hard drives with some sort of unique head crash protection?
- jzwinck 7y agoThey did not use special drives, usually 1.8" drives identical to what was in the smallest portable hard drives. I remember because I fixed a friend's dropped iPod by buying one of those enclosed hard drives and transplanting it.
- eigenvalue 7y agoI think they did use some kind of inertia sensor that would detect when the device was falling and spin down the drive to reduce the chance of it breaking.
- lonelappde 7y agoThe used a SSD buffer of 16-64MB so that the hard drive spun up only once every few minutes of playback. But navigation during movement would still be risky.
- jacobush 7y agoThat doesn't sound right - that would have been a significant extra cost.
- tyingq 7y agoI don't see any notion of an SSD in the old iPods, but they did seem to have 32MB of RAM. I assume some was left for use as a buffer.
- serf 7y agoEach iPod also has 32 MB of RAM, although the 60GB and 80GB fifth generation, and the sixth-generation models have 64 MB. A portion of the RAM is used to hold the iPod OS loaded from firmware, but the majority of it serves to cache songs from the storage medium. For example, an iPod could spin its hard disk up once and copy approximately 30 MB of upcoming songs into RAM, thus saving power by not requiring the drive to spin up for each song. wiki entry on iPod Classic. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Classic
- fzzzy 7y agoThat's exactly how it worked.
- lonelappde 7y agoAs others said, I misremembered RAM as SSD. Mandela effect!
- hazeii 7y agoI have a bunch of them, and they do still work (if you're using them under linux, you're running our code [0]). [0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacked-rio-to-pose-legal-problems-5000101466/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacked-rio-to-pose-legal-probl...