These either hold on tenaciously or break with a momentum-inducing SPANG, ripping out the delicate headphone-jack ribbon cables and flinging them to the far corner of your workroom. There are tack-welded springs down the inner sides of the back cover. Getting inside one of these things requires some unusual tools.

Opening these devices is not for the faint of heart. The other is that the generations of iPod Classics capable of such upgrades are made from lumps of the cast, stamped metal. One issue is that the batteries of a nine-year-old iPod are likely to be somewhat below their optimum capacity. Storage isn’t the only hurdle, of course. That’s enough storage to house more than 3,000 hours of uncompressed 16-bit, 44.1kHz CD-quality audio Enterprising souls have created third-party add-in boards which make it possible to replace the spinning disks of yore with various types of flash storage, and that means one thing: you can now upgrade that fusty old iPod with anything up to a 1TB mSATA SSD. Sadly, the demand for 1.8in drives was short-lived, and so 160GB became the hard limit for an iPod Classic. “You can now upgrade that old iPod with anything up to a 1TB mSATA SSD.”

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