p2pnet.net News:- Jonathan Hudson thought he’d found a way around Apple’s pricey iPod mini, in stores near you for a trifling $249.

“The $249 iPod mini contains a $479.95 Hitachi MicroDrive,” he said here on February 25. “So the best deal on buying a MicroDrive for my D100 is to buy a iPod mini and take it apart. You get the MicroDrive for almost 50% off and you get a free pair of headphones. Slap an old compact flash card into the mini and keep on rocking.”

But, said Boing Boing reader Sean Bonner here, “This guy took apart the mini iPod and found that it is NOT useable outside of the iPod, so buying one for the drive will prove useless.”

Then another A Boing Boinger – Mark Frauenfelder – said: “The iPod/microdrive hack does work. Where the other poster is confused is that you can’t format the microdrive in the camera. You need to mount drive on you system with a CF reader. Then format it FAT and it works fine. The drive out of the mini has a partition on it that their camera can’t deal with. A full wipe on your machine solves the problem and gets you a cheap mammoth camera card.”

At 2:26 Hudson added an update to her post, to wit: ”Try at your own risk. Of course you’re going to void your warrantee and you’ll most likely end up with an anodized aluminum paper weight.”

For more on the saga, go here.

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