Sam
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Where is the best place to source one for a 20Gb 4th Gen iPod? I've seen a couple of sites that offer a replacement and fitting service for £90 all inclusive, but I'm just thinking that it would be cheaper to buy the HDD and fit it myself?
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Dom
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ebay would be the best i would have thought - though they are just 2.5" laptop hard drives in them, so maybe get a cheap one and try it? 
Though this how to replace the drive -
> HERE <
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Sam
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Cheers Dom, it says on that site that the drive is 1.8" (as opposed to 2.5") - I didn't know such drives existed?
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Dom
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ok that's news to me, always thought that they were 2.5" drives 
The model number is MK2006GAL though if that helps and you can buy them from > HERE < (cheapest place i've seen them)
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Dom
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also, it might be worth getting a toshiba MK3006GAL (30GB) or a toshiba MK4006GAH (40GB) or MK6006GAH (60GB)
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Sam
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The iPod won't throw a wobbly if you put a larger capacity drive in it I take it?
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Ian
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There are a few people using the 60Gb drive on that link. I would imagine that when the software does the factory reset it is just partitioned and formatted to whatever is available, up to the hardware limit.
There is a comment about the 80Gb being physically thicker so I would probably think 60Gb is the largest you can go in that case.
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Sam
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Thanks for your help everyone. 
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