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Cooling an overheating iPod
Hard drived based iPods can indeed get very hot when syncing, or even just in 'disk mode'. Because of that, I always make it a point to unmount my iPod when I'm charging it on my work Mac. If I'm not syncing, there's no point in having the HD spinning away, so I dismount it, which spins the disk down. I wouldn't doubt if it helps prolong the life of the iPod.
Cooling an overheating iPod
Unless you've got some overly-active task going on, when the iPod is in disc mode it will spin down when not in use (being read or written to).
Cooling an overheating iPod
Yes, that's true, but chances are it will only stay spinned down if you're not doing a whole lot with your Mac. Try letting the disk spin down and then do an "Open…" command in any app, and watch it spin up. The Finder will queue any attached disks to spin up, including iPods in disk mode, when it thinks you may need to access them. |
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