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Frankenpod:
You aren't wrong that iFlash adaptors can be troublesome.  I get the impression that RB devs have learned more about that than they would have liked to.  And I've heard, but not from personal experience, that SSDs with a native ZIF interferface work more reliably.  SSDs do seem to have a surprisingly high power draw, compared to the original 1.4" hard drives, though.

If you only need 256GB there's also the 240GB Toshiba 1.4" double-platter hard drive, but that now seems to be vanishingly-rare (have a couple and I'm hanging on to them!).

Main thing with the iFlash seems to be that the work to get round their limitations (failure to properly implement the cache flushing commands?) has the knock-on effect of increasing their power consumption, so I'm not sure the data  in that linked 2016 article would still apply.

graemehh:
Thanks rockbox_dev123, Frankenpod and also a post by cereal_killer.

I found this ZIF SSD on Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CGF77YVK/?coliid=IFPSWMJVHNTF4&colid=LW308H51O0EB&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it

It looks like it might work and is cheaper than the equivalent CF card but still a bit pricey.

On balance (and budget), I'm going for an iFlash adapter and single 256G SD card.

graemehh:
In the end, I used the imCort dual micro SD card adapter sold by moonlit.market (https://moonlit.market/products/imcort-sd-card-adapter-for-the-ipod-classic-classic-connect) along with two 128GB Kingston Canvas Go! Plus micro SD cards and a slim 3000mA/h battery (yes, I know that it will not really be 3000mA/H but it fits). All in a 30Gb (slim) 5th generation iPod classic.

I only have a MAC and at the moment I can not load RockBox. The ipodcatcher script does not run on my MAC so I can not go down the manual conversion to FAT32 route! Instead I'm canvasing friends to see if anyone has a windows machine with iTunes.

As there are so many MAC users now, is it not possible to write a RockBox version that will load onto a MAC formatted iPod with ease?

At the moment, the iPod conversion is working fine with very good battery life, however I will get RockBox loaded so that I can play FLAC files.

speachy:
> As there are so many MAC users now, is it not possible to write a RockBox version that will load onto a MAC formatted iPod with ease?

Ah yes, the "why don't you nerd harder" appeal.

"load onto Mac formatted iPods" means implementing native read/write support for the Mac-only HFS+ filesystem.  This represents a _major_ undertaking even before the completely not-fully-undestood proprietary (and dead-end) nature of HFS+ is considered -- Last I checked, even Linux cannot reliably write to HFS+ filesystems.

Then consider that Macs can read FAT32 (ie "windows formatted") iPods, but not the other way around....

Personally, I have zero interest in investing time and effort into a completely proprietary, deliberately-hostile-to-free-software platform.

EDIT:  Grammar

graemehh:
It was not intended as criticism of everyone who works hard on RockBox, but as a newbie to the platform, it was a failure to understand the complexities and sublties of the problems involved.
 

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