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Nano freespace minus application?
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Thinking about getting a Nano, I decided to see just how much 4GB would hold by deleting all but 4GB of my iTunes Library from my 15GB iPod.
Strangely, 4GB of music showed up as about 10GB of "Used" space on iPod. So I deleted everything and sure enough the iPod used 6GB of space all on its own.
I know that the application or whatever must use up some space, but 6GB? This seems crazy.
And, before I trade storage space for design, just how much space does the iPod Nano application use up before music is added (i.e. what does 4GB mean in terms of free diskspace for your music)?
Thanx.
(Last edited by Tiresias; Sep 15, 2005 at 10:22 AM.
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You probably have other programs on your iPod. Have you ever used it as an external hard drive? You should be getting closer to 13.5 gb on a 15gb iPod, I would say.
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If you don't have any computer data on the iPod, just use the iPod updater program to restore it to the factory state. That should get you back to full capacity.
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I guess I'd like to know what the formatted capacity of the iPod nano is. It's usually about 92% of the iPod's stated size when empty.
The iPod has to reserve some space to keep the operating system, applicatins, and playlists.
I checked my iPod 5GB is at 4.65 (93%) while my iPod photo 20GB is at 18.5 (92%).
So I guess the iPod 15GB is about 90% (13.5GBs).
So would it be safe to assume that a 4GB iPod nano would be approximately 3.68GBs?
Mine is on the way so I can't check. Anybody that has a nano would surely help us here. Anybody?
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The 4gb nano is apparently 3.7gb.
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Memory sizes are not like hard drive sizes. Since memory chips operate in powers of 2, 4GB of flash memory should actually be 4GB. Apparently, the iPod OS takes about 300MB.
Chris
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Can the nano's flash memory still double as an external "harddrive" ?
[By the way, thank you poster. I reset my iPod to the factory settings. Voila! Back to over 13GB capacity when empty.]
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Yes you can use the nano to store files. Since it can't use firewire (except to charge the battery) I don't think a Mac could boot from it, but I'm not sure.
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