Sunday, November 23, 2008

Does my iPod get heavier if i put more songs on it?

Hi
We got out first Hardware question:) Does my iPod got heavier if you put more songs on it?

I am 99% sure that iPods use solid state drives(they are really really small and have no moving parts). An example of a basic solid state drive is your basic SD card. A normal hard drive has a few spinning metal disks and some magnets so the magnets record data on to the spinning metal disks.

Now i am not 100% sure how solid state drives work. I know they use either DRAM volatile memory or NAND flash non-volatile memory(these are the block rectangles you see on sticks of RAM) which contain semiconductors instead of a metal disk. So basically No. In computers, storage is just a connection of electrical impulses so they weigh nothing:)

Thanks for the question

AndrewCow

P.S. If you have any questions post them on the comment of this post

P.P.S Thanks Jackson for your response:)

3 Comments:

skenvoye said...

^^

Unknown said...

I think it may have been a joke question!

andrewcow said...

Yes i did aswell but oh well i still wanted to answer it:)