OK, so I have an ipod question. It's time for me to format my ipod and reinstall all my music and podcasts and all the rest, cause my ipod is a mess. I'll probably also set it to automatically sync...

it depends on how much music you're talking about. let's say you have 20 GB of music. to sync your ipod with USB 1.1, it will take almost 4 hours at that speed (12 Mb/s) USB 2.0 can effect...

theoretically, it SHOULD take 4 hours, but realistically, it doesn't work like that in my experience. it seems to take its sweet time doing things like "analyzing song volume" and "checking for gap...

oh, right. i was really describing how it would work if you were to just attach the hard drive to her computer and use that to sync. syncing itunes with a removable hard drive isn't really the b...