IPods used as Hard Drive Storage Devices

IPods Serve as Hidden Hard Drives.  "Few electronic gadgets have been marketed as successfully as have the Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)  iPod and its close relatives. As of the end of 2004, Apple had sold over 10 million iPods, and Apple's competitors are not doing badly with their own music players that store their tunes on tiny hard drives or solid state memory chips. . . . IPods contain a tiny (matchbox size) hard drive, very much like the one in your PC or laptop. The basic models have a 20 GB capacity, while the more expensive Photo iPod has a 60 GB drive (most laptop computers have hard drive capacities of around 40 GB). Mini iPods have 5 GB drives. . . . Plugged into a conventional computer, the devices are recognized as external hard drives, onto which can be written any information that will fit on a computer.