IPod Touch 4g CONSTANTLY needs to be restored.

Here's my problem in a nutshell -- about every second or third time I try to sync my iPod, iTunes tells me it "cannot read the contents" of it and that I need to restore it. After I restore, I can sync successfully one or two times before it says the same thing again. Every time (until now) I've been restoring to backup, but even a factory restore had the same results. I did a factory restore two days ago, and today I'm already having to restore it again. The longest it's gone without iTunes calling for a restore was about ten days.
I bought my Touch about two months ago, and it's been giving me this problem pretty much from the start. Other than this syncing issue, it works perfectly. If it weren't for the time-consuming inconvenience of having to reload 50gb of music and videos every time this happens, it might not even bother me so much.
I've tried every suggestion I can find -- resetting, restarting (the computer and the iPod), changing cables. I always wait for sync processes to finish before touching it, and I always eject it in iTunes before unplugging it. The iPod works fine in the meantime and never gives any warning (like glitches or crashing) before a restore is needed. But it's such a consistent problem that I'm worried now that this might be hardware-related. This is my first Touch, but not my first iPod, and I'm no newbie when it comes to dealing with iTunes' bizarre and frustrating behavior, but I have completely run out of ideas at this point. Advice?

Mine does the same thing. Bought it April 2010. For the first month or so it sync'ed fine. Then it just stopped. Have done about a dozen restores. Will sync 2 or three time then has problems reading the device. Am running latest iTunes and iPOD software. The Apple store says the device is OK, so it not there problem and they have no solution or suggestion.
I am so fed up with this POS and it kludgy software. Seeing as this is 2011, home computers have been around for over 25 years, the iTunes software is version 10, I don't think it is too much to ask for a device to just plug in and work.
I have looked at and considered iPhones and iPads. But there is no way I would take one for free, forget about paying for it. If this thing wasn't so expensive it would have been smashed months ago.

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And welcome to Apple Discussions!
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