Using your ipod as a hard drive

Hi there! I am hoping that someone out there who has an ipod can answer a question for me. I am a PC user. I'm looking into buying an IPOD, but I want to use it for more than just music. Essentially I want to use it as an external hard drive. Can you save any type of file on the ipod? can you use it for music at the same time? (so part of it holds and plays music and the other part stores data) if anyone has any information on this I'd appreciate it! thank you!

Yes, you can put any type of file which you can use on your computer onto your iPod, as long as the file is smaller than 4GB. It is possible to use an iPod for data and music at the same time as long as the iPod is in either FAT32 or HFS+ format; all iPods ship in one of those two. More information is available in this article.
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