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the largest storage capacity of any ipod using flash memory 3 years ago was 8GB. you could have had twice that with a sansa e280 and an 8GB microsd card.
unless of course you're one of the hard drive models...
iPods have been criticized for their short life-span and fragile hard drives... In particular, failure rates for iPods employing hard drives was usually above 20% while those with flash memory had a failure rate below 10%, indicating poor hard drive durability.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipod#Reliability_and_durability