

A portion of the RAM is used to hold the iPod OS loaded from firmware, but the majority of it serves to cache songs from the storage medium. Each iPod also has 32 MB of RAM, although the 60 GB and 80 GB fifth generation, and the sixth-generation models have 64 MB. An additional NOR flash ROM chip (either 1 MB or 512 KB) contains a bootloader program that tells the device to load its OS from the storage medium. The iPod's operating system is stored on its dedicated storage medium.

On September 9, 2014, Apple discontinued the iPod Classic. It was available in silver or black from 2007 onwards, replacing the "signature iPod white".

Prior to this, all iPod Classic models were simply referred to as iPods the first iPod released in 2001 was part of this line that would be called "Classic". The "classic" suffix was formally introduced with the rollout of the sixth-generation iPod on September 5, 2007. All generations used a 1.8-inch (46 mm) hard drive for storage. There were six generations of the iPod Classic, as well as a spin-off (the iPod Photo) that was later re-integrated into the main iPod line.

The iPod Classic (stylized and marketed as iPod classic and formerly iPod Video or just iPod) is a discontinued portable media player created and formerly marketed by Apple Inc.
