Iomega 33748 USB 2.0 1TB 2HD x 500GB Desktop Hard Drive by Iomega
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Digital camera reviews of Iomega 33748 USB 2.0 1TB 2HD x 500GB Desktop Hard Drive
Digital camera Review: Iomega 1 TB hard drive
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent product. Ended up buying a second one. Quick, and takes up very little space.Digital camera Review: Iomega review, Three months later
Summary: 1 Stars
After considering all the user pros and cons of this device, I went ahead and purchased this drive back on June 25th, and its main purpose was to be the main back up for my digital video and music collections. I copied over 100GB of data that weekend and it went smoothly, but towards the end I noticed that the power light went off mid file copying and the drive disappeared. I chalked it up to over working the drive, rebooted, and continued on with it only happening one more time. My eyebrow was raised, but no worries as of yet.
In July/August, turning on the drive would often lead to the drive starting to spin, but the power light going out. Turn it off and back on and it happens again instantly. Three or four times later, it stays on. This happens more than I could stand, but I already had over 200 GB of data on the drive, so it's something I can deal with as long as my data is safe once it gets there.
Fast forward to September. I finally digitize the rest of my music collection and start to copy files to the external drive, and it continues to shut off mid file copying. When I first got it, I could copy a few gigabytes at a time, but now it's struggling with folders under 90MB. Not once or a handful a times...EVERY SINGLE TIME. This is insane. I want to be rid of this device, but it is well out of the 30 day warranty. But wait, there is hope: I found out that the external drive just might have a grudge against windows XP, because when I hook it up to my Vista powered laptop, I doesn't shut off at all! Even though it should work with all operating systems that it's compatible with, I brushed that aside...I have a new glimmer of hope! But I still have a majority of my files on the XP powered PC. So I reconnect it to my PC, although I haven't decided on which method I was going to use to move files from my PC to the laptop to the external drive. Well yesterday, the drive made that decision for me.
I turned it on, and the main video folder is corrupted. Drive capacity shows that the bytes are still counted as being there, but the folder shows 0 bytes, 0 data. I Run scan disk, no errors. Defrag won't work. After trying a few more things for an hour, and after considering all the hoops I'd have to jump through to try and recover the data, I said screw it and reformatted.
So my thoughts on this drive are pretty clear; it was a waste of my $200. Of course I have DVD backups of everything I copied to the drive, so I'm not too upset about losing the data. But the fact remains that it failed at being a reliable device which I could use to quickly upload files back to my PCs. I got this to last for a few years, but it didn't even make it a full three months. Now I'm left with a $200 brick that I wouldn't trust to hold a collection of text files.
Digital camera Review: It works
Summary: 4 Stars
Iomega 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive Value Series External - Hi-Speed (33748)
It works, I guess that's what it's all about. The only complants are, it's a bit noisy, and there is no software for automatic back-ups. Otherwise it sure is nice to have gobs of storage space..
Digital camera Review: Never Again Will I Buy an Iomega Branded Product
Summary: 1 Stars
Purchased the product and firstly the PC only recognized/registered 500GB. Opened the case and reseated the drives. The PC then saw the 1TB. Performance was stable for about two weeks after which; now I am forced to reseat the drives or fiddle with the connectors in the case whenever I use the drive. If I do not do this, the PC does not recognize the drive and ask to reformat the disk first. I realize now also that the fan no longer works. This was purchased November 2007! Now totally frustrated I have decided to purchase two enclosures and dump the Iomega case as the HDDs seem to be working fine. Then again they should as they were not made by Iomega. The warranty process I have decided not to pursue given the lack of response received thus far from technical support. Iomega's support is extremely poor. Messages go unanswered and the website is a total waste of time. I was alarmed at the number of negative experiences being reported by other purchasers of this product on the Iomega website. Iomega needs to do better and I regret having purchased the product without reading the reviews. Unless you are being forced to by unearthly forces, give this a miss. I see Amazon does not allow negative ratings....so 1 star is the lowest I can go.Digital camera Review: No warrantee, loud, failed drive
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought two of these drives. They are both loud. Then the fans turn on and they get a lot louder. Intolerably loud. I would never buy them again for that reason alone. But it gets worse.
One of the drives started to fail after about 10 months. I managed to get my data off. Reformat. The drive failed again. The warrantee is one year. I contacted Iomega via their web site, typed in the drive serial number and it said my drive was not covered by a warrantee. What! I contacted Iomega and provided them with the emailed receipts from Amazon. Iomega wrote me back saying that was insufficient proof of purchase and they would not honor the warrantee.
Do not buy this drive.
Do not buy from Iomega.
If I could I would give them zero starts.
Beware of Iomega.