Iomega 33983 USB 2.0 160GB eGo Rugged Portable Hard Drive (Jet Black) by Iomega
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Digital camera reviews of Iomega 33983 USB 2.0 160GB eGo Rugged Portable Hard Drive (Jet Black)
Digital camera Review: Excellent Value
Summary: 4 Stars
Great value for the price. Works fine, looks nice, and didn't cost a lot. Use it to back up my photos and music, works perfectly and have not run into any problems yet. Very pleased.Digital camera Review: Great, compact!
Summary: 5 Stars
Works fine for me and is small and good looking, has just as much space as one of my laptops all in this small package.Digital camera Review: I suggest getting an external power supply
Summary: 4 Stars
This product is somewhat dated, now that Iomega has developed much larger capacity USB and Firewire portable drives. However, I own this 160GB, so I shall address this specific drive. I own two, used solely for backing up two desktop PCs using Storagecraft's ShadowProtect Desktop Edition software. I don't like the backup software the eGo drives came with so I ditched it pronto.
The eGo drives had been working well, albeit with the occasional hiccup in the backups where the backup might fail, randomly, due to a write error to the USB drive. (Note, the USB drive comes with two USB connectors, one for communication to the PC and the other for power.) I chalked the occasional backup glitches to, well, I guess just bad luck, one of those Windoze things that are inscrutable. Recently, the backups started failing every day on my large desktop PC -- I'm talking a server class PC, a Dell Precision 670, very expensive, my life's blood. I did every imaginable diagnostic on the PC and everything came up clean as a whistle. I then proceeded to contact Storagecraft's tech support, because it was their software that was failing. However, upon further reflection and perusing the Windows XP system event log, it was always a "failure to write" to the backup device. I decided to order an external power supply for the one Iomega while I was going back and forth with the software tech support guy. After installing the power supply, lo and behold, my backup problems disappeared, not to be seen in the several weeks since I installed it. I have no idea why, after using the device for about a year, it decided to flake out and needed more power. Oh well, the power supply, ordered from Iomega, was only $20. Small price to pay for backing up my beloved Dell. As a side note, the 2nd Iomega drive and backups are running fine on a Dell E521.
Let this be a lesson -- even though manufacturers claim you don't need external power, I strongly suggest learning from this and springing for the AC power supply. It doesn't cost much and it will save you a lot of grief. Just do it!
Other than that, the Iomega eGo (actually, both of them) hum along well and do their thing. Yes, I have had occasion to do an emergency "bare metal" restore from my Iomega eGo drive and everything restored fine and dandy. In case you don't know what "bare metal" means, consider yourself lucky! It means you've either thrashed Windows and can't boot no matter what you do, your main hard drive has crashed, or some other ghastly disaster has made your PC sit there dully and stare at you.
I do love these little drives -- if I had need for another one or two I would get the Firewire version. There are articles on the internet (geek sites) that prove that Firewire ultimately has faster throughput than USB 2.x.
Digital camera Review: Iomega 160GB eGo USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive
Summary: 4 Stars
For the price it seems to be a great drive. Small, compact and easy to carry around. I had a little trouble with it at first because it was VERY slow to transfer files to from my Mac. After much research online, I resolved I needed to format the drive for Mac only instead of both Windows and Mac. It ran much faster! I only wish this information had been included with the drives documentation. I have always purchased Iomega products and will continue to do so.Digital camera Review: It only works for 2 hours after that hang and stop working at all
Summary: 1 Stars
i bought this on march and by now the drive is not working at all. The disk stop working at all. It works for about 2 hours when I try to use this again 3 weeks later this simple stop working. I try it in two different computers with Vista and XP, but both doesn't recognize it.[..].
[..]. It has a toshiba hard disk inside. The anti-shock mechanism!!! don't trust.it's a little piece of rubber that I think doesn't protect the drive at all. Don't trust this!!!
I try to get support in [...]and inmediattly they say that my drive is not ing gurarante!!! and there is clear instructions to get the waranty, you need first to validate with a probe of purchase in order to get support.
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