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BrandIomega
Item Height
7.8 centimetres
Item Width12.2 centimetres
Hard Drive
Hard Drive InterfaceUSB 1.1
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Product Description
Manufacturer's Description
Iomega UltraMax Desktop Hard Drive adds secure, high capacity storage to your computer system. With its triple interface solution, the Iomega UltraMax Hard Drive delivers transfer rates of up to 800Mbits/sec and can be connected to any computer equipped with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, or Hi-Speed USB 2.0. Plus, this high performance drive includes RAID 0 for higher data throughput, a three port USB hub and three FireWire ports for expanded storage and full-system disaster recovery software for easy, worry-free backup.
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Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / CapacityTB1Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Spindle Speedrpm7200Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Buffer SizeMB8Technical DataStorage Controller / TypeNoneTechnical DataDimensions & Weight / Widthcm12.2Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Depthcm24.5Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Heightcm7.8Technical DataDimensions & Weight / Weightkg2.3Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Interface TypeIEEE 1394b (FireWire 800) / IEEE1394 (FireWire) / Hi-Speed USBTechnical DataStorage / TypeHard driveTechnical DataStorage Controller (2nd) / TypeNoneTechnical DataHeader / Product LineIomega UltraMax Desktop Hard DriveTechnical DataHeader / CompatibilityPCTechnical DataHeader / ManufacturerIomegaTechnical DataHeader / Packaged Quantity1Technical DataStorage Hard Drive / Hard Drive TypeExternal hard driveTechnical DataExternal Hard Drive / Power SourceIncluded AC adapter
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
I purchased the Iomega drive 3 months ago and was impressed when I realised that it was pre-formatted with HFS+ for my MacBook Pro. However, after two months the drive began having issues mounting on the desktop and would not hybernate when the laptop went into sleep mode. Two weeks ago it began displaying read /write issues and would not allow me to copy to or from the drive. I contacted iomega via email and received back a rediculous email. I then managed to get someone on chat who was equally useless. I then had to pay 20euro to get phone support despite the item still being within warranty. They told me that it was a hardware issue and that I would have to send the drive to them at anothe £20 expense to have it fixed. I lost 800GB of photos, music and personal files which they advised that they could attaempt to restore at a cost to me of between £700 - £2500. This is the second time I have bought a drive from Iomega and the second drive to competely die. Iomega's support is rubbish and their drives are equally so...don't trust your precious data on their equipment
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
The short review:
DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE
I, like most people, bought this drive to use as a back-up device.
All was well for all of 3 months and then the dreaded hard drive click of death at the exact moment I needed to perform a restore...
DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE!
I did a quick Google to see if there was a simple fix and discovered to my horror that this is drive is notorious for failing after only a few months. So I wasn't unlucky: the drive is just really poor quality.
DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE!
And to add insult to injury, the default RAID setting means that if just one of the two drives fails then you irrecoverably lose all your data (I'm excluding the £1700 cost if you take it to a professional data recovery firm as uneconomic for most users. If your data is worth that cost then do yourself a favour:)
DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE
DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE
I, like most people, bought this drive to use as a back-up device.
All was well for all of 3 months and then the dreaded hard drive click of death at the exact moment I needed to perform a restore...
DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE!
I did a quick Google to see if there was a simple fix and discovered to my horror that this is drive is notorious for failing after only a few months. So I wasn't unlucky: the drive is just really poor quality.
DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE!
And to add insult to injury, the default RAID setting means that if just one of the two drives fails then you irrecoverably lose all your data (I'm excluding the £1700 cost if you take it to a professional data recovery firm as uneconomic for most users. If your data is worth that cost then do yourself a favour:)
DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I bought this product from the Apple Store and thought that my backup issues were over. After 3 months drive failed i.e. the interface isn't working. E-mailed support no response. Live chat with 'Support' - i.e. a 12 year old child overseas -was told within 1 minute that it was a power supply problem.... curious - the lights were still on. They then posted the replacement to the wrong address. More 'chats' ensued finally got a replacement power supply (total one month later). Guess what! Drive lights still came on and it still didn't work. Contacted them again and was told me that they would fix the drive - I had to send it to them and they wouldn't commit to my data being retrieved. I was referred to a local Iomega data restoration centre to be told that it would cost £1700 (minimum charge) even though I am convinced that the drive are okay. I then found out that if the data centre recovered my drive then the seals would be 'broken' and Iomega wouldn't repair the drive under warranty. Enraged that THEIR data recovery agent recovering my data would invalidate my warranty I gave up (6 weeks later). Do yourself a favour and do not buy this product. Regards.
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