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Death
05/18/09

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I've owned way too many faulty Iomega products to ever consider buying anything else from them.
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not_a_virus.exe.vbs
05/18/09

@Death: I have only owned one, the Zip. Now whenever I see anything iomega I don't even bother.
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Nick
05/18/09

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Iomega eGo Hard Drives are good enough, smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like them.

Fixed it.
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collectiveego
05/18/09

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sick, eGo is my steam id, crazy...i really want one now.
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Nick
05/18/09

@collectiveego: and what's your steam password?
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Kaiser-Machead
05/18/09

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For a while, I've wanted a portable HDD that I could use on a laptop, but I was always on the fence about the quality of a lot of these things. Another issue was being able to easily open the enclosure up, and toss the drive if ever I wanted to upgrade, so I bought one of these...

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All it really requires is snapping the drive onto the chipset then screwing it in place. I very much prefer these things over prebuilt portable externals.
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frigg
05/18/09

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Seems fair enough, until you realize this is the same company that made and then STOPPED MAKING the Zip drive.

So yeah, sure, "pretty enough," "cheap enough" yada yada yada. But just wait until you buy one of these only to find out in 10, 20 years IOMEGA will STOP supporting them!
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AmishJohn
05/18/09

@frigg: I was considering more the whole 'portable-click-o'-death' problem...
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szrimaging
05/18/09

@frigg: Wait...you are getting at them for not supporting a technology that was passed by newer, better technologies that there was little to no demand for? Wow, just wow. Lets face it, the Zip Drive was doomed once portable hard drives like these became accessible.
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Kaiser-Machead
05/18/09

@szrimaging: I'd say the SD card is the better replacement for the Zip drive than the portable hard drive. Only problem is that not everyone has a reader (I'm looking at you Apple).
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frigg
05/18/09

@frigg: ... was sort of kidding about the OMG it will be obsolete in 20 years thing!!!... *shuffles back under bridge*
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