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    Iomega eGo Triple-Interface 500GB Drive Drops a Gig In 15 Seconds Flat

    Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough

    Iomega eGo Helium Portable Drive Matches Your MacBook Air
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    Image of AqueousBeef AqueousBeef
    06/02/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Triple-Interface 500GB Drive Drops a Gig In 15 Seconds Flat
    Firewire 400 is much faster than USB 2.0. Might wanna fix that.
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    06/02/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Triple-Interface 500GB Drive Drops a Gig In 15 Seconds Flat
    RIP FW 400...you were my connection of choice. Shame on Apple for banishing you from every model except the po' man's MacBook.
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    Image of Usama Usama
    06/02/09

    @discounteggroll: Agreed. I make sure all the PCs I build for myself and my parents/sisters have onboard Firewire. Firewire rocks, kicks USB 2.0 in the arse for transfer speeds. The two newest PCs have eSATA but haven't had a chance to actually buy an eSATA drive. Still got an old WD or two kicking with Firewire. The USB ports on them are pretty lonely.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/02/09

    @Usama: Same here, except my USB's are filled w/webcams, as there aren't many affordable firewire cams.
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    Image of Death Death
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    I've owned way too many faulty Iomega products to ever consider buying anything else from them.
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    Image of not_a_virus.exe.vbs 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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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    Iomega eGo Hard Drives are good enough, smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like them.


    Fixed it.

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    Image of collectiveego collectiveego
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    sick, eGo is my steam id, crazy...i really want one now.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/18/09

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

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    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...


    [eshop.macsales.com]


    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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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    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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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    05/18/09

    @frigg: I was considering more the whole 'portable-click-o'-death' problem...
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    Image of szrimaging 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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    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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    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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