Second good review on this unit I've seen... Is there any chance you can test out transfer speeds on it? I was actually pretty interested in this when I saw it on Ars awhile back, but didn't know anyone else with the unit.
I'm getting sick of having a monster full tower in the basement churning away sucking up all my hard earned cash in electricity. #iomegaix2200review
@Trevor Mitchell: From what I understand, RAID 5 on two drives isn't possible. You can do it with 3, but it's reccomended to do RAID 5 with 4 drives or more. #iomegaix2200review
@Leonce: That's more of a recommendation based on redundant failure capability, I'd say. Then again, if you're that concerned with having robust parity, you could just as easily do RAID 5 on 3 with backup to tape. #iomegaix2200review
@fluidexistence: You are, as always, balancing efficiency against catastrophic failure. Your RAID 5 efficiency is (N-1)/N, where N is the number of drives, and increases as N grows large. However, your risk of catastrophic failure is the possibility of two drives going bad at the same time, which also increases as you put more drives in the array. #iomegaix2200review
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...
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.
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!
@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.
@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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I'm getting sick of having a monster full tower in the basement churning away sucking up all my hard earned cash in electricity. #iomegaix2200review
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Lets get them to release the Source Code. Its probably Linux based anyway. #iomegaix2200review
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That seems... impossibly slow. #iomegaix2200review
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The title of the article is: Now available
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Fixed it.
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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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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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