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What Do You Think of Iomega External Hard Drives?

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  • 07-08-2007 5:56pm
    #1
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users Posts: 14,993 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey Folks,

    As the title says, what do you folks think of iomega external hard drives? I was planning on buying this enclosure and a Western Digital 80GB IDE drive. The total would come to just under €80.
    I then saw that I could get this 120GB Iomega drive for just €2-3 more and it's a whole 40GB more for virtually the same price. What's the quality of Iomega's drives like? For some reason I've never really liked them, even though I've never owned one. I realise Iomega don't actually make the drives themselves, but they don't use the latest Seagate, Samsung or WD drives as far as I'm aware.

    So what do you think? Should I stick with the enclosure and the 80GB WD or go with the Iomega?


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    eoineen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 187 ✭✭eoineen


    This might seem silly but in 1999 I had one of their tape drives for backup and not only did the hardware suck, the software provided never worked properly EVER.


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    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    For €85 you can get a 250Gb WD MyBook.

    Solid piece of kit popular with a good few people around here.


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    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users Posts: 14,993 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Thanks irlrobins, but the two drives I mentioned and linked to are 2.5" drives, so they'd be a little more on the portable side than the MyBook! :p


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    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Opps forgot to read the small print :p Mind you the MyBook is not massive...


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    ghost26ie
    Registered Users Posts: 334 ✭✭ghost26ie


    i currently have a number of external harddrives including a 500gb iomega. its great for storing data but when its connected to PC i cant connect any other hard drives to my PC. its a problem i dont get with other external hard drives, so i would suggest getting a maxtor, western digital or a seagate.


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    Anti
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,401 ✭✭✭✭Anti


    Agreed, iomega are nothing but hassle for most people.


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    expediateclimb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 122 ✭✭expediateclimb


    Bought an 80gb Iomega a few months ago and it packed in after only one week. Could'nt reboot it and it kept making a weird clicking sound. Man was I pissed. That said got on to Iomega's tech support and they were pretty helpful. They advised me to e-mail them a pic of the serial number and nxt thing I know a new one comes in the post a few days later.

    Have'nt had any problems with the new one......

    So far ;)


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