Iomega eGo USB 2.0 320 GB Rugged Portable Hard Drive (Ruby Red)
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Customer Review: Nice and portable
Summary: 4 Stars
I read a lot of bad opinions about this drive, all of them after I confirmed my purchase :-( . Anyway, the drive is performing really well. The main problem I read about was the "double USB connector": I tested the drive in 3 PCs and none of them needed the extra power of the second USB connector, being enough with only one.
The only two things for withdrawing a star are the micro-USB connector in the drive being in the same side of the activity led, so I can not see the led when I connect the drive through one of the rear USB ports in my PC, and because the Retrospect software is very, very bad. (I am right now using the drive to do images of the disk with DriveimagXML)
Customer Review: 320GB doesn't really mean 320GB
Summary: 4 Stars
Nice compact size (and ruby red color), easy hookup, no power cord needed. Unfortunately you get significantly less than 320GB, more like 280GB. All due to the formatting process, no doubt. Otherwise, satisfactory.Customer Review: Stylish hard drive with the featuers I need.
Summary: 4 Stars
stylish. fast and has firewire and usb 2.0 ports. the only con is that the HD gets a little hot, but then again all these portable HDs get rather warm.Customer Review: Good price, good looking, works fine
Summary: 4 Stars
I've partitioned this drive for fat32 and ntfs and it has worked fine on Windows and Linux. Seems like a good product.Customer Review: Amazon misprints Ruby Red as "rugged" when it's not...
Summary: 3 Stars
Something I've noticed after watching the Popular Mechanics drop test video in which the eGo camo survives a 15ft concrete-floot falll and yet the other Iomega drive, the "Iomega eGo Portable Drive", doesn't survive a 9.5 carpet-floor drop...
Well, I was attracted to the eGo after that video and thus searched for it here at Amazon via "Iomega eGo RUGGED".
My order read "Iomega eGo USB 2.0 320 GB Rugged Portable Hard Drive (Ruby Red)".
But, please note ,the above is a misnomer. What makes eGo devices "ruggedized" is the "Power Grip Band," which sells for an additional 15$ at Iomega. My eGo did not come with such a band... I'm not sure whether the "camo" color or brand comes with the band standard, but the ruby red certainly doesn't. (Actually, the Camo does come with the band as listed on its Amazon page as a part of its unique "box contents"... other colors do not list the Power Grip Band.)
The Ruby Red eGo brand is nonetheless supposed to be extra durable; it does have "Drop-Guard" technology, whereas other Iomega brands such as the Prestige are supposed to be less durable with only "Drop Shock" technology. The Iomega site advertizes the Prestige as "durable" and the whiskey flask looking portables, which includes both Camo and Ruby Red, as "super durable" -- with or without the power bands.
Anyhow, the power band is on the competition-winning HD portable that survives the drop tests in the Popular Mechanics video. But, again, this band is not included as a part of the "Iomega eGo USB 2.0 320 GB Rugged Portable Hard Drive (Ruby Red)" item.
Buyer beware...
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*Space will be edited later to include the product review after a few months of use. Stand by...