Iomega eGo USB 2.0 320 GB Rugged Portable Hard Drive (Ruby Red)
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Customer Review: Not for Windows 7, 64 bit
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a great portable storage unit with one exception: it doesn't work with (2) Windows 7, 64 bit systems in my company. I have (1) eGo 320GB and (2) eGo 250GB hard drives. I tried getting help from Iomega with no luck. My computer IT guy couldn't get them to work either. They still work great with my other Windows XP, 32 bit systems. You won't be disappointed as long as you keep them away from 64 bit systems.Customer Review: Can't Recommend It
Summary: 2 Stars
Have you ever had that feeling when you open up a very high quality product that you have complete confidence in it and you made a good decision getting it?
Well, this one is just the opposite. As soon as I opened the box and saw that the included USB cable would not work, I had a sinking feeling about the drive.
I've got a Mac laptop with a USB port on each side. The distance between the included drive is about 5 inches. No way it is going to work. Iomega should know better and send a cable that reaches both ports. Seagate includes such a cable. Minus 2 stars.
I'd suggest buying a better brand.
I borrowed a cable to see if the drive would fire up. It did, but it only has 298 GB of space. The box said 320 GB. Losing over 20 GB is a significant loss. Minus one more star.
I'd suggest buying from a more reliable company.
Customer Review: Beauty of this external drive is only skin-deep
Summary: 1 Stars
This is my third Iomega external drive - the first two ran like champs, and did trouble-free automatic backups with software that was easy to install and low-maintenance. Alas - they wouldn't support my new laptop,so I bought this model.
The backup software for this drive is hard to find on the Iomega site, hard to optimize, and a pain to use. The support material on the website is hard to navigate. (I wouldn't even have known the drive needed to be optimized for PCs if I hadn't read these reviews on amazon.com.)
I actually returned the first one of these I ordered because I couldn't get the backup software loaded and running per Iomega's instructions. I still can't get daily backups to run quickly and properly, and usually end up reverting to manual backups. What's the point??
User-friendly: NOT. I'll probably replace this drive soon with a different brand just because of the software issues, and give this one to someone who has time to fiddle with the nonsense. Iomega really dropped the ball on this one!
Customer Review: Drive failed within 1 hour
Summary: 1 Stars
Bottom Line: Drive failed within 1 hour. Will return to J$R World for replacement or money back, not sure yet.
Longer Story: Was excited about getting a product that offered both Firewire and USB capabilities. I purchased this drive partly due to the overwhelming favorable reviews. Maybe I just got the one in a million bad drive, but not sure I'll go back to Iomega so quickly. This device failed within the first hour after beginning to backup documents. My computer somehow suddently failed to recognize the drive during the transfer. Moved drive to two other computers and somehow the drive could be recognized but not used. Kept asking to be formatted. When I'd attempt to format the device it would finish by saying drive was not successfully formatted. There was no way to get around the problem or fix it. Drive couldn't be formatted and drive couldn't be used without being formatted. NOTE: I also tried it back on the same machine where it originally failed. Still didn't work.
Customer Review: Died from a 3 foot drop
Summary: 1 Stars
I had it for 3 months and it is dead. The light comes on and I hear the disk, but computers can no longer see the drive.
I dropped it from 3 feet on my wood floor. It was idle when it dropped, but apparently that does not matter.
Do not believe the term "rugged." It was not a bad drop at all, yet it killed the drive.
Oh well.