Iomega hard drives get a Super eGo
Thu May 29, 2008 10:34PM EDT
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It's amazing how most portable hard drives are available in terabytes these days—and
for a really good price. A few weeks ago, I bought a tiny 320GB eGo hard drive
to store all my pictures, but had I known Iomega was going to release a hard
drive capable of holding one terabyte, I would've waited.
The once slim eGo
hard drive is now a bit thicker, but it can obviously hold more data than it
did before. Iomega is calling it the Super
eGo because it can hold up to 4 million photos, 18,500 
hours of music, or 1,500 hours
of video. If you have tons of video like me, then you'll be glad to know you can store them all in one decent looking hard drive instead of three.
It's compatible with both Mac and PC and available in three stylish colors that include red, blue, and black. You can find it online or in select stores for about $270, which is not bad considering it is a terabyte.
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2 Posted by nerd160 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:36PM EDT Report Abuse
I have a WD Passport and I think it works great. Fits in my laptop case and it never gets hot like my others. On another note, does anyone know what happened to the "Tech" tab on the Yahoo Home webpage?
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3 Posted by ben.dekko on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:05PM EDT Report Abuse
Just a thought. If someone actually had enough photos, music, etc to come close to filling up a 1TB hard drive, think of the problems if that hard drive failed. It's almost like putting all your eggs in one basket. I think I'd rather have 4 - 250GB drives and suffer the relatively minor inconvenience of switching between them.. Chances are all 4 drives won't fail at the same time.
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4 Posted by nolo_8 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:40PM EDT Report Abuse
Just get a Simpledrive 1 TB. I bought it at Best Buy for $200 3 weeks ago, look for the deals.
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5 Posted by ddmcp2000 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:39PM EDT Report Abuse
ben.dikko, you are absolutely correct. MOST of the lower priced 1T externals drives are in actuality a pair of 500G drives in one enclosure. RAID configurations like this (striped) literally DOUBLE the chance of failure. If one drive fails for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, everything on both drives is gone, immediately, and forever. If you really want to buy a 1T drive, spend on the more expensive ones, and get a single 1T drive in an enclosure. Reliability is MUCH higher.
1 Posted by gabake420 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:05PM EDT Report Abuse
gee, if only there were a way I could buy an external HD case that I could put whatever size HD into for about 1/3 the price of this marketing scheme...