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Iomega Prestige 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive 34270 | 
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| Brand: Iomega
Category: CE
List Price: $103.99
Buy New: $77.97
You Save: $26.02 (25%)
New (28) Used (1) from $77.97
Rating:  102 reviews
Sales Rank: 10
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 500
Size: 500 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 4.4 x 6.1 x 8.9
Warranty: 5 years warranty
MPN: 34270
Model: 34270
UPC: 742709342707
EAN: 0742709342707
ASIN: B001D7REIK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Easy-to-use: simple USB 2.0 interface; just plug and play | | • | Stylish and durable: stylish drive - available in a dark silver brushed finish; sturdy aluminum construction with included stand | | • | Secure: EMC retrospect HD (PC) license is included for easy file backup (software available via easy download) | | • | Energy efficient: powered by an Energy Star qualified adapter for a better environment |
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Product Description
The Iomega Prestige Desktop Hard Drive USB 2.0 provides a simple and affordable solution for all your storage needs. Ideal for adding capacity to your system, this stylish drive offers a sturdy aluminum construction and included stand. It's the easiest way to save photos, music, videos and more, plus the Prestige Desktop Hard Drive is powered by an Energy Star qualified adapter for a better environment. EMC Retrospect HD (PC) software license is included for easy file backup (software via download).
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| Customer Reviews: Read 97 more reviews...
 Works exactly as advertised! January 6, 2009
Aniruddha Khandekar
Bought this as a backup device, the biggest selling point for me was the "Power" switch as I have read that other backup devices are "always on", and that leads to premature failure.
No complaints at all so far.
 Lost my data in 3 weeks! January 6, 2009
Roxanne K. Ong (White Plains, NY United States)
It looks great, feels great and is quiet and so easy to install. Those are your pluses. But 3 weeks later, I get an error that says "Delayed Write Failed... the data has been lost." I chat with support and they tell me "Any hard drive that you have sooner or later will go bad. It is a mechanical thing that they will wear out. When that happens can't be known. What happens if you need to use the drive for backup, it is only a backup drive if the data that you have on the drive is also somewhere else. If it is only on this drive then it is a archive."
I was livid. I understand if after a 6 months, things start conking out and I should have made a triple backup, but 3 weeks? Plus I didn't even move the drive, it's been sitting pretty on my desk. My husband bought an iOmega a while ago and warned me that happened to him and I thought it was a fluke and he was probably unlucky. Including me, this makes 100% of the people I know who owned iomegas portable hdd dying on them.
While the argument of hard drives will conk out eventually is understandable, i do not see this happening for desktops or laptop hard drives (talk about mobiles) -- which then I can only conclude is they use inferior quality resources to manufacture.
bottomline - buy at your own risk and it's not a viable backup solution.
 Bulky and requires adaptor January 6, 2009
S. K. Biche (Denver, CO USA)
I have purchased this product online from Amazon and found that in picture it looks handy and small but actual its bulky and requires external adapter. When I received this product I found the HDD is making noise I havent expected my new HDD should make noise.
 Lots of Bytes for the Buck January 6, 2009
Vecchio Bill
I bought the Iomega Prestige 500 GB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive 34270 for $79.99 + $6.76 handling and shipping. It arrived in a timely fashion and worked right out of the box. It comes formatted with ntfs which was recognized immediately when I plugged into a system running Linux (Fedora 8). This drive is working quite well so far though I only turn it on as needed. For that reason, the on/off switch is much appreciated. I bought this drive mainly for use as a backup device, though very important data is of course backed up on dvd as well. I used gparted, as found on Parted Magic, to shrink the ntfs partition and create two more partitions, a Mac OS hfs+ and Linux ext3. The three partitions are ~ 78, 82, and 240 GiBs respectively. (note: parted magic has added hfs+ partion creation to gparted.) So far I have backed up data from xp, mini-mac, and linux thus achieving some piece of mind. (I backed up the entire fedora 8 linux installation before upgrading to fedora 10). The disk works well and, if it proves to be reliable, I will consider it to be a very worthwhile purchase. At a total cost of $86.75 for 500 GiBs the cost is an astounding 17.35 cents per GiB. (of course you only get around 466 usable GiBs). So for now I'll give it a thumbs up.
Automatic backup of new data would be nice January 6, 2009
Todd Allen (Provo, UT)
I've only used the product once. Automatic backup of new data would be nice, but it is a lot of memory for a low price. I'm happy with the purchase.
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