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Iomega 33721 FireWire 400/USB 2.0 120GB Black Portable Hard Drive
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Product Description
The Iomega 120GB Black Portable Hard Drive USB 2.0/FireWire is the perfect storage companion for your Mac notebook! Take files and applications anywhere! The ultra compact, USB-powered dual interface Portable Hard Drive requires no external power supply - just plug it in and go. You can take your important files, photos and music anywhere - a perfect storage solution for the mobile professional.
Product Details
- Brand: Iomega
- Model: 33721
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 230.00" h x 670.00" w x 700.00" l, 1.00 pounds
- Hard Disk: 120GB
Features
- 120GB 2.5-inch black external hard drive with USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 connections
- Support for both USB 2.0 (480 Mbps transfer rate) and FireWire 400 (400 Mbps transfer rate) for maximum compatibility
- Bus-powered design eliminates need for power supply
- 1-year limited warranty
- Device measures 2.9 x 0.5 x 5 inches (WxHxD)
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description The Iomega Portable Hard Drive Hi-Speed USB 2.0/FireWire 120GB, Black is small, sleek, and easily transportable for mobile professionals who want to bring their documents and media around everywhere with them. The hard drive has a 120GB storage capacity and features a 5400 RPM speed and a 8MB cache for fast performance.
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 The stylish portable hard drive features bus power for easy portability. No AC adapter required! View larger. View back. |
The Iomega Portable Hard Drive is stylishly designed in black to complement your desktop or notebook computer. Its small dimensions allow it to fit easily into a shirt or briefcase pocket. It is designed to withstand the rigors of being transported--built-in drop shock technology prevents it from losing data when it is accidentally dropped. Since it is bus-powered, it requires no external power supply.
Included with the drive is a Solutions CD that includes EMC® Retrospect® Express backup and disaster recovery software for PC and Mac. The Iomega 120GB Hi-Speed USB 2.0/FireWire Portable Hard Drive is backed by a 1-year warranty.
What's in the Box
Iomega Portable Hard Drive, USB cable, supplemental power cord, FireWire 400 cable, Solutions CD with user manual and backup software for PC and Mac, and quick install guide.
Customer Reviews
Simple and Efficient backups
My main criteria for buying this was its ability to be solely firewire-powered, no AC adaptor needed. It is plug-and-play, drag-and-drop simplicity and efficiency at its best. I really think this is a great little drive. Though it arrived pre-formatted to FAT32, it took less than a minute to figure out how to re-format it to HFS+ on my iMac G5.
Before having this external drive, I only made CD & DVD backups -- and rarely at that, mainly because it was tedious and sometimes problematic (insert DVD-RW disk, erase disk, burn disk, insert another disk, erase, burn, insert, etc etc). It would take all afternoon of sitting at the computer just to back up iTunes library. Now with this drive, I backed up my entire Documents, Pictures, Movies, and Music folders (totaling over 40GB) in about 30 minutes, simply dragging and dropping. I love it, and will never procrastinate backing up again!
Pros: small size; powered by Firewire; quiet; fast; easy to operate; trusted Iomega brand; spacious capacity; got it for a low price ($89.00 new).
Cons: online user's guide is web-based, not in paginated PDF form.
Quiet and fast
This hard drive performs just as I had hoped. I have several older XP computers; one is a very small laptop with a firewire port but only USB 1.1 (instead of the fast 2.0). So I needed a drive with firewire support. I had worried that this hard drive, which can be powered directly from the firewire or USB port, would require more juice than the laptop could provide through those ports. No problem: it fired right up when I plugged the included firewire into the laptop's port. It also did not need any special software to be installed on the laptop; the laptop recognized the drive immediately. The drive is very quiet and is faster than the internal drive in the laptop. This is the drive you want if you require both USB and firewire connectivity.
No complaints
An external HD with Firewire 400 and USB 2.0 interfaces. Works without a power brick in either case, and the metal case and finish are exquisite. Internally uses a PATA drive, if you care. No problems.
