Product Description

Great capacity with style to match! The Iomega eGo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3989 in Consumer Electronics
• Size: 1 TB
• Brand: Iomega
• Model: 34268
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD
• Original language: English, French, Spanish
• Dimensions: 8.10" h x 1.65" w x 5.00" l, 3.42 pounds
• Memory: 8MB
• Hard Disk: 1000GB

Features

• Stylish blue external hard drive with 1TB storage capacity
• USB 2.0 connection offers up to 480 Mbps transfer rates
• EMC Retrospect software provides powerful backup options
• 1-year limited warranty
• Device measures 5.0 x 1.6 x 8.1 inches (WxHxD)

Amazon.com Product Description
With the Iomega eGo Desktop USB 2.0 1 TB Hard Drive, you'll have plenty of space to back up all your digital media, with a stylish design to match. Featuring a sleek midnight blue design and plug-and-play functionality, the eGo Desktop is compatible with both PCs and Macs.

The eGo Desktop drive provides a good balance between disk space and physical size. View larger.

Stylish Looks Complements Your Home and Office
With its midnight blue color and sleek, rounded case, the eGo Desktop brings great style to your desk. It provides the ideal balance between storage space and physical size. At a compact 5.0 x 1.6 x 8.1 inches (WxHxD), the eGo won't take up too much space and is still small enough for easy portability, letting you bring your files with you when you need them.

Play Your Digital Media Anywhere
With an impressive terabyte of storage capacity, the eGo Desktop holds up to 4,000,000 photos, over 18,500 hours of music, or 1500 hours of video. The drive features a USB 2.0 connection for up to 480 Mbps transfer rates and virtually guaranteed compatibility no matter what computer you connect it to, be it a PC or a Mac.

The drive includes a license for the award-winning EMC Retrospect Express software, which provides fast backups and added protection for your data. The software features a powerful interface that allows you to schedule either a single or complete system backup, personalize your backup schedule and location, back up open files, back up without logging in, encrypt files, and obtain backup verification. With EMC Retrospect Express, you'll never have to worry about losing your data again. And, with the built in integration of Mozy Home Online Back up software you're always safe against theft or destruction of your data. MozyHome offers a simple, secure online backup service to store your critical data offsite.

The Iomega eGo Portable USB 2.0 1 TB Hard Drive is backed by a one-year warranty.

What's in the Box
Iomega eGo hard drive, USB cable, power supply, EMC Retrospect Express backup software, and quick install guide.

The eGo adds a functional and stylish touch to your desk.

Customer Reviews

Works with Macs, too, but follow these instructions
I've copied these instructions from a guy called Charles Paulsen who posted them in an Amazon review of a Seagate USB drive. They work perfectly for the iOmega eGo too. I was having a hard time reformatting the drive for my Mac and kept getting error messages. This did the trick. Takes two minutes, if that.

1. Open Finder > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
2. Click on the Partition tab
3. Click on the Current Volume Scheme drop-down menu and select One (1) partition.
4. Click Options. From the Partition Schemes provided:
5. Click on the GUID Partition Table radio button
-OR-
Click on the Apple Partition Map radio button
6. Click OK. Select other options as desired (e.g., Volume Name, Format, etc.).
7. Click Apply. The Partition Disk screen opens.
8. Click Partition. At this point, the volume dismounts from the desktop and the drive is partitioned and formatted.

And you're good to go.

Lousy customer support
When this works, it's a great drive BUT if you need support, the online support is very limited and it's $25 just to talk to a real person even when you have a warranty. Also, even though data recovery is IOmega's specialty, they will not retrieve data from a returned hard drive unless you pay big bucks. Stay away from this company.

Like it!
There's not much to say about a product that just works out of the box, but that's what this one did! And it looks great too. Small and quiet with a couple of nice features like the 'on' light and an on/off switch.