Iomega announces Power Pro Desktop Hard Drive with 2TB of storage
By Evan Blass 
posted March 29th 2007 5:35PM
posted March 29th 2007 5:35PM
If your current drives are just stuffed the the gills with 10 megapixel photos you never resized and episodes of Still Standing that you forgot to erase, Iomega's got a new RAID array that'll bulk up your storage by two terabytes and let you continue living your carefree, digital pack rat lifestyle. With four independent, lockable 500GB drives, though, you could just as easily shift the Power Pro Desktop Hard Drive into RAID 1 and make sure that your 1TB of never-used files are doubly secure; RAID status plus free space, fan speed, and temperature are all displayed on the built-in LED. Connectivity options are also plentiful here, with the PPDHD offering both the 400 and 800 flavors of Firewire and, of course, USB 2.0 as well. Mac and Windows compatible, this one will set you back $1,700 when it hits on April 10th.[Via Macworld]
This is a RAID enclosure, NOT a hard drive, please don't confuse people, and not very interesting of a product considering there are dozens of such enclosures to choose from.
What's wrong with Still Standing?!?!
Iomega == SHIT.
thank you Iomega for bringing this new technology to the world! some people hate on you but i know you are the real innovator when it comes to hard drive enclosures!
love,
JTM
"... and let you continue living your carefree, digital pack rat lifestyle."
Four words:
rofl
I've been using a Buffalo TerraStation, that I bought in August 2006. 4x SATA 500gig drives in Raid-5 NAS enclosure for 1.5 T.
You can do Raid 0, 1, & 5. Easy web interface to configure it.
The killer is the price. I paid 1,200$ Canadian for it! I don't get all those other closures that are more expensive and not even Gigabit Ethernet.
Next year I'll swap out the 500gig'ers for 4x1000gig'ers and upgrade 2 PC's in Raid-1.
I live 20 minutes from Iomega HQ in Utah and I can't believe Iomega is still attempting to survive. They have been dying ever since CD-burners and flash-drives became mainstream. Why do I need to pay more than 50 cents per gigabyte for storage? There are many enclosures I can get that have raid 0,1,5 capabilities and many even have USB2 and Gig-ethernet connectivity. Hard-drives are rather inexpensive. I can get a 3 terabyte system with raid 5 (4 1 terabtye drives, you lose one to parity)for less than $2000 (50 cents a gig by 4000 gigs).
Dying? Iomega has been dead to me ever since the adventure in data loss that was the Jaz drive. I, too, learned the horrors of the Zip click of death. I would never trust Iomega with anything important. Not even to haul my trash.