Iomega introduces 1TB Super eGo external hard drive

Iomega's getting quite fed up with listing those GBs, and thus, it's exceptionally thrilled to be offering up a brand new 1TB model for your consideration. Fittingly christened the Super eGo, the external hard drive you see above packs a single one-terabyte HDD, USB 2.0 port and a one-year warranty. Folks who don't care to wait for a 2TB edition can grab one now in ruby red, midnight blue or jet black for $269.95.

[Scythe @ May 29th 2008 11:55AM]

What end does my liquor go into?

[dab0neman @ May 29th 2008 1:24PM]

I prefer a good (or if I'm low on $$$) bad bottle of vodka.

Is it a screw driver or is it just OJ? The boss won't know in the boring meeting that everyone's sleeping through!

[Pochi @ May 29th 2008 3:33PM]

@dab0neman

...prefer it to what? He just said "liquor."

[doomster @ May 29th 2008 5:35PM]

Pochi: what sort of car do you like?
some guy: I prefer porche myself.
Pochi: ...prefer it to what? I just said "car."
some guy: try learning English past grade 4 before you rip on my use of the language!

[Carl @ May 29th 2008 6:04PM]

http://www.trustedreviews.com/storage/news/2008/05/23/Iomega-Unveils-Luxury-High-Fashion-Portable-HDD/p1

TrustedReviews notices that it looks like a hip flask toooooooo

[giuliop @ May 29th 2008 6:39PM]

Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

[Pochi @ May 30th 2008 9:46AM]

@doomster

...are you an idiot? Nobody asked anybody what their preference in anything was, ever.

Scroll up. Read. Process. Think. Understand. Then reply.

[wickedpheonix @ May 29th 2008 11:57AM]

Insert Freudian superego joke here...

[blackfeather @ May 29th 2008 11:59AM]

An Id, an Ego, and a Superego walk into a bar...

[Apollo @ May 29th 2008 11:59AM]

Holy- a 270$ 1TB drive? That's almost a quarter a gig...

My brain just melted

[Apollo @ May 29th 2008 12:00PM]

Holy- a 270$ 1TB drive? That's almost a quarter a gig...

My brain just melted

[Ramel @ May 29th 2008 12:04PM]

You can say that again.

[neumann @ May 29th 2008 12:07PM]

The actual capacity of this drive will be only ~915 GB. I hate how hard drive manufacturers insist that 1,000 bytes is a kilobyte; 1,000,000 is a Megabyte etc.

[AJ in the East Bay @ May 29th 2008 2:05PM]

...and it probably will never change. It does make a serious difference once you start getting into TB world, so it's probably time for the manufacturers to revisit actual vs. reported storage capacity.

[Michael Scrip @ May 29th 2008 2:20PM]

With platter densities rising every few months, I wish hard drive manufacturers could increase them just a tiny bit more... to make a drive with 1025GB, so it would be the first 'true' 1TB drive.

[Lyso @ May 29th 2008 12:09PM]

How's flash ever going to catch up?

[Charles Han @ May 29th 2008 12:21PM]

well considering just regular 1 tb sata drive is 219 dollars 269 for external hd aint that bad. Seeing how, enclosures goes for 19~40 dollars. Only gripe i have is it's only one year warranty. I would still much rather get a seagate and have its awesome 5 year warranty.

[Mathieu @ May 29th 2008 12:25PM]

that's exactly why I stop watching engadget,,,
Whatever way you put it...

THIS is a 5$ hdd to usb in a RED METAL BOX

oh, I forgot with an UNKNOWN manufacturer HDD inside

I pay 100$ for 750 gig (samsung F1)

Hint: iOmega don't make harddrive

[4honor @ May 29th 2008 12:37PM]

I still have my Iomega 80GB Ext. Drive, and it works fine...

[GreatSunJester @ May 29th 2008 1:23PM]

Holy COW! Clue me in on where to order that $5 ONE TERABYTE hard drive!

[pbBlimp @ May 29th 2008 12:31PM]

USB 2? How about an eSata port?

I don't get why you'd want such a slow interface for such a large drive unless you plan on doing a kajillion small backup jobs over the course of time.

[Lazaro @ May 29th 2008 12:42PM]

firewire!

[matt @ May 29th 2008 1:07PM]

a)USB is more common than eSata
b)eSATA is limited to 2m cable length, and channel capacity does decrease as you approach that length
c)eSATA does not provide power to peripherals yet, so an extra power adapter would be needed
d)Hard disks are mostly limited by mechanical delays, and a good amount of the time are not even able to saturate a 480 Mbit USB 2.0 connection

Basically, the benefits of eSATA don't outweigh the costs...yet

[phanbouy @ May 29th 2008 2:09PM]

hi matt,

you know that no way can a 3.5" drive can be powered off a USB bus right?

p.s. you're dead wrong about the no performace increase. Tom's Hardware showed benchmarks right after eSATA started coming out. Blows everything else out of the water

[phanbouy @ May 29th 2008 2:26PM]

p.s., i got 2 3.5" enclosures for $19 each more than a year ago that have switchable eSATA and USB. still not enough price/performance ratio yet? FWIW, my own experience validates the vastly less bottlenecking in SATA mode.

[phanbouy @ May 29th 2008 2:30PM]

p.p.s. oh, and you know that SATA is the native interface of these drives, right? so the data goes right through a dedicated HDD controller than through an external peripheral bus right?

nah... ignorance FTW

[Gary J @ May 29th 2008 12:30PM]

What does a blank Blu-ray disc cost?

[Ralph @ May 29th 2008 12:41PM]

It looks like a flask.

[Chris @ May 29th 2008 1:20PM]

Boring... I've had a SimpleTech external 1TB hard drive for a while now and it was $70 cheaper at Circuit City.

[Daniel @ May 29th 2008 1:22PM]

when will 2 tb external be available?

[pbBlimp @ May 29th 2008 1:24PM]

Guess I should have said *also* an eSATA port. If only one port could be offered, I can understand why it would be USB2 just to appeal to the masses and sell the most.

But with a 1TB drive, I would hope that they'd offer a secondary, faster interface for the more technically savvy. My eSata drive at home is worlds faster than my USB 2 external drive as a backup device; both disks are 7200RPM, comparable aerial densities, and so on. I copy huge amounts of data to my external drives, and I'm definitely saturating 480Mbits since the source drive reads at well over 100 MB/sec and USB2 can handle roughly 60 MB/sec.

I want speed!!! Waaaah! ;-)

[jaco @ May 31st 2008 8:06PM]

Didn't see any mention of how this thing is powered. Does it require a brick or is it powered by USB?

[The Dude @ May 29th 2008 1:56PM]

Can anyone attest as to the quality of these Iomega portable HDDs? I'm thinking of picking up a USB 2.0+FireWire eGo for work. I would get a Western Digital My Passport Studio drive but those bitches are out of stock and I need one like last week.

[Chase @ May 29th 2008 3:24PM]

if you will dude, it is no dream.

[phanbouy @ May 29th 2008 4:03PM]

your name's lebowski, lebowski

[pc @ May 29th 2008 2:37PM]

Can some company please just add $100-$150 to the price of existing external hard drives and integrate them with a sansa taketv device already

they'll make millions

[chase @ May 29th 2008 3:16PM]

wawaweewa.


This is amazing. Now you can fit the entire illegal pirated Hollywood library in the palm of your hand... take THAT capitalism.

[Don @ May 29th 2008 3:32PM]

I cant imagine why someone needs a 1tb portable drive. I would think the drive would burn out before you even fill it up. Solid state would be cool. I sure it is in the works

[Don @ May 29th 2008 3:34PM]

Thats alotta porn lol

[CraigJ @ May 29th 2008 4:16PM]

Where does it say that 1TB is portable?

[Unknown @ May 29th 2008 10:39PM]

In the image.

[AainaA @ May 30th 2008 6:49AM]

Gosh it looks like a liqueur flask! 2TB is interesting - I wonder if they have a backup utility within it just in case.

[Don @ May 29th 2008 9:45PM]

It'll get ya drunk!

[Mike @ May 29th 2008 4:47PM]

I'm more worried about of the weight of this thing.

Even if each byte only weighed 1 tiny gram, this thing would still weigh over 2 billion pounds!

OMG!

Mike

[Kevin K @ May 29th 2008 5:42PM]

1 gram per BYTE? Haha what century are you living in?

[db @ May 29th 2008 6:30PM]

Iomega only offers a 1-year warranty on their products.

I prefer to buy a bare Seagate 1TB HD with a 5-year warranty and install it in the external enclosure of my choice. If the enclosure dies after one year, so what. It's not expensive.

[Fozzy Bear @ May 30th 2008 11:00AM]

get ye flask!