Iomega introduces 1TB Super eGo external hard drive
By Darren Murph 
posted May 29th 2008 11:50AM
posted May 29th 2008 11:50AM
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What end does my liquor go into?
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!
@dab0neman
...prefer it to what? He just said "liquor."
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!
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
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
@doomster
...are you an idiot? Nobody asked anybody what their preference in anything was, ever.
Scroll up. Read. Process. Think. Understand. Then reply.
Insert Freudian superego joke here...
An Id, an Ego, and a Superego walk into a bar...
Holy- a 270$ 1TB drive? That's almost a quarter a gig...
My brain just melted
Holy- a 270$ 1TB drive? That's almost a quarter a gig...
My brain just melted
You can say that again.
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.
...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.
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.
How's flash ever going to catch up?
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.
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
I still have my Iomega 80GB Ext. Drive, and it works fine...
Holy COW! Clue me in on where to order that $5 ONE TERABYTE hard drive!
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.
firewire!
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
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
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.
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
What does a blank Blu-ray disc cost?
It looks like a flask.
Boring... I've had a SimpleTech external 1TB hard drive for a while now and it was $70 cheaper at Circuit City.
when will 2 tb external be available?
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! ;-)
Didn't see any mention of how this thing is powered. Does it require a brick or is it powered by USB?
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.
if you will dude, it is no dream.
your name's lebowski, lebowski
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
wawaweewa.
This is amazing. Now you can fit the entire illegal pirated Hollywood library in the palm of your hand... take THAT capitalism.
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
Thats alotta porn lol
Where does it say that 1TB is portable?
In the image.
Gosh it looks like a liqueur flask! 2TB is interesting - I wonder if they have a backup utility within it just in case.
It'll get ya drunk!
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
1 gram per BYTE? Haha what century are you living in?
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.
get ye flask!