Iomega Prestige 1 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive 34275

10 Review to this product

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  S. Dempsey
  August 31st, 2008 on 8:03 am

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  I’ve had the Prestige for a little over 2 weeks now. It works great.
  
  -There’s No annoying software (like my friend’s WD Mybook)
  
  -Runs super quiet
  
  -I’ve had it on for hours at a time and it only gets a little warm
  
  -It’s got a cool stand
  
  -It has a power switch

  I’ve been very impressed thus far and would highly recommend this hard drive. Only downside is its actually about 465 gigs [Edit: This review is for the 500GB HD], but most hard drives are like that. The reason I say so far is externals seem to be prone to crashing if you read reviews. Hopefully it lasts forever though.

  Again, Sweet hard drive.

  Edit: I’ve had it for over a year now. I have left it on for days at a time. This thing is unstoppable.
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  J. C. Bye
  September 18th, 2008 on 7:47 pm

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  So far, I am extremely pleased with this purchase. It was delivered ahead of the promised delivery date and all I had to do was plug it in. I did re-format it to NTSF fromat but I have had no problems with it at all.
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  D. Kates
  September 19th, 2008 on 8:13 pm

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  This item is very easy to use. No one has a lot of time to do things and this product was able to take things off my laptop and put them on this hard drive very quickly. I also receive it in a couple of days.
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  Janet Palma
  September 30th, 2008 on 12:49 am

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  My first external hard drive was a WD500, but two months after the warranty expired, so did the hard drive. It is now in my trash bin. I talked over the possible reasons for its early demise and it came down to the drive is always on, which could easily burn it out. The Iomega has an on/off switch, so I only have to turn it on when it is time to back up the computer. I think this may be a much better design and will give it a longer life.
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  Buck457
  October 8th, 2008 on 10:14 am

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  I just need a solid drive to backup my files, music and pictures. This one suits the bill just fine. I do not use any back-up software, so I cannot vouch for the one you can download from Iomega. I just drag the My Documents folder from my laptop over to the external hard drive icon and all my stuff gets copied. I bought this one on the strength of earlier reviews and have not been disappointed. Mine has been quiet and has not shown any heating problems. I may even buy another. (I did, a month later Second one is great,too)
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  Tullio Fontana
  October 9th, 2008 on 6:16 am

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  After 2 1/2 years battling with a SimpleTech unit, which refused to stay connected, I decided to buy a replacement HD to keep my 10,000+ photos. After doing some research, I chose this unit and I must say that so far, I am very happy with it. My Dell recognized it right away. The unit is quiet and access is very fast. I certainly recommend it.
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  T. Gerencer
  October 24th, 2008 on 9:06 pm

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  I’ve got 21 iomega drives – I’ve been using them for years and I’ve never had a problem – though a contract employee of mine said one of his died. (He actually just shipped it to me and yep – it’s dead.) I just bought my first 1TB drive and I’m psyched. I’m using it to back up my old, lower-capacity drives. It seems as solid as the others. I’m going to fit all the video and projects on my first six drives onto one drive now! It’s smaller than any of the others, too – as far as external physical dimensions. They got the dimensions wrong on this site – it’s 8 x 4.5 x 1.25. It’s awesome. I’m a pro video producer and now thanks to these drives (and a smokin’ laptop) I’ll be super-portable. I think I’ll wind up with everything on 4 or 5 of these now. Killer product. I love these things.

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  NOTE – I now own 5 of the new prestige drives, and one of them has stopped working. Luckily I back everything up. I’m still buying the drives, and I’m hopeful that Iomega will replace it, but you should know I lost one of these newer ones.

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  NOTE – No, I didn’t lose it after all. It was acting wonky for a while, but that was at least six or seven months ago, and I haven’t had any trouble since. (It wasn’t linking up to the computer, but that stopped after about a week.) It’s been working fine since then.
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  Richard Van Os
  November 21st, 2008 on 7:50 pm

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  I plugged it into the USB port on my laptop and it was ready to go. My primary use is to consolidate and backup data from multiple computers and this has plenty of room for music and photos.

  This is an excellent value considering I just paid $75 for a 16gig scan disk. It is well built and doesn’t have a very large desktop footprint.

  This drive is a little to large to lug around every day so I wouldn’t consider it portable, but other drives fill that role.
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  Craig Hartley
  November 22nd, 2008 on 8:12 pm

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  I stopped using Iomega products several years ago (remember the infamous “click of death” infesting Iomega Zip drives?) But after reading the Amazon reviews, I decided to get the Iomega 1TB drive.

  It is about half the size of my old 350 GB Maxtor hard drives, costs half as much, and has three times the storage capacity! I plugged it in and Windows XP had it up and running in seconds, no fuss.

  As a test, I transferred two gigs of photos (I’m a photojournalist) and it backed up two gigs in two minutes. It is almost perfectly silent.

  I didn’t bother downloading the free Retrospect Backup software; I always back up manually as part of my business routine.

  If I ever have a problem with this drive, I’ll update this review. Otherwise, I rate it as a perfect high-capacity drive, period.

  Update note: been using it 18 months now, no problem. Works fine on my new Windows 7 64 bit machine.
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  Jerry Saperstein
  November 24th, 2008 on 11:56 pm

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  Amazon offers this unit for less than some big-box stores. Another good reason to buy from Amazon.

  Always remember that outfits like iomega, LaCie, Fantom and others are packagers, not hard drive manufacturers. There are only a few hard drive manufacturers and all of them turn out good products. This does not mean that hard drives don’t fail – they do and anyone who keeps only one copy of critical data is a fool.

  The units I purchased both had current models of Seagate Barracuda drives installed: excellent devices. Right now, the drives themselves from some sources cost only a few dollars less than the iomega unit, so you are getting the external housing for just a few dollars.

  The housing has a power switch, very nice at a time when other manufacturers are eliminating such “frills” and a white activity light on the side, which strikes me as a strange place for it. Since the housing has no fan, there is no fan noise. The noise from the drive itself should be imperceptible. (If it isn’t, return the unit immediately.)The housing remains cool to the touch in use.

  The unit size is nice and a plastic base is included for those who prefer a vertical mounting.

  A power supply and USB cable round out the package.

  One of the very nice aspects of this unit is that there is no software installed on the drive – nor is any included in the box. Yea! The drive comes NTFS formatted and, for use with an Apple Macintosh, must be reformatted.

  Overall, a very nice value.

  Jerry