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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Iomega 2 TB USB 2.0 eSATA 3 Gbits Professional Hard Drive - 34527

With a true eSATA interface for the fastest speeds available, the Iomega Professional Desktop Hard Drive eSATA 3 Gbits/USB 2.0 offers a powerful, high-performance storage solution. Now available in a sleek silver design in up to 2TB capacity and includes Iomega Protection Suite software via easy download. eSATA is up to 6 times faster than USB 2.0 It's a quick, easy way to save photos, music, videos and more. For an additional safety net, Iomega Never Down software (PC) is included via download so you can boot & work from your eSATA hard drive plus quickly restore your PC in case of a system disaster.

Size: 2 TB Color: 2TB Brand: Iomega Model: 34527 Platform: Windows Format: CD-ROM Original language: English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 8.88" h x 6.06" w x 4.44" l, 2.81 pounds Performance Driven - eSATA performs 6x faster than USB 2.0 or FireWire 400! 3 Gbits/s eSATA connection saves you time Secure -Iomega Protection Suite included to protect your data and your computer. Reliable - Compliant with the new eSATA standards Create a safety net for your system files with complete external backup of your operating system, applications, personal settings 3 Year warranty with product registration

Professional Hard Drive eSATA 3 Gbits/USB 2.0 2TB At a Glance: Up to 500,000* Songs (MP3s) Up to 800,000* Digital Photos Up to 770* hours of DVD Video Up to 240* hours of HD Video   Package Contents Desktop Hard Drive Stand eSATA/USB 2.0 cables Power Cord Quick Start Guide * Contents refers to number of songs, photos, or hours of video saved on a hard drive. Contents are calculated as follows—Songs (MP3): 128 kbps bit rate using 11:1 compression ratio, 4 min/song; Digital Photos: 2.5MB per JPG photo using a 6 mega pixel camera; DVD Video: 5.5 Mb/s (2.597 GB/hr) data rate. These examples are for illustrative purposes only.

Most helpful customer reviews 12 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Maybe best eSATA for price at time I bought it By Make IT happen I probably use this a little differently than most people. I have several computers and a network NAS (Synology DS109) that is used for central storage, so instead of backing up an individual computer, I am backing up my NAS. I had previously been backing up to a USB 2.0 drive that finally died. I didn't want to spend too much but needed 1TB, wanted the eSATA speed, but the option of using USB if eSATA didn't workout (the Synology runs on a Linux kernel and I wasn't sure of compatibility). So this one popped up on Amazon as being the proper capacity, option of eSATA or USB, waranty, really good reviews, and a great price for all that. So far so good, backed up 250 GB (200,000+ files) from the NAS in about 6 hours. Not as fast as I thought, but I don't use any of the included software and the bottleneck could be on my NAS. It is important to note that backing up a few large several GB files only takes seconds, it is when the system has to enumerate tens of thousands of files that it takes longer so I can back up 12 GB of 3 ISO files in seconds, but 1GB of thousands pdfs or pictures may take 10+ minutes. Like some other reviews, no real heat issues, and actually runs very cool now that the single initial large backup is done. I've had it for almost a month, the NAS backs up to it every 4 hours, never fails, and everything is there. It came very fast through Amazon (about 2 days on Super Saver shipping) and came with all the needed things. It was supplied with both the USB and the eSATA cable. 5 stars for this one from me. 10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Software not compatible with Win 7 By C. Ryan The drive works great, fast SATA connection instead of USB is a big plus. But I bought the drive in part for the "Never Down" software which is supposed to back up your system drive. It's "included" by which they mean it's not actually in the box, you have to download it. It wouldn't install and then Iomega told me it's not compatible with Windows 7 (which has been out for a long time now). I told them the box lists Windows 7 as being compatible, they said what that really means is it's compatible with the drive, not necessarily the software. Apparently the box means whatever they want it to mean. Bottom line, don't buy this for the software. 15 of 18 people found the following review helpful. It's fast! It's huge! It works as advertised! By Hyped1 I was in desperate need of backing up my entire PC after a hardware failure. This was on my laptop which caused me to temporarily find religion as one does when you feel you are going to lose 500 gb worth of irreplaceable data (in the form of art files, portfolio assets, and general work data!) also wanted ot have enough room to spare so I went for this bad boy at 2 times the size of my back up to allow for expansion. It installs quickly, comes with eSATA cable making it appear as just another hard drive in your system and transfer data very quickly to and from your hard drive. It comes with back up software which allows you to setup back ups as needed and is foolproof. I waited for this drive to become in stock once again and it was well worth it! See all 71 customer reviews...

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