Product Description
Take files anywhere, in style, with the Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive USB 2.0 - an extremely durable drive which includes patent pending Drop Guard feature to withstand the toughest of travel environments. Available in 160GB capacity, it holds up to 640,000 photos, over 2,900 hours of music and 240 hours of video. Plus, the Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive requires no external power supply and includes a free EMC Retrospect HD backup software license.
Features
-Stylish and sleek red 160GB external hard drive with USB 2.0 connection
-USB 2.0 offers up to 480 Mbps transfer rates
-Bus-powered design eliminates need for power supply
-1-year limited warranty
-Device measures 2.1 x 0.7 x 6.6 inches (WxHxD)
Customer Reviews
Very Solid Portable Drive
I bought the eGo to back up my Powerbook. It is very solidly-built; light, but it simply feels well-built. It is a bit bigger than some portable drives, but it seems like the extra mass is to protect the internal workings. Operation is very quiet and smooth. I got the Firewire version, so I would be able to boot my Mac from it if I needed. Iomega includes both a firewire cable, and a dual (power and data y-split) USB cable. I had no problems powering the unit off of just Firewire, but plugged both the firewire cable and the USB cable in at the same time. It worked great, using the firewire as the data cable. I used Apple's Hard Drive Utility to format it for my Mac before I started, and it went along flawlessly. Hard drives, themselves (minus the enclosures), are hit and miss at times when it comes to reliability, but this one feels good and reliable to me. No problems at all yet.
Also, I had very speedy, no-nonsense delivery from J&R Music.
Iomega eGo 160 GB
When I first bought this portable hard drive, I had major problems getting it recognized through my USB enhanced plug-in 2.0 card, even using the pigtail y-connector for additional power. My computer would recognize the portable through a single hardwired 1.1 USB, but the transfer rate was unacceptably slow. I solved the problem by purchasing the external power supply from Iomega (only place it is sold) and dumping the EMC Retrospect Express HD software which was useless. The software, which had to be downloaded from the Iomega website, was intermittent; sometimes it would start to work, other times it just created unusable restore points and never did create a full backup. WinXP has a backup utility, which is not as pretty or graphic, but does the job quickly. In XP Home Ed. it's found on the original discs and needs to be installed into system tools, a fairly easy operation. Overall, the eGo 160 works well, especially if you drag & drop to copy files, but portability is sacrificed somewhat if you have to buy the power adapter. Oh, and don't forget to format the drive into NTFS to get the most of the storage space if you use Windows, before you start!
Nice small external hard drive
The unit self loads quickly thru the USB port, and because of its small size it is very portable. Just what I needed to carry all my photos and music everywhere with me. So far no problems whatsoever.
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