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Summary: Don't touch this drive until IOGear fixed firewire problem!
Review: I bought this drive day after Thanksgiving 2003. It looks sleek.
Crashed Windows XP using Firewire. USB 2.0 is OK. I thought this particular unit was defective so I exchanged for a brand new unit. Same problem. Called IOGear. Company admitted this is known problem but is without any solution for 'several more weeks'. I will have to pay for shipping, send my drive in for repair or replacement. I can't believe they didn't test their products properly on Windows especially when XP has been out for years. And they should have offered to pay for shipping defective drives back to them. What a pain!
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Summary: It works, if you know what you're doing.
Review: I bought this external HD when I became worried about our network at the office. Our normal network team is extraordinary, but the company always brings in these college kids for the summer. They seem to know what they're doing, but during their first week here start having ideas about how to run things better, etc. I had an important project disappear for two days when one kid didn't come into work and finally I was able to ask him about it and he told me "Oh yeah, I upgraded (i.e. reformatted) those drives and moved everything to the Back Up folder, which is only accessible when I log in." Anyway, things are much better now that I started using my own external HD. This drive did arrive in the FAT format with 4-5 partitions. When I booted a windows XP machine with it attached it reformatted it to one NTFS 4GB hard drive. I then had XP reformat it again and it has been normal (160 GB since). I've been using this drive for a month now and have not had any problems since. The drive is very, very quiet, and has no lights other than a small blue LED. The USB 2.0 interface is fast enough that I can work from the drive and play MP3s from it as well. This has been great for moving files between computers. Everyone always asks about it and wants me to back up stuff for them, and there's plenty of room with 160GB. The manual and help on the company website though are worthless. The manual is actually for another product (the HD enclosure without the drive). So I only recommend this drive if you feel you know what you're doing. Definitely get a external HD if you have college interns coming in for the summer--God only knows what they'll do.
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Summary: POOR quality
Review: Mine just sputtered and died. It's four months old. Started really using it a week ago. Enough said. Frankly, this seems par for the course as far as these external drives go. Seems like one-in-ten go up in smoke within weeks of use. Don't put anything on these drives you might care to never see again.
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