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Summary: Great product
Review: I am NOT a tekky guru and was able to install and use in very short time. The directions are not as clear as they could be but the drive proved to be exactly what Iomega says it is. It was backwards compatabile and is very easy to backup files. I also use it as simply another drive and carry it back and forth from home to work. I think I will even buy the larger one that Iomega has out.
My SysOp @ work1 is Win200; @ home XP; and @ work2 is Mostly Win 2003. NO problems using it on Fat and NSFS systems. Gets a bit warm so prop it up on 2 sticks so air flows above/below.
Rating:
Summary: Great product
Review: I am NOT a tekky guru and was able to install and use in very short time. The directions are not as clear as they could be but the drive proved to be exactly what Iomega says it is. It was backwards compatabile and is very easy to backup files. I also use it as simply another drive and carry it back and forth from home to work. I think I will even buy the larger one that Iomega has out.
Rating: 
Summary: Great except for HDD
Review: I bought this drive looking for extra room as my laptop's drive was slowly dwindling down, and I found more space than I may ever need. This drive, with USB 2.0, will provide great transfer rates, and comes in very handy if you like to download programs, games, songs or anything in great numbers that will quickly fill a lesser drive. To have this plugged in all the time would be great, except like one reviewer said, it does not shut down. You could cook an egg on it if you leave it long enough. And for the HDD, it may as well stand for Hard-Drive Dinosaur, meaning the inexplicable roaring sound that comes from the drive during moments of use and inactivity. My friend bought one and experiences the same thing, but only after a while did this begin. I think it's the reading mechanism moving back and forth. I don't know if this is a common problem, but it can be annoying. This drive is of substantial size, and the USB 2.0 cable running from the drive is very short so you'll need to keep it close by unless you can find an "adapter" cable. All in all I would recommend this drive as a vast high-speed extra storage option that could be better if it were designed by a company that realizes external hard drives aren't just backup devices, but rather something that can be used all the time.
Rating:
Summary: Great except for HDD
Review: I bought this drive looking for extra room as my laptop's drive was slowly dwindling down, and I found more space than I may ever need. This drive, with USB 2.0, will provide great transfer rates, and comes in very handy if you like to download programs, games, songs or anything in great numbers that will quickly fill a lesser drive. To have this plugged in all the time would be great, except like one reviewer said, it does not shut down. You could cook an egg on it if you leave it long enough. And for the HDD, it may as well stand for Hard-Drive Dinosaur, meaning the inexplicable roaring sound that comes from the drive during moments of use and inactivity. My friend bought one and experiences the same thing, but only after a while did this begin. I think it's the reading mechanism moving back and forth. I don't know if this is a common problem, but it can be annoying. This drive is of substantial size, and the USB 2.0 cable running from the drive is very short so you'll need to keep it close by unless you can find an "adapter" cable. All in all I would recommend this drive as a vast high-speed extra storage option that could be better if it were designed by a company that realizes external hard drives aren't just backup devices, but rather something that can be used all the time.
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Summary: Works well for me
Review: I have a 120GB HD on my PC and was looking for a way to back up all my photo's and documents as it's getting pretty full. Burning onto CD's just dosen't cut it anymore. This drive fit the bill nicely. With USB 2.0 it's pretty quick too. I haven't had any problems with the drive at all.
Rating:
Summary: Works well for me
Review: I have a 120GB HD on my PC and was looking for a way to back up all my photo's and documents as it's getting pretty full. Burning onto CD's just dosen't cut it anymore. This drive fit the bill nicely. With USB 2.0 it's pretty quick too. I haven't had any problems with the drive at all.
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Summary: One obvious design flaw...
Review: I installed the drive with no problems (Win2000) and it works extremely fast (USB 2). In fact, there is no noticeable difference between retrieval from my internal c & d drives and the external drive. The only problem is the drive never shuts down. Even when I power down my laptop, the drive keeps whinig all night long...relentlessly! There is no on/off button. Iomega support told me to simply unplug the power chord from the device when I'm not using it. That is rediculous! How could Iomega release a product with such an obvious design flaw?
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Summary: Great drive, too bad it costs so much
Review: I love my 120GB USB drive. It's perfect for transporting large amounts of data between places. With the USB 2.0 it transfers pretty quickly. I usually leave mine plugged in all the time and use it to back up all my documents, pictures, and mp3s every night automatically with the IOMEGA backup software, which works quite well. Although it comes with other software to backup your whole system which i haven't tried yet.I would probably buy another one for even more space, but they're pretty expensive. You can get an internal 120GB for half the price. So far I've had no problems, and would definitely recommend it.
Rating:
Summary: Great drive, too bad it costs so much
Review: I love my 120GB USB drive. It's perfect for transporting large amounts of data between places. With the USB 2.0 it transfers pretty quickly. I usually leave mine plugged in all the time and use it to back up all my documents, pictures, and mp3s every night automatically with the IOMEGA backup software, which works quite well. Although it comes with other software to backup your whole system which i haven't tried yet. I would probably buy another one for even more space, but they're pretty expensive. You can get an internal 120GB for half the price. So far I've had no problems, and would definitely recommend it.
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Summary: Iomega Doesn't Speak Straight
Review: I purchased this Iomega 120 Gig External Hard Drive to use to backup important files on my two XP computers. They advertise it will work with XP, but after consuming 3 whole days, trying to get it to work---as I followed step-by-step instructions from Iomega online chat techies---it still will not work on XP machines. They even had the audacity to tell me to use their CD to install the drivers, and it would work. Trouble is, their CD does not contain any drivers. It only contains their backup software. Windows XP automatically installs its own drivers, when the Drive is plugged in, but that still won't make it usable, since XP cannot assign a drive letter, and it is useless without that visibility. XP cannot recognize it as a drive because the HDD is formatted with FAT 32, while XP machines are formatted with NTFS. I got one run-around tactic after another, as the Iomega "support" people wasted my time with steps that they knew would not work. They have to know that this FAT 32 HD is not compatible with the XP NTFS, but they won't admit that because Iomega falsely advertises that it does. My only recourse is to return it to Amazon for a refund. Sorry, to do that because Amazon is such a good company, in my book. I think Amazon should reconsider carrying this items, since Iomega is not honest about what systems it will actually work with.
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