200GB Firewire+usb 2.0 HD7200RPM Combo Ion-drive 3.5IN

Rating:
Summary: A dud ! A palpable dud !
Review: I chose an IOGEAR product because of the 3 year warranty. I know of no other company offering more than 1 year. Unfortunately, despite spending 2 days trying to get this thing to be recognised by any of 3 computers that I tested it on, I failed miserably. Was I unlucky enough to get one of the rare duds that fell between the cracks or is IOGEAR Quality Control non-existent? To heap insult upon injury I had to pay the shipping to return this useless object to the "The Nerds.Com".

Rating:
Summary: Quiet drive, runs cool, lots of storage
Review: I purchased my Iogear 200gb firewire/usb2.0 drive from "another online store" because they had the drive "in stock" & they had a coupon for a percentage off.
Unfortunately, amazon didn't offer this drive when I needed it and I had to order elsewhere.

After nearly a month of calls & emails, I finally received my drive from "the other online store" and other than the serious lack of customer service or ability to ship in stock items in a timely manner, I must say that I really like the drive.

It's sleek design kind of reminds me of car designs from the 1950's.
The case is a plastic material, that believe it or not, runs much cooler than my maxtor external hard drive.

The drive is relatively quite when reading/writing data.

The drive came formatted & is actually 186gb.

It features both firewire & usb2.0 interfaces and an on/off button on the front. Included in the box is the drive, power cables, as well as usb and firewire cables, and cd & manual.

My computer recognized the drive within a few seconds & I was transferring data in minutes.

All of the literature, both on "the other online store" as well as on iogear's website indicate the drive has a 3 year warranty which is a BIG reason I purchased this drive. Unfortunately, the box in which my drive came in indicates the drive has a 1 year warranty. I registered my drive online and the registration process states a 3 yr warranty.

I'll be doing more investigation to see how long the warranty actually is.

The only complaint I have is the blue indication LED on the front... this thing is BRIGHT and annoying!! I fixed this by covering the indicator LED with a post-it note.

Rating:
Summary: Easy Plug and Play
Review: I was sort of freaked out by the previous review, but bought the Ion anyways, based on the recommendation of a friend. It was simple to use, and very, very fast.