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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

Rubbish

Written by AR from London

28/10/2009

Lost the first one after ca. 1 year, had to send it to Holland on my own cost, then got 2 refurbished units (again they tried to charge me for the postal costs, which they finally waved after I had to complain a lot) and three power units, none of which worked, until they finally sent me another new unit, which in turn gave up the ghost in ca. 7 months. I don't even want to hear the name Iomega any more. Went back to buying a LaCie instead. I only gave it the one star, because they didn't let me post without it, otherwise it wouldn't even get the one.

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

Dead, in less than one year.

Written by MN from HELSINKI

20/10/2009

Be aware! This disk dies in a year. Took my 150GB music library along with plus almost a TB worth of other data. i bet Iomega does nothing to recover the data damages even the disk is under warranty.

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

don't risk it

Written by AC from London

2/10/2009

Same as a few other reviews, this stopped working in just under a year.
Fails to power up on desktop. not worth it if you are using this as backup or working server. have 2 smaller LaCie F.A. Porsche 500 GB external drives and they have been going for a few years now with no problems.

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

not good ...

Written by VT from london

17/09/2009

I have had three of these. One failed pretty soon, but I thought: **** happens (why doesn't Apple let me write such ordinary words?). We bought two more. One has just failed - dodgy first drive and then complete failure of both drives to power up. The third is OK so far. Looks good, but seems to be a bummer (hey, Apple lets me use that word - how liberal of them!). The trouble is, what is better?

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

This Drive is not worth the Money or time!!!

Written by GM from Virginia Beach

14/09/2009

I bought this drive as a Time Machine backup drive for my macbook pro and it failed in less than a year. When you turn it on all you hear is the drives trying to powerup and that is it. It looks like a soild drive but its not!!

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

run run run far away from this, it is worthless

Written by NC from avoca

5/08/2009

I bought this on a recommendation from a family member who was looking for a back up. I use my pro for family use with music and photos.

Worked fine for about 4 months and then I noticed it was not backing up on a regular basis, then stopped. This was being worked through the standard usb connection. After a while it would not recognise the usb connection so I tried the firewire connection, this worked for about 2 months.

Now there is a power issue, and as it out of warranty there is nothing that can be done. I have 1 tb of memory sitting here and can not power it up.

I would advise against this.

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

Iomega Ultramaxx 1 TB - piece of junk

Written by CC from Wavre

22/06/2009

Bought mine 8 months ago from a Belgian Apple Reseller.

Noise is bit high, but bearable, as it is only for TimeMachine purposes
I have never move it since the first day - so, no shocks or whatsoever.

Today, I switch it on : two red lights : disk failed.

I could "revive" it by holding the reset button for ten seconds, but now ... "the disk you have inserted is unreadable -> format, ignore or cancel.
And Disk Utility only sees 500 GB - not the full Tera.

I will definitely NOT format it, since it would for sure destroy my backups, and I still hope to recover them somehow.

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

Don't buy this product

Written by KJ from Maidenhead

1/06/2009

I have bought two of these units and today neither one works despite having had one swapped under warranty. As a mission critical backup device, they are a disaster since the device barely ever works and thus the data is never available. Now I am looking elsewhere and will definitely not ever waste my money buying from Iomega again

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

No No Iomega

Written by AH from Tonbridge

8/05/2009

Died suddenly after just over two years. I now have 2 500 GB seagate drives to use elsewhere but none of my digitized old videotapes. Stay away.

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

Sorry to say it failed

Written by PB from Wolverhampton

2/03/2009

Nice looking kit and really well presented. We have owned one for about a year however the drive has failed. One of the chip set alight. You would expect some degree of circuit protection to circumvent this, but it has let us down badly.

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

Loud, hot, failed at 10 months, won't honor warrantee

Written by WJ from WEST TOPSHAM

20/02/2009

I bought two of their 1TB drives. They are both loud. Then the fans turn on and they get a lot louder. Intolerably loud. I would never buy them again for that reason alone. But it gets worse.

One of the drives started to fail after about 10 months. I managed to get my data off. Reformat. The drive failed again. The warrantee is one year. I contacted Iomega via their web site, typed in the drive serial number and it said my drive was not covered by a warrantee. What! I contacted Iomega and provided them with the emailed receipts from Amazon. Iomega wrote me back saying that was insufficient proof of purchase and they would not honor the warrantee.

Do not buy their drives.
Do not buy from Iomega.
If I could I would give them zero stars.
Beware of Iomega.

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

This is OUTRAGEOUS!

Written by ST from KØBENHAVN N

29/01/2009

Of course the product works fine, it actually does what one expect from it.
Pretty loud though.
It's the second time I buy a desktop hardrive from iomega to use as a backup with time machine. So no need to tell you that the disk never move.
Yet, both died a couple of weeks after the garanty was over. And for the final touch my girlfriend bought a portable drive from iomega as well, about 6 months ago and it's already having problems.
I wouldn' recommend this product to anyone.
As SH from London, I also have a Lacie 200GB for 5 years now and it still working.

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

Absolutely Terrible

Written by MM from Gilbert

19/01/2009

AVOID TIS DRIVE LIKE THE PLAGUE!

After 11.5 months, drive acted strange and died. There is no number support unless you pay. Couldn't chat to tech support at first because my drive showed out of warranty. Was able to chat with someone by clicking Chat under the products section (not support). They first directed me to fax in a receipt. After a week or so I got an email saying that indeed they would be able to help me via chat now.

I wanted them to send a replacement drive. They sent me a power adapter instead. Then after that did not work they setup an RMA. A week later I realized they hadn't sent the drive because they want me to send back my drive first. - HOLD ON -

Simple logic: I bought a drive to safeguard sensitive data. If the drive has an issue you would think they would do 1 of 2 things for their customers, 1) Send you a drive, let you swap the drives to recover your own data, 2) perform data recovery for you after you send away your drive. THEY DO NEITHER - ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS

DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE

They obviously have designed their support system to be as difficult and non-customer friendly as possible showing they have no respect for you or your data. Nice to know before you buy a RAID system.

AGAIN, Look at all of these reviews of countless people who have suffered through Iomega's UltraMax product. If you have this drive and are happy, get a replacement put in place now before your data is gone forever.

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

Good, while it lasted

Written by SH from London

14/01/2009

I bought my 1Tb Iomega over a year ago, and used it as my TimeMachine drive. For almost all of that time it worked well, and I only used about 40% of the drive with my year's worth of backup. However, then it went wrong, and started to hang, or would disappear from the OS X desktop. Since it was just a TimeMachine backup, I could reformat and try again, but by this time the drive was too bad, and I can't even write any more to it without it hanging Finder. I would put this down to just bad luck, but my friend is now on his 2nd 1Tb Iomega, with his first having failed just after a year. I really can't recommend this drive, unless you buy another drive as well (from a different manufacturer!) to backup to. In comparison, I have 2 Lacie drives which have been running for about 3 years, and they get a lot more work (Aperture and iTunes libraries).

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

Mine lasted a full 14 months!

Written by RM from SOLIHULL

1/01/2009

Like the others here say - don't but this one. I began to trust mine after 12 months with no issues - big mistake! When it died (intermittent flashing power light - the drive went as lumpy as a big block, performance cammed V8 firing on 6.)
I took the thing apart and hit it with the board with a screwdriver (because I'm technical like that!) at the power supply area to get it to live long enough to retrieve my data.
You know if i'd sent it back - the bloke at the store would have said "computer says no" and I'd have lost the lot!

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

If you value your data... DO NOT BUY this piece of junk

Written by AT from London

11/12/2008

I have bought 2 - both of which died within a year of purchase. Both times it was the control board which is junk as so many other contributors have found. I do not know why I keep going back to Iomega who are the purveyors of really rubbish products - I am always confounded but it is my own fault.
Please take my advice and never buy anything from this company.
Iomega - bad, LaCie - good - it is that simple.

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

Died after about 6 months when used for Time Machine

Written by PS from Muswellbrook

8/11/2008

The first I knew about trouble was when Time Machine put up a notice stating the computer had not been backed up for 10 days.

It is showing lights on the front panel and it stops and starts with the power button. There is no sound of internal activity, cooling fan or drive mechanism whirring. It will not mount and neither Disk Utlity or TechTool Pro see it.

I seem to be incurring similar unreliability many others are reporting. I am disappointed that this drive is still being marketed.

Do not buy this HDD.

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Iomega 1TB UltraMax Hard Drive with Triple Interface + USB/FireWire Hub

Mine died after 10 months..

Written by EW from Täby

1/11/2008

..which seems fairly typical, from reading other reviews here. Clearly, this is not a quality product - buy it at your own peril!!!

The drive has been switched off most of the time, never left the desk, and died without warning.

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