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

Works as expected...

Written by EM from Crowthorne

9/05/2009

I purchased this drive 6 months ago as a Time Machine for my MacBook Pro. I use the FW800 interface and I also daisy-chain a second FW400 drive to it.

Both drives work flawlessly; the Iomega is recognised as the Time Machine every time it is connected as is the second drive which is mounted as a normal drive (used simply as a file store). Transfer rates using FW800 are excellent, as expected from the interface.

The drive has been configured as RAID 1; this mirrors the data on the disks (the drive has two disks in it) and if one disk fails, it can be replaced without losing data.

In terms of construction, the Iomega is very well built and matches Apple designs; the improvement on the construction over previous products is an obvious benefit following EMC's acquisition of Iomega (for those who do not know, EMC is the leading enterprise storage solutions firm with their products being some of the best in the industry).

The supplied EMC software is a cut-down version of the more sophisticated solution supplied by EMC and takes some effort to get used to. But it is indeed an excellent alternative for those who do not wish to use Time Machine or have more specific backing-up requirements.

There are a few negatives; more notably the fan is more noisy than anticipated and the drive does not switch off automatically when the computer is powered down (although, strangely, the second drive does!). Also, the supplied FW800 cable does not fit tightly in the MacBook Pro's FW800 port; might worth upgrading if this proves problematic.

Based on my experiences, I would not hesitate to recommend this drive.

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

Good product - good support

Written by RM from YATELEY

22/08/2008

Iomega admits that there are some issues with the power supplies on this drive. Mine just failed, but given the serial number, they shipped a new one out to me in three days. Drive itself has been very stable and a pleasure to work with. Just about to buy number 2.

One word of advice, if it hadn't been the power supply, because its a RAID drive, the cheapest quote I got for data recovery was over £1,700 plus vat.

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

Back Up Please

Written by MP from Orcop

15/07/2008

This drive is nice, sits tastily next to my ancient powerbook, not too quiet, not too loud though, sweet LEDs for those of you who like lighty uppy things. Only problem was the power supply failed after a month, so unable to access the lovely people's wedding that was nearing completion, that and my entire itunes library....they are sending me a replacement supply though so tomorrow i find out if it is only the supply that's gone. So moral of the story, don't store your entire life on it unless your mirroring it down to 500GB. Get two instead!

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

Great product, poor support

Written by MH from Reading

1/04/2008

Purchased March 2007, and it's work faultlessly for 12 months and on just about 24x7.

It's died, 2 year warranty is fine, but try getting support from Iomega. No response for 4 days, and if you want to call them, get your credit card out, as it's 20 Euros plus VAT.

I shall be calling Apple for a replacment tomorrow.

Product is 4 stars
Service is 0 stars

48 of 72 people found this useful

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

Excellent external HD with little to let it down.

Written by AJ from Prestatyn

27/03/2008

I have had this drive for about 6 months now and it has performed very well indeed. I currently have mine set up in a RAID array to give me a hardware backup of the data stored on the drive. The FireWire 800 interface is very fast and allows for impressive video encoding direct to the external device.

The only complaints that I have are that it's a little on the noisy side (but you can switch the fans off if it's stored in a cool place) and it doesn't power up and down with your machine. Other than that, it's exceptional.

54 of 82 people found this useful

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

I love her

Written by RN from Reading

18/03/2008

I needed to edit 15 hours worth of HDV footage in one go on my macbook pro 2.4. So I bought this baby to store video data and it has worked flawlessly every time. Final Cut Express HD 3.5 was able to download entire footage from my HDV tapes to this drive using firewire 800 and gave me smooth workflow. Little noisy, I agree but hey, come on, 2 Fast SATA drives inside, what do you expect. I will buy one more of these without a doubt.

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

To good for time machine

Written by AM from West Dumbartonshire

8/03/2008

This is a speedy ext hardrive with firewire 400+800 and usb 2, three port hub is waisted, if you just use it for time machine.
Use with iMove, photoshop, garageband or any other large files and buy a cheap quality hard drive for time machine backup.

Stylish, speedy, built-in hub, firewire 800 for fast transfers.

Yes it makes a slight noise from the fan and clicking when retreving data, but its not that loud.

Great product.

26 of 58 people found this useful

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

So far, so good!

Written by DT from Marylebone

12/12/2007

Three months on, this drive has worked perfectly with Time Machine backing up hourly and daily backups using the partition.

It loses a star because its a bit noisy, other than that, its great.

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

Good product

Written by TH from Bradford on Avon

4/12/2007

Worked out of the box, but does make quite a bit of noise when data is being stored, fan noise does fade in to the background, but in a quiet room/office can sound a bit like a wasp at a window.

Full copy backup of hard dive took the best part of 12 hours so a good read of the pdf manual is time well spent, paper manual in the box is basic. As others have noted the firewire cables in the box are short about 1ft.

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

Great product

Written by DF from MILTON KEYNES

30/11/2007

Got it from JohnLewis cost a little more but then I don't mind paying more as you can pick it up from the store and return it if it becomes faulty.

I re-configured it to Mirroring mode and so far it's worked great, you only get just over 460gb, but at least you get the reassurance that it's backed up.

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

THEY MIGHT NOT BE D.O.A.

Written by MR

20/09/2007

Reading a lot of reviews that these machines are DOA that might not be the case, I thought mine was.
The remedy hold the ON button for approx 3-4 seconds they then boot up.

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

Good backup & build quality!

Written by PX from Manchester

19/05/2007

I read a few review about people receive a dead hard drive. It will more likely to be the courier rough handling rather than the product itself. I have problem in the past where driver throw items round the van. One driver dropped my order on my front garden, good job it's only software & not a hard drive!

I bought my from online Apple store, it works straight out of the box. People who use PC have to reformat the drive. Once it has been formatted for PC, you have to reformat it back to use on a Mac Pro.

I notice some user mention about Apple 750Gb hard drive more reliable than 3rd party hard drive.
Well this drive is make by Seagate NOT by Apple!
To buy the same drive with Seagate written on without Apple logo is about £100 cheaper.
So the Iomega drive is a bargain!!

Always remember, all hard drives will fail one day, is just a matter of when!

We all need at least 2 to 3 hard drives to back up all the data, when one fail you still got the other 2!

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

No problems

Written by TG from Hoddesdon

27/04/2007

Bought for DV storage, once I realised you have to keep the power button pressed a little longer than normal to turn on it has given no problems. Four months old now and 500gb of recordings, good value.

18 of 24 people found this useful