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

Total disaster

Written by EM from Espoo

4/11/2007

I've got the product for 11 months and then it just stopped working. It doesn't mount anymore to any of my Macs. And of course there is all my music, photos, software, movies and other files .. now lost

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

Appalling

Written by MH from Kings Lynn

21/04/2007

Bought this drive to compliment my new Mac Pro. However I used it on my PC Laptop using MacDrive 7, while I was waiting for the Mac to arrive. Within a day it was showing that the drive was damaged, (although it would still mount). When my Mac Pro arrived, it wouldn't show in finder. However the other drives that were plugged into it WERE showing and could still be used. Actually getting Iomega to answer emails was a pain. They did however agree to replace the drive, (after paying 20 euros for the pleasure). Still not entirely sure why I had to pay when I had only had it for a few days.
All in all, it's a huge drive for a reasonable price, (Cheaper than an Apple 750 Gig internal drive). I am adding this part on 21 April and I still haven't received my replacement drive. As a company Iomega is appalling. It takes days for them to get back to you after any emails. I would never buy another. I wish I had bought it from Amazon, (wasn't available at the time), then there would have been a no quibble return and replace.

35 of 48 people found this useful

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

Annoyed

Written by IB from Wokingham

28/05/2008

I bought one about 18 months ago and it is now so temperamental that I cannot trust it as a back up device. Very expensive for what it is.

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

this lasted 7 months

Written by DM from dublin

22/05/2008

mine just died after 7 months....barely used it either. i just used to turn it on to transfer then off. no support from iomega, and i called apple store they say speak to iomega??????

dont buy it

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

Unreliable

Written by JL from CHESHAM

25/02/2008

Always noisy (fan), unreliable with Time Machine. Died after 6 months. no eSATA interface, either. Have never trusted it.

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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.

19 of 23 people found this useful

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

Great While It Works AVOID

Written by RK from The Hyde

13/02/2008

I have had mine since October 2007. It has worked fine until last night when it suddenly stopped working and now displays 2 red lights to indicate both drives have failed!!

So 10 years of work on making files and £££ are all lost.

Yes the firewire 800 is a nice touch but in future i'll just stick with usb2 or firewire 400 on a better make of hard drive

The support website is a waste of time. It just says drive has failed and has no steps to see/detect what the actual fault may be.

It is still under warranty but as it has backed up my entire iMac and has private information on it I won't send it away for obvious reasons.

So £225 for 4 months. Buyers beware!!!!

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

Poorly designed and unreliable drive.

Written by EK from Birmingham

21/09/2008

This has got to be the worst computer product I've ever bought.

Generally you buy an external hard drive to use as a back-up device. Well if that's the plan:

DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE!

In fact if you want an external drive for any purpose:

DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE!

I bought this accursed drive to do backups using TimeMachine. All was well until I needed to do a restore when the drive fails: the dreaded click of death. Doing a quick Google it turns out these drives are notorious for failing. Notorious, they fail all the time after just a few months.

DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE!

I really can't over emphasise this: walk past it and buy something else.

You'd be better off not doing backups at all rather than buying this drive: at least you'd still have the £200 cost of this in your pocket and you'd know you weren't backed up.

DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE!

21 of 28 people found this useful

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

I am very unhappy

Written by GM from LONDON

27/07/2008

I bought one in December (from the Regent St Apple Store, mainly because of the range of plugs at the back which, theoretically make this an excellent extra hub), and it ran well for 6 months. It was used as the main machine for Time Machine, and proved reasonably quiet (but not silent) and no trouble. Then it started to click, and disappear from the desktop. Disk Utility and DiskWarrior can't do anything with it, because they say there is a mechanical error.
Since there is in excess of 500gb on the disk, I went out to buy another in order the transfer all the date before sending it away under warranty.
The second version (again bought from the Regent Street store) didn't last 6 seconds. It wouldn't show up on the Desktop. Diskwarrior said it needed initialising and called up Disk Utility to do the job. After about 2 hours of Utility trying to partition the disk I decided nothing was happening - so this one was is going back too.
It is fair to say I am very unhappy, especially if I have trouble recovering the data on the drive.
Time Machine is a great piece of software, but rather useless if the backup discs are questionable. Having also gone through 2 LaCie 500gb drives, I am wondering if any external hard drives are reliable enough - a thought Apple should address.
I can't recommend this machine based on my experience.

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

Don't waste your money

Written by MO from Telford

30/07/2008

I agree with others below. I first had a 640GB Ultramax as my Final Cut Pro scratch disc and had all my films (over 24hrs) on there when it simply stopped working 7months after purchase. Eventually Iomega replaced it with a 1TB Ultramax which lasted 5months. I had recaptured all my FCP video again and going out of the country I stored other important large files on there and then removed it from the G5 and hid it away in a bedroom (in case of break-in and loss of G5). When I returned to the UK 7weeks later I retrieved the Ultramax, reconnected it to the G5 and....nothing! It never worked again.
Everything else was backed up but all my FCP scratch discs and associated files were too large for my other hard discs so I lost the lot again. Okay, stupid but who would have thought two Ultramaxs would fail within 7 and 5months of purchase. Would I buy another ? Not on your life.
And as for the Iomega "award winning website", not helpful, and they expect you to pay to discuss their equipment when it packs up 70weeks inside warranty.
My advice, buy LaCie and forget this. The Ultramax looks good but that is all I can say positive about it. If you buy one you will be nervously listening for the little click that indicates Doom from Day One, I promise you. Can I give NO stars, okay one for looks.

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

Two duds

Written by KC from Clonmel

15/03/2007

Bought one, DOA. Returned to Apple (by the way no problem with return..kudos to apple!!). received replacement today. DEAD!! Have 4 LaCie HDs...no problems. AVOID!!!!!

25 of 39 people found this useful

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

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

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

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

D.O.A.

Written by WD from London

14/04/2007

I received this drive today - dead on arrival. Apple refuse to deal with it, so I have a choice of a 20 euro call to Iomega, or wait 4 days for an e-mail reply (due to the week-end). I'll never buy a non-Apple brand product from an Apple store again. Apart from that... the drive looks great, with a pretty blue light & two red ones (indicating failed drives). Fan is quite noisy - but I've heard worse.

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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?

6 of 6 people found this useful