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

You're Iomega 1TB is not dead!!!

Written by HB from London

2/11/2009

First of all I do use two of these intensively in my recording studio.
It is a quite reliable hard drive, but if you have the latest mac pro,
I suggest you add internal drives for faster performances.
I thought my recordings where partly lost a year ago after my disk appeared to
have crashed badly.
I did everything I could to get the data back.

To all of you that have valuable data stored on this 1TB
don't throw it away in case of failure (strange noises, red light or two green led
blocked) it is not as bad as it looks.
The answer was actually very simple in my case. I bought a new power supply,
and plugged it to the HD and everything was back to normal for a year.
Due to very poor quality, the power supply doesn't last more than a year.
The HD itself is reliable they just have very bad power supplies...
Iomega must have changed this power supplies because it tends to be very bad for their reputation.

All the best

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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

Iomege hard drive

Written by DB from Magherafelt

28/09/2009

This is my third such hard drive bought over a one year period,as a professional photographer and using RAW files you can imagine how fast a hard drive fills up. I use the first one of my drives as a back up system for a time machine and the other two for storing clients work, i have owned other brands of hard drives but found them to be slow and not worth the money spent on them,all round i could not praise the Iomege hard drive enough and have encouraged my fellow professional photographers to purchase this device.

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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

Great hard Drive

Written by PF from Galway

8/09/2009

I have had this HD for a little over a year now. Absolutely no problems with it. You just have to remember to hold the power button in for a few seconds or it wont turn on and give the impression that its DOA. A little noisy but very reliable.

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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

Recovered

Written by BO from LONDON

13/06/2009

I've had one of these drives since they were released. Unfortunately after a few years it started to make some pretty unhappy sounds and eventually would not start. Fair enough, it had taken a battering in terms of never being switched off and almost constantly being used for backups.

So I left it for around 10 months, disappointed that I may never recover some of the data, but still happy enough to purchase another one of it's type (I'd read that sometimes the power supplies die, so a new drive with a new power supply might work). Today I read that if you simply hold the power button on for a around 5 seconds, they would "reset" themselves. I did and it did. Drive is back! Fantastic!

Now to back it up... onto new media.

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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

RUN! SAVE YOURSELVES!!

Written by EG from LONDON

27/05/2009

This is a very UNstable drive in an attractive cool blue lit enclosure. Mine begun it's slow and pathetic death after a mere 8 months of casual use. It was one of three drives (the other two were from a different brand and still going strong!) in a music studio. I felt from the start that i had made a mistake with this drive as it was extremely noisy compared to my others, even in sleep state. Performance was very fast over firewire 800 and setup time is minimal.

Powering this thing up is by push and hold for a few seconds until you hear the two whimpering drives spin-up, not such a big deal but annoying nonetheless.

I would sincerely suggest you look elsewhere if stability and longevity are your highest priority.

...And yes, I have lost unretrievable data in this useless hard drive. Run! Run hard!

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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

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

Waste of MoNEYYYYYYYY!!!

Written by CP from SAN FRANCISCO

22/03/2009

This is the worst IOMEGA product I have ever had in my life. Just look nice but work like a trash!!! I have used it for only 6 months but it is dying. It hangs many times and forced me to turn it off and on to be able to work again after I put my Mac sleep for a while. Makes my wallet crazyyyyyy.

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

Good looking but poor build quality.

Written by AT from Leichhardt

9/03/2009

This is a good looking product but is marred by build quality. I have had my hard drive for about six months and so far the power switch has completely failed however long I press it. Fortunately plugging the power into the AC mains does mean it comes on. In addition the fan became extremely loud and permanently on. I use it RAID 0 mode for audio and video scratch files so have fixed the fan noise by disconnecting it. In addition if my Mac Pro goes to sleep the disk drive hangs with both disk access lights lit up and can only be fixed by unplugging it. Even if the disk drive is unmounted before sleep it still hangs when the machine wakes up. I would not use this drive for critical data.

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

Good when it works

Written by SW from CIRENCESTER

6/03/2009

This drive has recently failed on me. Luckily I was backed up; I would not trust this drive after reading all the other negative reviews and from my own experience.

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