Iomega 500GB Minimax Hard Drive with Dual Interface + USB/FireWire Hub
Specially designed for the Mac mini, the Iomega MiniMax Desktop Hard Drive add 500GB of capacity to your Mac mini and a built-in USB and FireWire hub.
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Overview
It's compact, stackable form takes up minimal space but provides maximum storage to manage, organize and protect your digital photos, music and movies in stylish simplicity.
The Iomega MiniMax hard drive comes complete with Dantz Retrospect (Mac) software for hassle-free backup and disaster recovery to ensure your digital content is always safe and secure. In addition with integrated FireWire 400 3-port hub and USB 2.0 high-speed 3-port hub, expanding your system is easy.
This hard drive has the same footprint and matches the industrial design of the Mac mini.
Features
- USB 2.0 High-Speed 3-Port Hub.
- Firewire 400 3-Port Repeater/Hub.
- Smart interactive cooling system with thermal probe automatically regulating fan speed.
- Large passive heat sink to radiate heat away from hard drive.
- Special micro security slot designed to allow the HDD to be anchored to a desk.
- High quality aluminium coloured plastic.
Specifications
- Capacity: 500GB.
- Data Transfer
- FireWire 400: up to 400Mbps (50MB/s).
- USB 2.0: up to 480Mbps (60MB/s).
- USB 1.1: up to 12Mbps (1.5MB/s). - Interface
- 3 ports FireWire 400.
- 3 ports USB 2.0 (downstream)
- 1 port USB 2.0 to connect to Mac mini (Upstream).
System requirements
Mac
- FireWire 400: Mac OS 9.2 or higher.
- USB 2.0: Mac OS 10.2 or higher.
- USB 1.1: Mac OS 9.2 or higher.
- Your hardware device must have proper port or PCI card.
PC
- FireWire 400: Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP.
- USB 2.0: WinME/2000/XP.
- USB 1.1: WinME/2000/XP.
- Your hardware device must have proper port or PCI card.
Most Useful Reviews
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Iomega 500GB Minimax Hard Drive with Dual Interface + USB/FireWire Hub
Reliable backup device
Written by AE from London
Jul 9, 2007
I have used this drive to back up data from two Macs for the past six months and so far I haven't had a problem. Firewire has the advantage over USB if you want to make an exact copy of your computer's hard drive and be able to boot up from it. …More
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Iomega 500GB Minimax Hard Drive with Dual Interface + USB/FireWire Hub
Works perfectly with Airport Extreme :D
Written by WR from Cupertino
Mar 14, 2007
Installed Airport Disk Utility, plugged it in via USB and it worked instantly. I even shared a USB pen drive off of the hub at the same time. Once you have saved the password in your keychain the drives auto mount to the desktop every time you connect to the network. If you want to rename the drive, plug it directly to your computer first though. Not quite sure what went wrong for the other person? Maybe that drive was faulty? Still I bought it anyway - and it works - 500GB of Network Attached Storage - Wheeeeee :D …More
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Iomega 500GB Minimax Hard Drive with Dual Interface + USB/FireWire Hub
BE CAREFUL
Written by MD from Bray
Dec 19, 2006
Even if the Firewire Hub / USB hub is very attractive as it's all combined with a hardrive, the Firewire HUB is very unstable... I was happy to free up my MacBook pro and MacMini from about 160GB of cluttered data. But it generously lost everything (catalogue of the drive) when I tried to plug another hardrive(Lacie so shouldn't be bad) on the firewire hub... Well, happy days!!! So use at your own risks... otherwise as a hardrive it work just fine... …More
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Most Recent Reviews
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Iomega 500GB Minimax Hard Drive with Dual Interface + USB/FireWire Hub
Its ok!
Written by MD from Winchester
Aug 30, 2009
I have boat it not long ago and now stopped working and cant be mount on the desktop and cant be used at all. The system pref. can read it but thats it. Nothing worked of troubleshooting suggestion. Apparently is a normal for IOMEGA …More
1 of 2 people found this useful
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Iomega 500GB Minimax Hard Drive with Dual Interface + USB/FireWire Hub
Overheating!
Written by RS from Coventry
Apr 11, 2009
I would suggest that you do not stack this hard drive with an Airport Extreme on top. It gets very hot and after a few months your hard drive drops off the network with alarming regularity.
I had the drive case open to see if the fan was jammed, and I can't find one!
Make of that what you will...
Its a good drive until it stops working! …More15 of 16 people found this useful
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Iomega 500GB Minimax Hard Drive with Dual Interface + USB/FireWire Hub
Small, does what it says on the tin
Written by MT from LONDON
Feb 8, 2009
Handy drive, size match to Airport Extreme, sides are silver grey instead of the Extreme's white, (didn't buy specifically to stack anyway) has been reliable, quiet when not in active use, perfectly acceptable noise when in use; mine is partitioned into two, one for a back-up (bootable clone using SuperDuper) and one for the iTunes folder. Godsend when the internal hard drive went recently.
Has not been used in a stack so has been relatively cool - not sure how much the stack system warms them all up!
Back-up, back-up! Note that for a bootable back-up you may need a Firewire drive so choose a drive carefully, ideally both USB & Firewire like this one. …More9 of 12 people found this useful
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