Iomega Prestige Portable Hard Drive Hard drive 250 GB

IOMEGA is one of the popular suppliers of external storage drives, networking storage drives and Data recovery systems for consumers all over the world. Its head-office is based in California, USA with several branches all over the world for sales support and customer services. Established in 1980, the company have sold over 400 million storage drives to the consumers so far. Withstanding some previous controversies, IOMEGA is one of the fastest ...
...is a trade-mark sign of IOMEGA on top of the hard drive and a small light on the same side. When the hard drive has been successfully connected to the system then the light is on continuously. When you perform some tasks such as transferring any data into the hard disk, then the light blinks rapidly. It has high data transfer speed and does not interfere with the normal processing speed of your system. In rare cases, PC does not recognize the external ... more

IOMEGA is one of the popular suppliers of external storage drives, networking storage drives and Data recovery systems for consumers all over the world. Its head-office is based in California, USA with several branches all over the world for sales support and customer services. Established in 1980, the company have sold over 400 million storage drives to the consumers so far. Withstanding some previous controversies, IOMEGA is one of the fastest growing companies selling millions of hard-drives and related products to the consumers every year.

EXTERNAL HARD-DRIVES

The concept of a portable hard drive is a very simple one; it is a type of portable memory that can store all your work, applications, images, songs and almost any other type of file so that they can travel with you anytime anywhere. Being easy to carry and having a faster response time are the main requirements of today’s external hard drives. Modern day PC users usually prefer to have an external hard drive to store all their work and keep it with them all the time as a back-up. Mainly there are two types of external hard drives available in today’s present market which are:

• Desktop Hard-drive (3.5 inch, requires an external power supply, bigger in size compare to portable hard-drive but usually have more storage capacity.)
• Portable Hard-drive(2.5 inch, does not require an external power supply, very light and easier to carry and have less storage capacity )

IOMEGA ‘PRESTIGE’ PORTABLE DRIVE

Prestige is one of the famous portable hard-drive series released by IOMEGA. It’s really small, compact, well-built with drop and shock resistant aluminium body and does not require external power supply. I bought my prestige hard-drive online from Tesco-Direct. It has 250 GB storage capacity and costs me only £44.97. It weighs around 190 gram and easily fit in pocket. There is aluminium net at one side for removal of excess heat and two ports on another side.One for USB 2.0 connection and another for a power supply which is optional. It supports USB 2.0, where this USB 2.0 connection used as the power supply for the external drive and also the medium of data transfer from your system to this hard-drive. USB 2.0 has a very high data transfer rate up to 480Mbit/s and requires at least 8MB cache memory to perform any task.

RETAIL BOX CONTAINS

It comes in a red glossy box, which contains
• 2.5 inch portable hard drive
• USB 2.0 cable
• User Manual in different languages

~Minimum System requirements~

It definitely requires a built in USB connection (which also supports USB 2.0 feature for maximum output) and also works with both MAC and PC. It requires at least 128 MB ram for MAC and supports 10.1 to 10.5 versions of operating systems. In case of PC, it requires 256 MB ram and supports windows 2000 professional, XP and also windows Vista. I am using windows Vista as my current operating system, and this hard drive works absolutely fine with Vista.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

I bought my hard- drive from Tesco direct and it was cheaper compare to other electronic shops. After opening the red box, I was really impressed to see the size of the hard drive. It is really small and light. There is a trade-mark sign of IOMEGA on top of the hard drive and a small light on the same side. When the hard drive has been successfully connected to the system then the light is on continuously. When you perform some tasks such as transferring any data into the hard disk, then the light blinks rapidly. It has high data transfer speed and does not interfere with the normal processing speed of your system. In rare cases, PC does not recognize the external hard drive, but nothing to worry about. If you just restart the system, then it will detect the external hard-drive. You can also try different USB port. Other than that, there is absolutely no problem with this portable hard-drive.

~Things that Pleased Me~

• Nice and compact design.
• Very light and easily fit in my pocket.
• Fast Data transfer rate.
• Almost noiseless and does not heat up easily.

~Things to Avoid~

• Do not disconnect when you transfer your data.
• Do not just pull out the USB connector from the system; use the “Safely Remove Hardware” option and then disconnect the portable hard-drive from the system.

AFTER SALES SUPPORT AND WARRANTY

For any types of help and support, you just simply go to the IOMEGA website, then go to the support section and enter your products serial number. It will tell you about your product’s warrant and available support for your product. You can also register your product online for a better and quick support from them.

Website Address: http://go.iomega.com/en/

FINAL THOUGHT AND RECOMMENDATION

It is a nice little external hard drive with massive storage capacity. It’s easier to use and very light and compact in design. I absolutely love this external product. Price of this product may varies from time to time. Usually it costs around 50-55 GBP in shops. But I got it for only 44.97 from Tesco-Direct plus got double club-card points as a bonus offer. I enjoyed using this product and really happy with it so highly recommended.

Thank you very much for reading my review.

©Gladiator007

This review also posted on Helium and Dooyoo under same user name.

 

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