Iomega Prestige 1 TB USB 3.0/USB 2.0 SuperSpeed Portable Hard Drive 35306

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Product Description

A sleek new design and great new features! The Iomega Prestige Portable Hard Drive features a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface so you can transfer files at up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 (requires USB 3.0 PC for best performance). Iomega USB 3.0 drives are backward compatible to USB 2.0 using the same USB cable. So enjoy fast speeds now if you have a USB 3.0 computer or use USB 2.0 and be confident you can upgrade later! This durable metal drive is perfect to slip in a bag or pocket to take anywhere your laptop goes. USB powered, it requires no external power supply. AES 256-bit hardware encryption is built-in so you can feel confident taking your drive anywhere. Iomega Protection Suite is included via download with several backup software solutions, plus includes a free one year subscription for antivirus software. Includes a 3-year warranty when you register your product.

Details

• Fast - With USB 3.0 you can save your media to your portable storage in a fraction of the time! Requires USB 3.0 computer for best performance
• Easy-to-use - Backward compatible to USB 2.0 using the same USB cable so no worries if you don't have a USB 3.0 computer yet
• Durable - Sturdy metal construction; Drop Shock technology on all models
• Secure - AES 256-bit hardware encryption is built-in so you can feel confident taking your drive anywhere
• Warranty - 3 year limited warranty with product registration

Customer Reviews

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Iomega prestige 500gb-super speed-super fast.

by Mark Johnson (February 28, 2011)

4 of 4 people found this review helpful

You can make the most of this device if you have a 3.0 usb compatible system. At first I couldn't use the 3.0 version since my pc did not have that usb port, but still it worked fine, plus the encrypted security software introduced with this device is really good, keeps all my data safe. But when I recently got a mac, and started using the 3.0 usb of this drive, I could see the difference pretty clearly. The data transfer speed increased upto 10 time of the 2.0 usb !! It was insane. I did have a slight hitch with the software for some time, but it's all fine now and has been so for about 8 months.

Iomega 1 tb usb 3.0 External HDD

by Brandon (February 27, 2011)

6 of 7 people found this review helpful

This is my first time doing a review for an external hard drive so bear with me please :) This is the first time I ever bought an external harddrive and I saw the Iomega 2.0 1 tb and all the other ones with programs included, etc and waited until I got this one.

Some reasons why I got this one: It's a 1TB with USB 3.0 (planning on getting a new laptop soon). It also doesn't come with any hardware like WD smartware or whatever you hear about.

The hard drive looks GREAT. It looks like the picture; it's a very dark gray, almost black brushed aluminum design. No fingerprint magnet at all. When it's plugged in, you have a pale white light that blinks and isn't distracting at all. Of course, for a 1 TB, it's a little thicker and heavier than regular hard drives. I've been transferring files for awhile and it hardly gets warm and there's almost NO sound to it. It only has a very small humming noise and you can only hear that if you put your ear onto the hard drive... Read more

Great little drive with a major setback for Windows Users

by Nathan Beauchamp "ConsumerAdvocate" (April 20, 2011)

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

*****UPDATE 06/10/2011*****

I just tried to use this drive to back up Windows 7 X64 Professional and the update failed multiple times. After researching the error that Windows was generating, I learned that the hard drive included in this drive is a new, ADVANCED FORMAT drive with a sector size of 4096 bytes instead of the previous standard of 512 bytes. Windows back-up and restore doesn't currently support ADVANCED FORMAT drives, meaning this drive is currently USELESS as a back up if you want to make a system image of your Windows machine. This is a major issue, and while I place the blame more on Microsoft than on Iomega since the new sector size will ultimately be the industry standard, it currently creates issues for Windows users for one the PRIMARY uses of an external hard drive: backing up your system.

Windows has released a windows update to address this issue, but it DOES NOT allow Windows to work with ADVANCED FORMAT drives that do not support an... Read more

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Iomega Prestige 1 TB USB 3.0/USB 2.0 SuperSpeed Portable Hard Drive 35306