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Iomega UltraMax Hard Drive, FireWire 800/FireWire 400/USB 2.0, 1TB (2HD x 500GB) - 33720 | 
| Brand: Iomega
Category: CE
List Price: $282.99
Buy New: $268.74
You Save: $14.25 (5%)
Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 2084
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 1000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.7
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 12.2 x 5.9
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 33720
Model: 33720
UPC: 742709337208
EAN: 0742709337208
ASIN: B000KCT5IG
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Capacity - 1TB (2 x 500GB SATA) | | • | Formatted - HFS+ | | • | Fast 7200 RPM | | • | Compatible with PC and Mac | | • | 8MB Cache Buffer or greater |
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Amazon.com Product Description
With three connection interfaces, the Iomega UltraMax Desktop Hard Drive 1TB ensures that your data can be accessed no matter where you take it. With 1TB of storage capacity, you'll be able to save up to 4,000,000 photos, 18,500 hours of music, 1,500 hours of video and more.  | The Iomega UltraMax Desktop Hard Drive 1TB offers: - An easy way to add 1TB of storage space to a computer.
- Three connection interfaces including FireWire and USB for fast speeds and compatibility.
- Stylish looks that complement a Mac.
- Included backup software.
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Three connections, including the fast FireWire 800 interface, offer great compatibility. View larger. View profile. | Speedy Performance with Wide Compatibility
The Iomega UltraMax hard drive can deliver transfer rates of up to 800 Mbps when connected via the FireWire 800 interface. The drive also supports FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 for nearly universal compatibility. For added convenience, a three-port USB hub and three FireWire ports allow for additional connections. The drive supports RAID 0 for the ultimate performance, RAID 1 for data security, and JBOD, or just a bunch of disks, for maximum capacity. Stylish Device Complements Your Mac
The drive itself has a sleek and silver design that complements the style of a Mac, and the stackable design makes it easy to add more drives for additional storage. The drive is HFS+ preformatted making it able to work with Macs right out of the box. Included is EMC Restrospect Express software for easy system backups and it allows for reliable recovery in case of failure. The Iomega UltraMax Desktop Hard Drive 1TB is backed by a 1-year warranty. What's in the Box
Iomega Desktop Hard Drive, FireWire 800 (1394b) cable, FireWire 400 (1394a) cable, USB 1.1/2.0 cable, power cord, Solutions CD with user manual and backup software for PC and Mac, and quick install guide.
The UltraMax offers multiple RAID options for maximum flexibility. |
Product Description
TB is a terabyte. 1TB is 1,000GB. The triple interface Iomega UltraMax Desktop Hard Drive 1TB adds secure, high-capacity storage to your computer system with a sleek compact design that compliments the Mac G5. This high performance, HFS+ formatted drive includes RAID 0 for higher data throughput and RAID 1 for data security, a three port USB hub and three FireWire ports for expanded storage, delivers transfer rates of up to 800Mbits/sec and can be connected to any computer equipped with FireWire 800, FireWire 400, or Hi-Speed USB 2.0. Plus award winning EMC Retrospect software is included for full-system disaster recovery and easy, worry-free backup. Stackable design allows for stacking of additional hard drives for even greater capacity Secure - Professional-level backup and disaster recovery for all your critical data with EMC Dantz Retrospect Express software Great for Mac Users - One of the only drives preformatted in HFS+ Windows VISTA ready also works with XP and 2000 Works with Mac OS X 10.1.5 or higher
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 No complaints after a couple months July 30, 2008
Steven Meigs (University of South Florida)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this a couple months ago to use with my Intel MacBook Pro and have had no problems of any kind. The drives run cool, the fan is quiet, the Firewire 800 is blazing fast, and it spins up very quickly. I set it up for RAID 1 for redundancy and best data protection (which obviously cuts your storage space in half to 500 GB, as some buyers apparently didn't realize). The company does not provide very good instructions as to how to change from the default RAID 0 setting to RAID 1, but there is a great review below by J. Thompson that provides excellent, easy instructions. I am so pleased with this drive I will probably buy another soon.
 BUY AN IOMEGA ULTRAMAX AT YOUR OWN PERIL!!!!! July 22, 2008
HAW (Palo Alto, CA USA)
I bought an Iomega UltraMax Double 640 Gig drive, and the drive was dicey from the get-go.... with a wierd booting sequence that always made me uncomfortable. I use the drive for video editing, but not that often, so the actual hours on the drive were very low. I did, however, have about a month's worth of editing on the drive, when bingo, it failed due to the Iomega-made controller card failing. After a huge rigermarole to get through to their service dept, I learned that they ONLY replace the entire drive, and don't have controller cards available separately. In querying the tech support guy for 20 minutes, I finally determined that the ONLY way I can get my data off these drives is to buy another drive, and use the controller card from that drive to fix my own drive. Is this SERIOUSLY lame or what? Clearly, it's indicative of a company that only cares about maximizing profits, not serving customers, and when you're looking for a company trust fo storage of your critical data, you'd be a fool to deal with a company that operates on this principle.
Iomega used to be a good company years ago, but after they were bought by EMC, customer care must have been tossed out the door. EMC did the same to another great product, Retrospect, which I had used for years and had to drop for the same reason. Shame on you Iomega & EMC, and fie on all your houses.
don't depend on this drive July 9, 2008
Mr. Warren S. Cook (Eagle Point, Oregon)
I have four of these drives, designed to replace a bunch of older external drives; the first three work great, but the fourth, an newest ( less than a month old) just crashed, along with a 100 meg of files...Amazon says they will replace the drive if Iomega does not solve the problem, but the telephone numbers they list are no good.
If one out of four is good enough for your, then go ahead...But that is not a good record for me.
 So far so good June 12, 2008
Julien (Boston, MA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good product with competitive price. It's very compact and just a little noisy, but very fast and easy to use as long as you need it set up in Raid 0 and use it with a Mac. Works great with Timemachine, plenty of outlets in the back and FW 800 is definitively the faster. I use it for HD video editing and back-up.
No good for PC's; Bad customer support. June 1, 2008
C. Page
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have a PC with Vista, and it's already inconvenient that you've got to reformat the drive for a whole day--but then there's a whole slew of other issues that quickly arise. After connecting the UltraMax to my PC, a "generic USB hub" driver installed itself on my computer. Next, I turned to the reformatting instructions on the CD, replicated on the Iomega website, but they were clearly written for Windows 2000 and XP (not at all useful for Vista). Finally I looked to Iomega's customer support, which was uninformed and inattentive. They actually made several suggestions that simple Google searches proved incorrect.
More on Iomega Customer Support: the live-chat-support paired me with an Iomega technician who would disappear for 5 minutes at a time, periodically returning with the wrong answers. The support forum is littered with horror stories of drive failures that got a string of generic diversion-type responses from Iomaga that went something like this, "is the power cable plugged in?," "you'll just have to live with it.," "cross your fingers.," or "contact Apple/Microsoft/(anyone else we can divert their customers to)." To top it off, Iomega charges something like $25 per call, and even charge people for email responses.
After my new drive finished it's day-long reformatting, I've discovered the USB2.0 data transfer speed tops out at a whopping... 4.5 mb/s. Not sure why it's so slow, but I'm confident that an accurate explanation will not ooze out of the Iomega support unit.
Bottom line: Iomega is clearly sloppy business that tries to nickel-n-dime its customers to maintain struggling revenue; it pawns pretty drives prone to failure; and it leaves customers in the dust with careless technicians and per-communication charges. I already lament my week-old decision to buy this drive.
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