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Iomega Select Desktop Hard Drive 1TB Anonymous, on September 20, 2009 04:03 PM| DOA Dead oout of box | Ship working units |
| I highly recomend this HDD to anyone, especially people on a tight buget in need of a cheap way to increase the storage capacity of there home or small office PC. A quick look at the specifications. Basicly it makes use of USB-2.0(on the HDD box, it says and I quote "Transfer rate: USB-2.0 480Mbit/s" {it dosent say if that is read or write but im almost certain it is read not write} but I personly think that this is the theretical maximum read data rate of the drive ,of course you will never be able to reach 480Mbit/s with USB-2.0 but transfer rates are still plentty fast enogh to store media like music, pictures and movies but dont install programs or games Etc. because games and apps Etc. require constant read and write operatins and IMO your internal HDD will be more sutable for games Etc because of faster read, write and access times.) or USB-1.1, if you do not have USB-2.0 (Your only likely to be using USB-1.1 if your PC is either: 1) Almost as old as your grandmum ;) or 2) You have a USB-2.0 Hub which is not working properly due too bad drivers or somthing else.) the HDD will have extreamly low read and write data rates when using the usb-1.1 interface. Anyway heres some more specs, it spins at 7200Rpm, also has 1Tb of HDD space (1Tb is the same as 1000Gb's of space), the onboared Cache of the drive is 8Mb, the size is about 3.5", the drive comes shiped pre-formated with the NTSF file system (NTFS is superior to FAT32), so no mucking around formating the drive, so this HDD is truely plug & play straight outta the box, also supplied is a VERY basic quick start guide, to power the unit there is also a supplied chinease "KTEC" Energy Star ® compliant AC adapter ( European style, 240V Imput and 12V===1.5A output), you will also find a cable with a male USB plug at one end and a male Ethernet plug at the opisite end (the USB plug goes in a free USB socket in the Pc while the Ethernet plug goes straight into the HDD). And finally there is one more trick up its sleeve! haha. If you take a peep inside the HDD case (PLEASE NOTE: THIS WILL MORE THAN LIKELY MAKE YOUR WARRANTY VOID. TAKE APART AT YOUR OWN RISK!) you will find that IOMEGA have made a good choice, by using the criticly acclaimed and extreamly good Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ, which has many positive reviews on the internet! Conclusion: I puchesed this HDD for backing-up stuff and just general storage really, and for the money you cant go far wrong (I payed £69.99 but I think you may be able to aquire one for less £££ if you look around but even at what I payed I am very happy with it) and if you think about it your bassicly getting a "Rebadged" Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD103UJ in an external package (ideal for someone like me with a mini-ATX case & mobo with no more room inside the case for another HDD)and also it is VERY quiet at reading and writeing to Disc. Bottem Line: A very good external 1000Gb HDD and even thogh it is cheap for a HDD of this quality, the physical construction and the materials used on this HDD apear to be solid (no cheap plastics) but still I would not like to drop it for the simple fact that all HDD's are inherantly fragile PC components , it can easily compete with the likes of Seagate, Maxtor and WD (Western Digital) 1000Gb HDD's but it is at a lot more Wallet or Purse freindly price! | I honestly cant think of anything bad to say about this really good external HDD LOL. Except maybe that the manual/quick start guide could have tried to explain more and had included the specifications at the back page. Ohhh Well, it's no biggy! Score: 97% out of 100% from me. ;) |
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