Iomega Prestige 2TB USB External Hard Drive - $125 with free delivery

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  StewBalls on 08/02/2011 - 14:40

  +5

  Honestly, given the recent $99 deals for 2tb ext drives at HN et.al., I'd be expecting USB3.0 at that price.

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  Domingo on 08/02/2011 - 14:46

  +1

  Also, I have one of these. I could manually transcribe the binary data faster than using file transfers onto this thing.

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    llama on 08/02/2011 - 15:24

    I am using using a couple of 1TB external drives for various things, and doing a copy of a 4-5GB game ISO is like watching paint dry!

    I was considering a new 2TB for use as an off-site backup, but I am gunna wait for a USB 3.0 unit. The USB 2 interface is too slow to allow the full capacity of these big drives to be used in a practical fashion.

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  Kkuba on 08/02/2011 - 14:49

  +1

  agreed, not a special price, but, you can get a WD elements (and i think WD is the best of all the mainstream externals, and much better than Iomega) for 3 dollars more, not even on special.

  http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Dat…

  although the free shipping does give it some merit, good if you can't get to a store i guess, so not going to neg

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  infinite on 08/02/2011 - 17:01

  You can get far better quality 2TB external's from Seagate & Samsung's for the same price as this, not even on sale. The 2TB WD drives are only a few dollars more. This deal is not even close to a bargain.

  Staticice currently shows this piece of poop drive for $10 cheaper elsewhere, not on sale, too.

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    ejsteven on 08/02/2011 - 18:36

    There are probably better bargains that this but to say that there are "far better quality" externals shows you have never used one of these let alone tested one. The prestige line are fantastic drives… I've had my 500GB for a year and its been dropped from half a metre several times (while in operation), sat on, crushed under books and it hasn't faltered once. The case still looks brand new even after all the abuse.

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      infinite on 08/02/2011 - 21:14

      +4

      The only thing that shows is that you have butter fingers & need a bigger hard drive :)

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        ejsteven on 09/02/2011 - 00:30

        Well I only used up half of my 20tb fileserver at home but I think you're right I probably need more :-)

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      johnno07 on 08/02/2011 - 21:17

      +2

      You should not be allowed to own expensive things.

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        ejsteven on 09/02/2011 - 00:34

        Unfortunately being a student pretty much enforces that rule :-(

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      Domingo on 08/02/2011 - 22:39

      Erm. I have this 2TB drive. The write speeds are absolutely woeful. Having a hard case doesn't make it a good hard drive. Samsungs, Seagates and WDs generally have much higher write speeds.

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        ejsteven on 09/02/2011 - 00:53

        Please. We're talking about USB2.0 not firewire, eSata or USB3.0. Real world maximum transfer rate is like 35MBps.. The bottleneck is the connection not the harddrive speed so I highly doubt the Iomega is much slower than the rest. Plus if you see the reviews for this drive in amazon.. plenty of people will disagree with you (http://tinyurl.com/4ztmp6x). Besides if you ever try opening your drive up, chances it will be using a Samsung, Seagate or WD drive anyway since Iomega don't manufacture harddrives for ordinary consumers AFAIK.

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        Domingo on 09/02/2011 - 08:41

        I would love 35MBps on this drive. I'm usually lucky if I can get 12MBps. I don't think the drive is the bottleneck, it's most likely the controller inside the iomega enclosure. I have used WD and Samsung external HDDs in the same setup and experienced significantly faster write speeds.

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  eddie3330 on 08/02/2011 - 19:02

  Not a good value deal, Considering the recent prices and discounts avaliable at retail stores.

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  [Deactivated] on 09/02/2011 - 00:24

  Not a bargain. Better brands to be had at equal/better prices.

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  kml22 on 09/02/2011 - 08:23

  -1

  Ebay deal should be ban from this site.