Iomega 1TB eGo USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive Review Discussion

Earlier this year Iomega became the first PC storage company to announce that it would convert all its external USB hard drives to the new USB 3.0 standard. The Iomega eGo series of external hard drives has been known for colorful casings and a range of storage capacities, but now Iomega wants to take the lead in performance as well. We took a closer look at the newest 1TB eGo USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive ($159) to find out if having a 1TB portable drive is worth the hefty price.

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Thanks for the review Jerry - convinced me.

Amazon.ca has this for $129.99 at the moment - I slapped my money down. Nice to see that it's exactly the same price on Amazon.com.

 

With companies like Intel and others saying there is no need for USB 3.0, I would point them to this article.

 

Let's face it: There is ONLY one reason that Intel is dragging their feet with native support for USB 3.0 and that reason is Intel's Light Peak port/cable solution.

Intel realizes USB 3.0 is much better than USB 2.0 but Intel would make more money from Light Peak since it's Intel's proprietary standard. Sure, Light Peak has GREAT potential as a fast all-in-one port for data, video, and audio, but it isn't here yet.

USB 3.0 is here now and the only reason it isn't already inside every laptop at every price point is that chipsets don't have native support. Laptop manufacturers have to add a controller to the board to add USB 3.0 ports to the notebook and the extra expense for that controller means low-priced laptops don't get USB 3.0 right now.

I don't know what AMD's excuse is for not jumping in with native support for USB 3.0, but I have to confess to being a little annoyed that every notebook doesn't have USB 3.0 ports.

 

You're preaching to the choir here, Jerry. Although coincidentally I've wondered that very same thing, why AMD hasn't jumped on board with USB 3.0.
I've said it here in the forums before and I'll say it again. There's absolutely no reason not to have widespread adoption of USB 3.0 now. Intel are just being jerks about it because they want Lightpeak to succeed so badly. Honestly it seems anti-competitive to me, as they sit on the USB board and have a lot of pull in the industry.
If Intel wont be supporting USB 3.0 natively with Sandy Bridge, I'll boycott Intel indefinitely, because that behaviour is just inexcusable. They've abused their position before, and they're doing it again now with this. Just a quick look at Newegg reveals A LOT of USB 3.0 external peripherals. There's definitely a market for it, and the market wants it.
AMD supposedly will be supporting it natively with Llano, but that's not due out until 2H of 2011, so we'll see.
That's all I have to say about it.

 

Put on your boycott shoes then, because they already announced it won't be supported until Ivy Bridge, which isn't due till late Q3/Q4 2011 earliest.

On-topic, I thought I'd mention I have had very good luck with ineo external enclosures featuring WD black drives.

 

Already on and laced up. But please, if you're going to quote me, quote me in context. I said why I would boycott Intel, because of it's anti-competitive attitude toward USB 3.0.

Either way, those were some good numbers from the article. It's a nice performance increase.

 

Amazon does have it at $129.99 for the "Ruby Red" version, but if you like the "Midnight Blue", you can have it for $109.00. Perhaps, like sports cars, red makes it go faster.

 

Doh! I missed that. Shame on Amazon.ca the prices have now gone back up, so good thing I jumped in. "Midnight Blue" for us Canadians is actually $5 pricier than "Ruby Red" at $154.99. Go figure. I believe the red may indeed be faster

I received my drive already (in time for Christmas!) and it's very nice, but currently waiting for a USB3.0 expresscard adapater so I can put it through its true paces.

 

Jerry I'm now a happy owner of this portable hard drive, so thanks again for the review.

I'd be interested to know if your tests were conducted via a built-in USB3.0 port or via an expresscard adapter? This might have some impact on the speed perhaps? I've now received the AKE USB3.0 single-port Expresscard/34 adapter so could put the drive through its paces myself.

My CrystalDiskMark test results are attached showing comparable results to Jerry's - very nice! I also ran a test copying a single 43.2 GB file (blu-ray iso) from the Iomega drive to my DELL's hard disk (Hitachi 500GB 7200rpm) - this took almost bang-on 8mins giving an average transfer rate of 90GB/s, which I'm very pleased with

Full marks to both the Iomega drive and the AKE Expresscard/34 adapter.

 

What HDD is inside the enclosure? Seagate?