| | |  | Computer Accessories | Home » » Iomega 33962 FireWire 400/USB 2.0 250GB Portable Hard Drive | | | | | | | Description: | | The NEW Iomega 250GB Portable Hard Drive USB 2.0/FireWire is a sleek, stylish storage solution for the mobile professional! Take files and applications anywhere! The ultra compact, USB-powered dual interface Portable Hard Drive requires no external power supply ¿ just plug it in and go. With EMC RetrospectTM backup and disaster recovery software included, it is a high capacity travel companion that lets you take your important files, photos and music anywhere - a perfect storage solution for the mobile professional. (Note: The image is for reference only.) | | | Features: | |
• Device Type - Portable
• Removable Storage Type - Hard Drive
• Storage Capacity - 250GB
• Storage Interface Type - USB2.0/ FireWire 400
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| 0.0 inches | | Product Width:
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| 0.4 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.7 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 23 reviews |
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12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Iomega Portable Hard DriveMay 14, 2008
By Ben
Fast, small and light - just the features for a portable hard drive. Good for storing video and audio flies and fast enough to play them back directly from the drive. Comes with both USB and Firewire connections, and the cords, plus a power cord in case port does not provide sufficient power. Only one Firewire port so can't daisy-chain.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Smallest Ever! PC/USB users caution.Feb 26, 2008
By Cornwallis Alabaster Cuspidor, III (but you can call me Sprinkles)
"dewde"
This thing is super small and the case is almost identical to the aluminum material of my MacBook Pro. I haven't found a smaller firewire drive. The case does get a bit warm when used for extended periods but that is to be expected because it doesn't have a fan.
I tried it with my Dell Inspiron 8600 (via USB) and it would not work. The drive pulled too much juice from the USB port and tripped the power surge protection every time I plugged it in. My Dell has done this with other devices so it could just be the Dell and not the external drive.
Completely satisfied with this device. I do wish it has the 7200rpm disk in it and a FireWire800 port, however. But you cannot find that combo in portable drives right now. So this was the next best thing.
11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Firewire external HD 250GBJan 16, 2008
By Richard B. Anderson
Using it for my Mac Leopard Time Machine backups. Works smoothly and transparently. Coolest thing about Leopard, for my money.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Great for home external storageJul 28, 2008
By Robert Hogan
So far, I have been very satisfied with the Iomega Portable hard drive Firewire 400/USB 2.0. It is fast, quiet, and cool. My wife and I permanently live in a RV trailer and space is at a premium. We purchased this drive to back up our laptop.
Great unit so far.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Iomega USB-FireWire 250MB External Drive for Mac and PCDec 23, 2008
By jafco
"jafco"
I've had this little drive for about a month. It's nice and compact and quite fast. It comes with a FireWire cable and two USB cables (one is for data transfer, the other is for additional power if the data link isn't powered or is underpowered). I wanted to comment on some things said in the reviews that had been published here at the time I bought it.
First, mine gets warm to the touch (so obviously it's heating to something over 98.6 degrees F) but not dangerously hot. I can pick it up anytime it's running.
Second, it came formatted with a single partition in the FAT32 (PC) partition scheme. It should work out of the box for most PCs. It will not work for a Mac out of the box. You have to repartition it, using Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities) into either APM for PowerPC Macs (G4-G5 cpus) or GUID (GPT) for Intel Macs. You may also choose multiple partitions during this process. I set mine up with three, equally dividing the 232.9 GB of space available to the user. If you are using Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5.x) the partitioning scheme isn't such big deal as you can dynamically adjust the partitioning setup at a later date.
Altogether I'm very pleased with this drive. I'm using it for Time Machine backups, for a boot installation of Leopard 10.4.4 and storage of all the subsequent uninstalled update packages that come from Apple, and for holding chunks of my iTunes library that has grown too big for my current internal HD. This device gives you lots of options.
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