Hard Drives - Product Reviews

C. J. C - (August 01, 2004) This seems to be another high quality product typical of Iomega! It was easy set up and it auto-configures with WinXP.It's quiet and very fast. It has little inset rubber legs so it sits well on top of a floor PC. And it looks sleek with a blue power light that matches my Sony. The only thing that's a pain is that it doesn't turn off automaticallly at shutdown. But maybe Iomega will come out with a driver for it that does that.

jayhall0315 - (January 08, 2006) (Jan 6th, 2008) Every few months one of the five or so large drive manufacturers (Western Digital, Maxtor, Hitachi, etc) comes out with a new hard drive claiming revolutionary advancements. This crap is almost never true, but with the 150 GB Raptor we finally have a drive that trys to live up to some of its billing. If you are an enthusiast, power user, rich or just plain hate the slow boot times of Windows, then these Raptors are your ticket. The model I am reviewing here is the Raptor X and includes a clear window in the top plate. There is another version of the 150 GB Raptor as well, with the primary difference being that it does not have the window and is therefore quieter. Western Di

jhuang711 - (August 11, 2004) Maxtor does it again with its DiamondMax line. This one of the few products that has the large 300GB capacity and the faster SATA interface. I use this drive primarily for DVD Authoring and Burning and it works great!

flbert - (11/22/2009) The Mini USB connector feels loose and keeps disconnecting. The USB cable is too short and is a proprietary technology. It's had to find a longer one. I recommend for the ones that bought this driver to careful plug the cable and don't move the drive during data transfer. Moreover, the software has poor resources. So, I'm frustrated with this product and I don't recommend it.

krwalker - (11/19/2009) Don't forget to verify your power supply has an available SATA power connector, or else get an adapter to plug into an IDE power connector. Currently does not support TRIM (keeps the drive high performing long-term) because Intel had trouble with their firmware update. Check news because in time Intel will figure this out. For Windows, TRIM will work only with Windows 7. When installing Windows, configure BIOS to use AHCI (instead of IDE), and do not use a disk defragment utility on it.

dkohrn - (11/11/2009) I've had 6 out of 8 drives fail in less than 2 years. The first failure was after 1 month. Warranty service is spotty. Better to not expect good service than to be disappointed when you don't get it.