Dr Gadget - Gadget Shop - Iomega MiniMax Desktop Hard Drive - Hard drive - 500 GB - external - FireWire / Hi-Speed USB - 7200 rpm - buffer: 2 MB

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Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Electronics CPU Speed: 0 CPU Type: Intel Celeron EAN: 4019976336712 Hard Disk Size: 500 Is Fragile: 0 Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers. Model: 33671 Processor Count: 1 System Memory Size: 0 System Memory Type: DRAM
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great item - but beware of formatting! Comment: I brought the hard drive from amazon, was very please with the price - especially compared to what it costs in the Apple online store. It looks great underneath my mini mac, and is really fast and quiet. One word of warning tho, I had recently switched to mac and needed this hard drive to collect my extensive music and photo files from my old pc so they could be used on my new mac. This drive comes pre formatted for use with mac only. Now this isn't a problem if you are buying just to used with mac. Managed to find a solution on Iomegas website on how to format to fat32 for use with pc and mac, but this process took hours! So be warned!. Once all that was sorted that has turned out to be a great buy. Customer Rating: Summary: Good, but limited Comment: I bought this to replace my appallingly unreliable Freecom ToughDrive Pro, which I had been using for back-ups. I use an iMac and what attracted me to the MiniMax were the firewire connection and the integrated USB hub. I thought this would be an opportunity to clear some clutter from my desk. The USB connections, however, can only be used if the drive is connected to your computer via USB, not firewire. Maybe I'm stupid and should have reckoned on this, but the point is that it has a USB hub in limited circumstances only. If you want to use firewire, which is significantly faster than USB, you will still need a separate hub of some kind (the three ports on my iMac are used by the mouse, keyboard, and printer -- needing to use a memory stick frequently, that leaves me one short without a hub). The drive is a bit too noisy, but not enough to worry me. The 'i' that flickers when the drive is working is no more annoying than masses of other external drives that have some similar thing. Even though is it expressly designed for the Mac Mini, it looks quite fine next to my white iMac. Final note: if you do not care about firewire or your computer has no firewire ports, you might be able to find a 500 gig USB-only drive for less. Customer Rating: Summary: It does what it says on the tin Comment: If you are looking for a no nonsense disk for your mac, then look no further. I have this drive attached to my apple extreme wireless router in my front room. This disk is silent and is a good all-round performer. I have ordered another disk to daisy chain via the firewire interfaces. Customer Rating: Summary: Easy and quiet Comment: Just bought one from the Apple Store in Manchester, could have got it cheaper here ;-( However, it is very quiet indeed so I can't agree with one of my fellow reviewers here. Obviously if you have a Mac everything it pretty much plug and play, or rather back up. And if you have a Mac Mini it's a neat unobtrusive piece of kit for your desktop. It comes with Retrospect Express which is all well and good but I'd recommend using Backup which is the free app that comes with OSX. It's very simple to use and Retrospect is more complicated than it need be. The drive comes with all the leads and plugs you'd expect including a very neat short length firewire cable for those who do intend to put the drive under their Mac Mini. I'd say that the only annoying this so far is the flickering "I" symbol on the front but if you're aiming to put it out of sight that's not going to be an issue is it? Customer Rating: Summary: Good for Mac user, but could be better Comment: Works straight from the box, only complaint is that it is slightly noisy compared with the mac mini it is paired with, so I don't leave it on overnight. Also the bright white "I" light that flashes when disc is active is very annoying. Extra Firewire/USB very useful as the mini is a bit compromised on that front. More Reviews
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