Cheap Iomega 250GB External Network Hard Drive (Electronics) Price

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Customer Reviews of Iomega 250GB External Network Hard Drive

pretty nice for home computing
Installation and configuration are very easy. It has native support for Windows and Linux, very rare in similar products of the price range. The 'foldershare' server is one of the most worthy feature. Do NOT update your firmware, because then you will lose it due to contract reasons. MS bought the company supplies foldershare service. I think the service will stay, and I am willing to pay if they start charging. <
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>The fan is loud (the only thing from 5 stars). Definitely not something you want to be in the same room when you work. For me it's okay since it stays with the router, etc. in another room. I bought one at $120 last week and the second at $70 this week (on sale), all from CompUSA. <
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>Edit on 7/17/2006: 1) The fan is really loud, you just can't underestimate how loud it is; 2) unstable, unreliable, and inconsistent connection. When two of my PCs accessing one file the same time, both lost connection. This is the worst among three network storage I personally use at home. The best is the NetDisk (not as many features, but stable, reliable and consistent). <
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>If I could lower the stars to 1, I would have.

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High noise level and slow writes
I bought this drive today from Fry's for around $250 + tax. I had a 60GB portable iomega drive that I have been happy with and kind of was the reason I decided to buy this one. <
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>After a few hours now I am pretty sure that I will return it tomorrow. The drive is very slow when writing. I never had a network drive before but I know the speed just doesn't make sense for a backup device. The other thing is the noise level. I don't know how companies get away with not putting the noise level on the box. I wish this was mandatory. Also the size of cache buffer is no where to be found. <
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>Installing the drive was very easy and I didn't even installed the software that came with it. <
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So far so good
The setup was trivial. I have a 150GB Iomega drive also which has performed well without problems. I gave it 5 stars but I would give it 4.5 stars (if i could) for some minor issues: <
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>a) it is a little noisy, although I keep it in another room so it's not too bothersome for me. <
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>b) the 250GB drive does not always detect the first time (the 150GB drive always does). sometimes I have to go thru the detection process twice. <
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>so far though i've had no major problems with it.