For a few years I used this drive to back up my Toshiba Qosmio G32 running XP. It has worked well up to now but XP is soon to be unsupported. So I now have an Acer laptop with Win 7. BUT the Iomega drive has started to disconnect between data transfers. The reason I have found out is that the female mini-USB socket on the drive has gotten worn and loose so that the male plug on my USB cable simply falls out. This is a shoddy design fault - I suppose 'Made in China' might have something to do with it. BTW the same cable works OK with my DVD player. For the sake of a duff connection Iomega want me to buy another drive - no chance of that - there's been too many bad reviews  Read the complete review

This is not so much a review as a cutionary tale! I received this as a gift for Christmas 2011. I had asked for an extrenal hard drive as I was totally running out of memory on my ancient laptop, but I'm not yet ready to part with it. I asked for Toshiba (as I have always found their hardware to be very reliable) and for something in silver or chrome. However, John Lewis didn't have anything similar in stock, so I ended up with this Iomega model. Aesthetically, I wasn't disappointed. It is a dark gun metal colour, rather than the silver I had hoped for, but it has a very nice soft satin finish, is a good size and nicely ...  Read the complete review

Being a PhD student, in the dying throes of writing up (I am dying (metaphorically), not the thesis, although it's been a close run thing...), I have developed a well-known condition, known to the medical community as 'data paranoia'. I used to back up my thesis (when it, and I, were both young and fresh) to a tiny 2GB USB flash drive. I'd then occasionally back up to cds, and/or to my webmail account. From this you will gather that I am no computer whizz. This review is for non-specialists, and so will not be commenting on things with lots of acronyms that I don't understand, apologies to tech-heads. So, once the word-count hit 50 000, I ...  Read the complete review