Iomega Sets the Market Standard for Portable Hard Drives – First to Offer New SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Models at USB 2.0 Prices!Award-Winning Premium eGo Portable Hard Drive Line – First to Feature All USB 3.0 Models with Hardware Encryption – And Industry-Leading Ruggedness, Too…..
Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and a leading innovator in digital protection solutions for consumers and small and medium businesses, is excited to announce that it is moving to the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface for all Iomega USB 2.0 portable hard drives, beginning with the award-winning line of Iomega® eGo™ Portable Hard Drives. The new all-USB 3.0 eGo Portable Hard Drives will feature hardware encryption and super toughness, too, thanks to a drop spec twice the industry average – all at USB 2.0 product prices. This market-leading move continues Iomega’s tradition of technology leadership.
As a market leader in external hard drive solutions, Iomega is proud to be the first to move towards an all USB 3.0 portable hard drive lineup – and at no extra price premium to our customers,” said Jonathan Huberman, president of Iomega Corporation and the Consumer and Small Business Products Division of EMC. “With a super fast USB 3.0 interface delivering speeds of up to 10 times that of USB 2.0, super tough with a 7-foot drop spec that’s twice the industry average and super secure with AES 256 hardware encryption, Iomega’s eGo Portable Hard Drives will be the premium must-have portable storage product. Factor in our bundled software Protection Suite with popular titles such as Iomega’s QuikProtect, v.Clone and Trend Micro’s Internet Security, and that makes Iomega’s USB 3.0 eGo Portable Hard Drives an exceptional premium solution at the same price as most entry level basic USB 2.0 products.
Iomega plans to move all eGo Portable Hard Drives in 500GB and 1TB capacities to the new USB 3.0 interface by early October. Totally compatible will all USB 2.0 computers, the new USB 3.0 eGo Portable Hard Drives will include Iomega’s industry-leading Drop Guard™ Xtreme, which provides added protection from drops of nearly seven feet or twice the industry average.
Perfect for slipping into a laptop bag or pocket, all of Iomega’s 2.5-inch portable hard drives are host powered, requiring no external power supply beyond the power provided through the USB bus on a personal computer, laptop or netbook. Iomega’s new USB 3.0 portable hard drives are completely backward compatible with personal computers and other devices that only have USB 2.0 ports. Iomega offers USB 3.0 adapter cards (sold separately) to insert into USB 2.0 laptop and desktop computers so users can experience native USB 3.0 transfer speeds of up to 5 gigabits per second.
Iomega prides itself on providing total solutions, which is why all of the new Iomega USB 3.0 eGo Portable Hard Drives come complete out of the box with 256-bit hardware encryption built-in (PC only), as well as the cables required to enjoy your drive right away, whether your desktop or laptop has USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 ports. The Prestige family of portable hard drives will also feature 256-bit hardware encryption built-in (PC only) with the transition to USB 3.0 models in the first quarter of 2011.
The Iomega Protection Suite includes:
* v.Clone™ software, an Iomega exclusive, captures a complete virtual image of your PC – including the operating system, all applications, your settings, and all your files to your Iomega hard drive. Access the cloned copy and use it seamlessly on another computer, just as if you’re working from your own PC. When you reconnect, automatically sync your data to your primary PC, so that files are always up to date.
* A complementary 12 month subscription to Trend Micro™ Internet Security for the PC, or Trend Micro™ Smart Surfing software for Mac.
* Iomega QuikProtect: backup software for simple scheduled file-level backup of data to hard drives and network-attached storage devices (for Windows and Mac desktops and notebooks).
* Roxio® Retrospect® Express software: backup all of your data plus applications and settings (for Windows and Mac desktops and notebooks).
* MozyHome™ Online Backup service: Convenient online backup service with 2GB of online capacity for free (unlimited online storage for $4.95/month). MozyHome Online service allows Windows and Mac users to restore their most important data from any computer with internet access, at any location in the world.
Not only are Iomega’s award-winning eGo Portable Hard Drives super fast and super rugged, they’re head-turners, too. Sporting a sleek, smaller enclosure than the previous generation of eGo portable hard drives, eGo Portable Hard Drives are among the smallest 2.5-inch HDD portable hard drives in the market today. Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drives are available in a variety of colors that include Ruby Red, Midnight Blue and Silver.
Source :engadget.com
is it available Virtual CD partition in Iomega ego portable drive
These cannot be used on an SBS2011 server for Windows Server Backup. The backups fail, because of the CD partition that exists on them. And of course there is no way to remove that partition. And if you could it would void your warranty.
There is actually a way to remove the masked partition. however, as these drives as encrypted on a hardware level they are completely unusable for advance / technicians (The problem is that to make any serious changes to the disk you have to have the iomega Encryption open). The drive serves its purpose well for a end user who just wants there pictures and mobile videos secure
If you need to remove the virtual CD partition iOmega provide you with a solution: https://iomega-eu-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/26020
There is no mention of removing the virtual CD partition voiding your warranty.
Also for a USB 3.0 Drive this is so damn slow. My Toshiba HDDR250 seems to be faster, in start up and the transferring of files.
might be a solution, but iomega prestige is not seen by Iomega Encryption Utility version 3.
Not even by version 1.3 that ships on the disk.
I should have brought it back to the shop while I could get a refund!!!
The CD partition can be removed by the setup program on the CD partition,
but still this drive makes problems.
The program runs for many minutes scanning your hardrive (C:) before the program gives you any option to choose from. It installs itself on the computer and you can (have to) use it from there to change options and settings.
My computer cannot be booted again with this drive. It hangs (before Windows starts) till you unplug or switch off the drive -annoying to every user.
I found no manual, where you can look up these things.
The drive cannot be used for other operating systems.
I say, it’s the hardware encryption, that does not allow access to the drive without the encryption program running.
Does not work for dish network receivers.
Oct11,2011 Iomega Prestige Desktop harddrive, Iomega Encryption 1.03
The software (Iomega Protection Suite) for download is usable for 1 year, it says.