Loud drive, lousy performance

After much research, I bought two of these for backup externally attractive external hard drives IOMEGA MiniMax Desktop HDD 500GB 3.5 inch USB2.0 + Solution CD + Netzt, even in the simple version with USB 2.0, even with zzusätzlichem FireWire port to To create a bootable backup.

The first disappointment came when unpacking the first supplied FireWire drive: what looks like Apple mainly on the small pictures on the web, makes the stock a much windier impression. Unlike the Mac Mini case you are looking for real aluminum on the MiniMax vain, it is rather an aluminum-colored plastic frame with a pretty rickety white cover. When commissioning initially fell on the loud scraping of the hard disk. After about 20 minutes of operation the fan jumped on and filled the air with rich hum.

Since I am not particularly sensitive to noise, I found myself with the noise level from 'finally I felt less by the whisper-quiet operation, as to provide a reliable storage of my data, and I left me happy to Iomega as reputable manufacturer. In addition, the Apple-compatible design let integrated well on my desk.

When then came the USB drive, I was a little shocked that they caused more noise. Then I realized that you can not stack the plates, because the heat generated is too strong. And I do not mean that the plates are hot, but they have deformed the linoleum of my desk.

So I now had a number of devices with congruent base that would actually have been ideal for stacking, standing side by side instead of one above the other. With Cinema Display, Mac Mini, two Iomega MiniMax and the laptop, it gradually became close on the desk. But the solution to the problem was not long in coming: after about 2 months gave the FireWire drive this strange noise of himself: "krrrr-Plock; krrrrr-Plock; krrrr-Plock '' Not so nice course they had.. no longer mount. With DiskWarrior, I managed to save the data to push on the USB disk and partition the FireWire disk. But a week later the unfortunate sound was back, this time it was massive data loss. boat zerschossen Sector, a good piece went back to the dealer who has since responded to any of my e-mails.

So I rushed to the store and bought myself for not even 2/3 of the Minimax-price a 750GB disk from LaCie that since space-saving, quiet and reliable with two differently formatted partitions does its work on Mac and a PC.

Oh yes, the second MiniMax I have. It is the reason that I am writing this review. I have used them to mirror my backups from the LaCie drive. That I would have to save, however, because since last week makes only "krrrr-Plock; krrrrr-Plock; krrrr-Plock ''