Thread: Iomega prestige

The Iomega Prestige was one of the very few drives in the roundup with such a lowstorage capacity. Although 500 GB isn't very little, it's the lowest that you can find on the market. The drive sports a sturdy aluminium shell with a brushed finish and the meshed front bezel is of plastic. It looks plain vanilla and offers only USB 2.0 connectivity. The rear panel has an on/ off switch and a Kensington security slot for fastening the drive to your desk.

The drive comes with a USB cable and a stand to keep it vertical. You have to use the stand unless you're fine ,With the exterior getting scratched due to the absence of rubber feet.The stand should have been of better quality as it doesn't grip the drive firmly.

One thing we really like about this drive is the provision for replacing/ upgrading the hard drive. You simply have to unfasten two screws on the rear panel and it gently slides out of the casing. The drive installed in this device is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 with 1 SATA interface. The average read and write speeds were 32 MB/s and 30 MB/s respectively as per our tests.

VERDICT: Performance wise the Iomega Prestige is just like another external drive with USB interface.

FOR: Attractive price, aluminum shell, user-replaceable hard drive.

AGAINST: The backup software has to be downloaded.