Review on Iomega 33983 eGo Rugged Portable Hard Drive - Jet Black (160GB, USB 2.0) by Reggie Hobbs

. But don't rely on the "powered by USB" feature - although it has a 2-wire USB cable that lets you draw power from 2 USB ports at the same time, it's not 100% happy with just USB. It will certainly hang long enough to make a backup, but if you leave it plugged in, after a few hours it will start whining about a "delayed write error" as the system periodically writes something in the system volume information marked on the hard drive. .Likewise. The URL that came with the device for downloading the backup software is out of date - there are other, newer softwares, but it's pretty brittle - it stops working once it hits a system file in Windows, for example - and it wants in the Remain in the background by backing up everything you keep changing, ultimately leading to the aforementioned "Lazy Write Failure". works fine but use your own backup software and don't leave it running 24/7 unless you have a handy external 5V power supply handy (there's a socket for such something that suggests that even Iomega doesn't trust USB power completely either).