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Iomega releases eGo portable drive for Mac (Cnet – Crave )

Iomega’s new eGo portable hard drive is designed for Mac mobile users.

(Credit: Iomega)

If the LaCie Little Big Disk SSD is just too expensive for you (and it has to
be), here’s an alternative.

Iomega announced today a new portable hard drive for Mac, the eGo Mac Edition
Portable Hard Drive, that offers up to 1TB of storage in a compact and drop-
resistant design. The new drive joins the company’s existing lineup of Mac-
oriented storage products, such as the Mac Companion Hard Drive that came out
earlier this year.

Iomega says the new drive offers 256-bit hardware encryption and supports both
USB 2.0 and FireWire. It doesn’t offer USB 3.0, but this is normal as Apple
doesn’t seem like to support this standard anytime soon. The new drive is bus-
powered and comes with three cables for USB 2.0, FireWire 800, and FireWire
400 connections.

The Iomega eGo Mac Edition Portable Hard Drive comes with a three-year
warranty and is available now in 500GB and 1TB capacities, costing $179.99 and
$229.99, respectively, making them much more affordable than LaCie’s
Thunderbolt drive.

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