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My wife Ponzi has started to Scuba Dive recently. In a few weeks, she’ll be going to Baja CA and down into Mexico to swim with sharks. She’ll be shooting video, of course. With the MacBook Air, she won’t have enough space to store all her video. So what should she use for a portable hard drive? She likes things that are small and she can easily carry anywhere with her. I told her that the highest amount of space she’ll get and stay portable would be about 320GB. She said that no, she wanted a TB of space. I asked her if she wanted more space for storage, or more in the physical size of the unit. She wanted a compromise somehow, so I went researching. I found the Iomega 1TB drive, and even secured a coupon for it.

Great capacity with style to match! The Iomega eGo Desktop Hard Drive USB 2.0 provides a simple and stylish solution for all your storage needs. Ideal for adding capacity, this plug and play drive is available in 1TB capacity in: Ruby Red. With EMC Retrospect HD (PC) included (via download) for easy file backup, it’s the easiest way to save photos, music, videos and more!

It is kind of heavy, and of course you have to carry the AC adapter and the USB cable with you. So, I wouldn’t really consider this portable so much. It’s more for a desktop, and it does hold up to a Terrabyte of data. I have a feeling that once Ponzi realizes this thing weighs nearly as much as the MacBook Air itself, she’ll want to send this back and buy a smaller drive.

It’s not very loud, and it seems to be built quite well as far as being sturdy. If you’re looking for affordable and excellent desktop storage, this would be it.

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