Iomega drive on last legs
A while ago I went out and bought a 1TB Iomega drive. I did the Apple-fan special — that is — look and see what drives are available in the Apple Store (and thus, guaranteed and approved to work with my array of Macs) then I hunted for it online. Bought it. Job done.
I’ve been connecting it to my machines via Firewire and it’s been rocking for about a year and a half. I even took it to San Francisco with me although it ended up putting me way over the luggage limit. But I had my data with me.
Carrying my data around like that is really annoying. It should be in the cloud. But we’re talking almost 600gb of stuff which takes a little while to upload.
About two months ago the Iomega ‘UltraMax’ started to make funny noises. Uh oh.
“I’ll just get my data off it,” I thought, before finding that it was screwed. Completely screwed.
So having used it as a backup for a lot of my data, I begun looking around for hard disk recovering services in the area.
Until this afternoon. I plugged it in — this time via USB 2.0 — and had a look.
It’s still making horrible noises now and again, BUT I am able to access it. So I’m taking as much as possible off it right now. Phew. I’ve got the data back. Time to stick it in the cloud.
I’ve never bought another Iomega product since the nightmare that was zip drives, 12 years ago. We had so many of them, had so many crashes, and lost *so* much data (inluding most of the websites I worked on during my first couple of years online) that I will never, ever, ever trust that company again.