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Review: 20 minutes with Iomega's eGo portable drive
Review: 20 minutes with Iomega's eGo portable drive
Given that one external 2.5" drive is much like any other, Iomega's latest batch presents a good choice: theirs are designed to survive a drop onto hard surfaces. The compromise is that they're a little larger than the competition -- compare, for example, to Seagate, whose recent models ...
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