Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Portable Storage: IOGEAR's 20 GB COMBO 1.8" ION Drive
Posted by Tim Adams in "HARDWARE" @ 02:30 PM
Size Does Matter
Figure 1: The box, waiting for me to extract its hidden treasure.
The IOGEAR Combo Ion is not much more than a laptop drive with a custom casing. Because of this choice in drive size, the Ion is really quite small (see above for the actual specs).
Figure 2: The ION in comparison with a five dollar bill.
Figure 3: Side shot of the drive.
Figure 4: The back of the drive with clip.
As a heavy mobile user, I use my laptop at work, home, and on the road. Sadly, my laptop doesn't even have a floppy drive, let alone a CD or DVD burner (just a DVD drive). So what to do about backups? The ION fits very nicely into my laptop bag, and since you can power the unit via the included USB/PS2 cable, there's no need to carry a wall-wart around too. Using the ION as a backup drive also allows me to clear up some needed space on my laptop drive by transferring my mass quantities of Acid Pro loops to this external drive. Of course, there is a loss of speed (as my laptop is only USB 1.1 compatible), but we'll cover that later in the review.
- Discuss this story [1 reply]
- Permalink
