Iomega MiniMax Hard Drive, FireWire 400/USB 2.0, 750GB - 33956

by Iomega

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 6.5 x 1.6 inches ; 2.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000W8SSNG
• Item model number: 33956
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 21, 2007

Product Description

Add 750GB of capacity to your Apple Mac mini with the Iomega MiniMax desktop hard drive. Its compact, easy stack design provides maximum storage to manage, organize and protect your digital photos, music and movies in stylish simplicity save up to 2,000,000 photos, 9,250 hours of music, or 750 hours of video. Iomegas new MiniMax hard drive comes complete with Dantz Retrospect Express (Mac) and Iomega Automatic Backup Pro (PC) software for hassle-free backup and disaster recovery to ensure your digital content is always safe and secure. The drive is also expandable with a three-port FireWire and three-port USB 2.0 integrated hub to help you go with the flow Plus it includes an interactive cooling system with a thermal probe that automatically regulates fan speed very smart.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard Drive at fire speed is tops, March 23, 2010

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This review is from: Iomega MiniMax Hard Drive, FireWire 400/USB 2.0, 750GB - 33956 (Personal Computers)

Wow. I have used many different hard drives some good some irritating. WD stay away too noisy, slow and cannot figure out when to stop spinning and bouncing around (read head i suppose), Maxtor solid drive but moderate transfer speed. The Iomega MiniMax is blinding fast.
I have an older Mac with 75 gb of data and programs and i just dragged the entire contents to the Minimax and it copied it faster than i have ever seen.
This would have taken days with standard drives. Fire wire is king. Very compact, quiet operation and powerfully functional. Makes a great back up system. Forget Ghost unless your garding top secret data and dont mind hiring IT tech to see it again. Would buy again for other PC's. At this point Going back to usb would be like moving from dsl to dial up. Good solid drive, quiet and very fast. Do you hear it running? Neither do I.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fast, stackable & added firewire ports, February 19, 2009

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Carlton Ward "redjelly39" (Portland, Or United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Iomega MiniMax Hard Drive, FireWire 400/USB 2.0, 750GB - 33956 (Personal Computers)

I have a 500GB & (2) 750GB of these Iomega MiniMax drives and they are quiet, fast and for over a year now, no problems at all. They are also very nice looking. Being stackable with additional firewire & USB ports, I have my firewire CF card reader plugged into one of the drives and can download an 4GB card in less than 5 minutes. I use a 24" IMAC w/Leopard and use mostly for photography.

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Carlton

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Included cable won't connect to current Mac minis, September 4, 2009

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Dr. Stuart Cheshire (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Iomega MiniMax Hard Drive, FireWire 400/USB 2.0, 750GB - 33956 (Personal Computers)

I like the MiniMax because it stacks neatly under a Mac mini, but since March 2009 Mac minis have had Firewire 800. Not only is the MiniMax still Firewire 400, which is half the speed, it does not even ship with the right cable (FW400-to-FW800) to connect to a current Mac mini. If you have an old Firewire 400 Mac mini then this is a great drive, otherwise I suggest waiting until Iomega updates the product line to Firewire 800.

Here's the official Iomega Technical Support response: "The answer to your question is no, the MiniMax does not and will not be packaged with a 400 to 800 Firewire cable. You will need to contact Apple to obtain the cable that you are looking for. -- Hal, Iomega Technical Support"