Iomega Jumps Into the External Hard Drive Game

If you’ve followed computer peripherals for a while – and we’re talking years here – you probably think of the ill-fated Jaz and Zip drives when you think of Iomega. While those backup devices, with their removable discs, were popular for a time, they were pretty much buried under the onslaught of cheap hard drives and flash media. So where’s Iomega now? Right with the rest of the smart storage companies: putting out external hard drives.

Yep, just one look at the Iomega 33942 250GB eGo Portable Hard Drive lets you know that the company is still alive and well. Its new eGo is a great portable hard drive, nice and tiny and able to be tossed in a laptop back or purse without weighing you down. It’s got a trademark Iomega three-letter name and fun styling to it without any of the inefficient removable-disc based storage that you might remember them for. So why not give them another chance? They learned their lessons.