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ioSafe SoloPRO SJ2000GB1YR 2 TB External Hard Drive SJ2000GB1YR Hard Drives - External
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Excellent Product! Excellent Customer Service! . After I recently lost the last 5 to 7 years of my life's data (financials, tax info, travel pics, etc.) to an unfortunate laptop HD crash, I decided it might be time to think about having a back up of everything in a remote location that I knew was solid, safe and most of all, protected.
After looking around the internet and reading a few reviews I came across the ioSafe brand and started doing some cross reference checking. I never like to take one sites' word on anything, who knows who is paying the bills, so I always try to read from multiple sources before I buy. The ioSafe brand has a few online reviews, and the biggest knock against them seems to be price. I am not sure about you but for me to know that I have a quality unit in the first place is worth it in the long run. Quality hurts the pocket book once, where quantity hurts again and again.
Having sedated my OCD like need to research I pulled the trigger and ordered up the 2TB USB 3.0 HD with the intent of backing up everything in our house (4 laptops - 2 personal and 2 work) and build a one source video library.
The ioSafe 2TB showed up on the doorstep in a big box proclaiming exactly what it was on the outside. :-( I would prefer to see it shipped in a plain jane box, but luckily I don't live in a bad area and no one was the wiser as to my new purchase. I grabbed it greedily off the porch and was surprised at two things. 1) it was smaller than I expected and seemed rather dense. 15 something pounds is 15 something pounds, until you can hold it all in one hand, then it seems heavier for some reason. 2) The exterior corner of the box was crushed and I just knew this was going to be a problem.
Went inside and opened the box to find that the drive was perfectly suspended in a high density foam chamber away from all sides and corners of the box, so while the packaging was crushed, the unit was untouched and in perfect condition. Yay!
The instructions are super easy to follow and since my laptop is running Win 7, I literally just had to plug the unit in, plug in the USB 3.0 cable, click okay/accept a couple of times and it self installed on my laptop in about 2-3 minutes. Bonus!! No extra hassles, no software downloads, no running three discs to pre-load software that you have to manipulate, it did it all itself. (Skynet? What??)
Having successfully installed the drive I was now ready to do some transfering of files to free up some space and create a back up of my new laptop drive.
The USB 3.0 is very fast transferring files and the HD runs with a very soft whirl of the cool fan. Unless the room is totally crypt silent, you can't even tell that it's running. No noisy spinning drives, no constant hum or whir of a unit you are unsure of whether it is about to give up the ghost soon or not, this unit is just a solid piece of hardware that will treat you right.
I have been running the unit for about 10 days now, moving files up and down to and from it the unit as our video library is taking shape and there have been no problems with my loading a movie onto the HD and my wife plugging in her completely different laptop and uploading it for viewing. No proprietary issues, no problems even though two laptops run other than Win 7 software (my work laptop runs XP and I don't know about her work laptop). Everything has performed as advertised (though I haven't tested the underwater or in a fire options and hope to never have too). LOL
After a few days of owning the unit I got an e-mail from the president of the company. While it would be easy in this day and age to have a boiler plate, blah, blah, blah e-mail automatically generated saying "Thanks for buying" hit your inbox, this one actually had some research done before hitting send. There were questions about my installation, questions about my application, questions about if there was something that I would like to see in a future or upgraded model, but there was also information saying 'I noticed you purchased from Amazon, how did you hear of us and did you choose Amazon because?" sorts of things. It made me feel that while this is a company, they are still interested in their customer's needs and are customer service oriented.
When I responded with a couple of ideas and a couple of questions, not only did the President of the company e-mail me back with answers, for the ones he did not have (concerning using it as a video server through my wireless network and/or outputing directly to my TV, he copied one of the tech savvy customer service folks who addressed my questions with helpful and detailed answers the same day!! That is excellent customer service in this day and age in my eyes, so I have no problems writing a positive review of both the product and the company.
Yes. This product is a bit more expensive than other's out there, but from construction, to operation, to performance and company customer service, I would have no problem purchasing another one should I ever fill up 2TB (1.82TB of usuable space) with all our electronic media.
Highly recommended if you are in the market for a serious, hardcore back up for all your digital needs.
Excellent Product! Excellent Customer Service! . After I recently lost the last 5 to 7 years of my life's data (financials, tax info, travel pics, etc.) to an unfortunate laptop HD crash, I decided it might be time to think about having a back up of everything in a remote location that I knew was solid, safe and most of all, protected.
After looking around the internet and reading a few reviews I came across the ioSafe brand and started doing some cross reference checking. I never like to take one sites' word on anything, who knows who is paying the bills, so I always try to read from multiple sources before I buy. The ioSafe brand has a few online reviews, and the biggest knock against them seems to be price. I am not sure about you but for me to know that I have a quality unit in the first place is worth it in the long run. Quality hurts the pocket book once, where quantity hurts again and again.
Having sedated my OCD like need to research I pulled the trigger and ordered up the 2TB USB 3.0 HD with the intent of backing up everything in our house (4 laptops - 2 personal and 2 work) and build a one source video library.
The ioSafe 2TB showed up on the doorstep in a big box proclaiming exactly what it was on the outside. :-( I would prefer to see it shipped in a plain jane box, but luckily I don't live in a bad area and no one was the wiser as to my new purchase. I grabbed it greedily off the porch and was surprised at two things. 1) it was smaller than I expected and seemed rather dense. 15 something pounds is 15 something pounds, until you can hold it all in one hand, then it seems heavier for some reason. 2) The exterior corner of the box was crushed and I just knew this was going to be a problem.
Went inside and opened the box to find that the drive was perfectly suspended in a high density foam chamber away from all sides and corners of the box, so while the packaging was crushed, the unit was untouched and in perfect condition. Yay!
The instructions are super easy to follow and since my laptop is running Win 7, I literally just had to plug the unit in, plug in the USB 3.0 cable, click okay/accept a couple of times and it self installed on my laptop in about 2-3 minutes. Bonus!! No extra hassles, no software downloads, no running three discs to pre-load software that you have to manipulate, it did it all itself. (Skynet? What??)
Having successfully installed the drive I was now ready to do some transfering of files to free up some space and create a back up of my new laptop drive.
The USB 3.0 is very fast transferring files and the HD runs with a very soft whirl of the cool fan. Unless the room is totally crypt silent, you can't even tell that it's running. No noisy spinning drives, no constant hum or whir of a unit you are unsure of whether it is about to give up the ghost soon or not, this unit is just a solid piece of hardware that will treat you right.
I have been running the unit for about 10 days now, moving files up and down to and from it the unit as our video library is taking shape and there have been no problems with my loading a movie onto the HD and my wife plugging in her completely different laptop and uploading it for viewing. No proprietary issues, no problems even though two laptops run other than Win 7 software (my work laptop runs XP and I don't know about her work laptop). Everything has performed as advertised (though I haven't tested the underwater or in a fire options and hope to never have too). LOL
After a few days of owning the unit I got an e-mail from the president of the company. While it would be easy in this day and age to have a boiler plate, blah, blah, blah e-mail automatically generated saying "Thanks for buying" hit your inbox, this one actually had some research done before hitting send. There were questions about my installation, questions about my application, questions about if there was something that I would like to see in a future or upgraded model, but there was also information saying 'I noticed you purchased from Amazon, how did you hear of us and did you choose Amazon because?" sorts of things. It made me feel that while this is a company, they are still interested in their customer's needs and are customer service oriented.
When I responded with a couple of ideas and a couple of questions, not only did the President of the company e-mail me back with answers, for the ones he did not have (concerning using it as a video server through my wireless network and/or outputing directly to my TV, he copied one of the tech savvy customer service folks who addressed my questions with helpful and detailed answers the same day!! That is excellent customer service in this day and age in my eyes, so I have no problems writing a positive review of both the product and the company.
Yes. This product is a bit more expensive than other's out there, but from construction, to operation, to performance and company customer service, I would have no problem purchasing another one should I ever fill up 2TB (1.82TB of usuable space) with all our electronic media.
Highly recommended if you are in the market for a serious, hardcore back up for all your digital needs.
ioSafe SoloPRO 2 TB USB 3.0 Fireproof and Waterproof External Hard Drive with 1 Year Data Recovery Service - Black (SJ2000GB1YR) Reviews
Quiet and works with Linux . Works on both my Linux and Mac PCs no problem. Seems very well built, solid. Doesn't make much noise on the desktop. Drive access speed seems to be relatively quick.
Quiet and works with Linux . Works on both my Linux and Mac PCs no problem. Seems very well built, solid. Doesn't make much noise on the desktop. Drive access speed seems to be relatively quick.
ioSafe SoloPRO 2 TB USB 3.0 Fireproof and Waterproof External Hard Drive with 1 Year Data Recovery Service - Black (SJ2000GB1YR) Opinions
Not tested by fire but installs and functions just like any other external hard drive . Packaged and delivered in mint condition. Installed as easily as any other typical external hard drive. Registration was painless and quick. Installed drive unit, registered online, and setup server backup in less than fifteen minutes. As a small business owner responsible for very sensitive client data, the ioSafe Fireproof and Waterproof External Hard Drive is a simple and money-saving solution for disaster recovery without having to worry about access, security, and costs of a cloud solution.I liked the drive so much that I intend to purchase a second drive for backing up my home data (pictures, videos, etc...)!
Not tested by fire but installs and functions just like any other external hard drive . Packaged and delivered in mint condition. Installed as easily as any other typical external hard drive. Registration was painless and quick. Installed drive unit, registered online, and setup server backup in less than fifteen minutes. As a small business owner responsible for very sensitive client data, the ioSafe Fireproof and Waterproof External Hard Drive is a simple and money-saving solution for disaster recovery without having to worry about access, security, and costs of a cloud solution.I liked the drive so much that I intend to purchase a second drive for backing up my home data (pictures, videos, etc...)!
Fast and reliable . I'm actually using this connected to a Linux (CentOS 6) server via USB 3 and it's been fast and definitely the best bang-for-the-buck as far as mass protected storage. With a large amount of data using cloud services isn't as feasible as a locally-attached drive that can quickly and safely store large amounts of data.
I've been thrilled with this so far and would recommend them.
My only wish was that these came in a dual-drive (RAID) and/or NAS options so it could be a standalone device.
I've been thrilled with this so far and would recommend them.
My only wish was that these came in a dual-drive (RAID) and/or NAS options so it could be a standalone device.
Feature ioSafe SoloPRO 2 TB USB 3.0 Fireproof and Waterproof External Hard Drive with 1 Year Data Recovery Service - Black (SJ2000GB1YR)
- Fireproof - Protects data from loss up to 1550°F for 1/2 hour per ASTM E119
- Waterproof , Protects data from loss up to 10ft for 72 hours
- Microsoft Server, Linux, Mac and PC Compatible (eSATA model only)
- Data Recovery Service - Up to $2500 for forensic recovery + Advanced Replacement
- USB 3.0 or eSATA/USB 2.0 Connectivity
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Product Details
EAN : 0852090001845UPC : 852090001845
MPN : SJ2000GB1YR
Brand : ioSafe
Weight : 18 pounds
Height : 9 inches
Length : 18 inches
Width : 11 inches
Binding : Personal Computers
Manufacturer : ioSafe
Model : SJ2000GB1YR
Publisher : ioSafe
SKU : 852090001845
Studio : ioSafe
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