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Iomega Media Xporter

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The Bottom Line

Buy a cheaper USB hard drive and download free media-conversion software if you really need the extra storage.

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Pros & Cons

    • Includes media converter software.
    • Pricey.
    • Uses two USB ports.

Iomega Media Xporter Specs

Disk Cache Size : 8 MB
Ports: USB 2.0
Storage Capacity (as Tested): 160 GB
System Type: Desktop
Type: Internal

The Iomega Media Xporter ($90.20 direct) markets itself as a solution to expand the storage of your music, movies, and photos on your Xbox 360 or PS3. The 160GB, 2.5-inch external USB 2.0 drive is FAT32-formatted to work best with either system, but that imposes the 4GB file-size limit that might get in the way if you have very large HD video files. It runs off USB power, but requires plugging into two USB ports to do so. If you use plug-in controllers of any type, this can be an issue. All that separates this drive from similar devices that are $40 cheaper is the included Prism Media Converter MX software. It gets the job done, but it's not as intuitive or as fast as I'd like. The Media Xporter isn't a bad product, it's just not a particularly attractive one. If the video/audio transcoding software were excellent, and it only used one USB port, it might be worth the price difference.

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Final Thoughts

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Iomega Media Xporter

3.0 Average

Buy a cheaper USB hard drive and download free media-conversion software if you really need the extra storage.

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Jason Cross

Jason Cross

jason_cross@ziffdavis.com

Jason was a certified computer geek at an early age, playing with his family's Apple II when he was still barely able to write. It didn't take long for him to start playing with the hardware, adding in 80-column cards and additional RAM as his family moved up through Apple II+, IIe, IIgs, and eventually the Macintosh. He was sucked into Intel based side of the PC world by his friend's 8088 (at the time, the height of sophisticated technology), and this kicked off a never-ending string of PC purchases and upgrades.

Through college, where he bounced among several different majors before earning a degree in Asian Studies, Jason started to pull down freelance assignments writing about his favorite hobby—video and computer games. It was shortly after graduation that he found himself, a thin-blooded Floridian, freezing his face off at Computer Games Magazine in Vermont, where he founded the hardware and technology section and built it up over five years before joining the ranks at ExtremeTech and moving out to beautiful northern California. When not scraping up his hands on the inside of a PC case, you can invariably find Jason knee-deep in a PC game, engrossed in the latest console title, or at the movie theater.

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