Iomega Factory Outlet

nava · 18-01-2011 3:33pm #1

Just seen that Iomega has a factory outlet some great prices there compare to normal price on their regular, haven't compare to other websites.

Eg: Home Media Network Hard Drive iomega only €66.90 for a 1.0TB normal price shows as €169.00

Delivery €15.50

Use code IOMGROUPSCH15 for 15% discount or item not Delivery.

Connrang · 18-01-2011 3:41pm

Nava,
Thanks nice one. I'm a great fan of Omega products and was only looking at this item yesterday in Easons.
Keep these bargains coming

racso1975 · 18-01-2011 4:06pm

if ya can find a cople of other people who want buy the savings can work out great.

Got 3 of those drives just after xmas which meant free delivery and had a 10% discount code which meant the drive only cost 60 euro's each delivered.

Have been using now and it's great only thing that annoyed me was it is actually only 930gig's i knew it would never be the full 1tb but 70 gig's is a lot to lose.

Abelloid · 18-01-2011 4:08pm

I bought one before Christmas, very handy, and a great price. I just hope it doesn't burst into flames or something in a couple of months.

exspes · 18-01-2011 4:22pm

racso1975 wrote: »

if ya can find a cople of other people who want buy the savings can work out great.

Got 3 of those drives just after xmas which meant free delivery and had a 10% discount code which meant the drive only cost 60 euro's each delivered.

Have been using now and it's great only thing that annoyed me was it is actually only 930gig's i knew it would never be the full 1tb but 70 gig's is a lot to lose.

its the conversion 1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte, 1000 kb = 1 mb and 1000mb = 1 gb instead of 1024 which results in the loss. it's a standard loss throughout all hard drives, my 1TB hard drive is 931, my 500 gb is 465, the bigger the hard drive the bigger the loss.

seamus · 18-01-2011 4:39pm

exspes wrote: »

its the conversion 1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte, 1000 kb = 1 mb and 1000mb = 1 gb instead of 1024 which results in the loss. it's a standard loss throughout all hard drives, my 1TB hard drive is 931, my 500 gb is 465, the bigger the hard drive the bigger the loss.

This is standard measuring practice with hard drives since the late 90's and has been getting growing acceptance as the standard for measuring disk sizes for the last few years.

Kibibytes, Mebibytes and Gibibytes are now the standard for the *1024 measurements, and Kilo, Mega and Giga are for * 1000 measurements.

You don't actually lose more for bigger drives - not proportionally anyway. If you're assuming 1TB = 1,024 GB, then you'll lose 3% of the drive space. When the drive is formatted then, you lose another 4.5% (ish, depending on the OS). So in reality, no matter what size drive you buy, there'll be a 7-8% difference between the Gigabyte size and the Gibibyte size.

exspes · 18-01-2011 4:49pm

seamus wrote: »

This is standard measuring practice with hard drives since the late 90's and has been getting growing acceptance as the standard for measuring disk sizes for the last few years.

Kibibytes, Mebibytes and Gibibytes are now the standard for the *1024 measurements, and Kilo, Mega and Giga are for * 1000 measurements.

You don't actually lose more for bigger drives - not proportionally anyway. If you're assuming 1TB = 1,024 GB, then you'll lose 3% of the drive space. When the drive is formatted then, you lose another 4.5% (ish, depending on the OS). So in reality, no matter what size drive you buy, there'll be a 7-8% difference between the Gigabyte size and the Gibibyte size.

So 70 /> 35?

musicmonky · 18-01-2011 4:53pm

does it play H.264 video format ?

according to this review it doesn't

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=111609&pn=2

waxer1986 · 18-01-2011 4:58pm

anyone know wat the reconditioned multimedia drives are like??
http://go.iomega.com/en/products/factory-outlet/reconditioned-multimedia-drives/?partner=4725
i dont think they support mkv files couldnt see it anyway..
and which one would be better to buy if any at all...thanks:D

positron · 18-01-2011 5:05pm

That particular network drive sounds ideal, but on further research there's some horror stories on the net - see the comments on this review for instance. Also selling for $99 in Amazon.com with mixed reviews.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/12/review-iomega-home-media-network-hard-drive/

Not sure now. I was thinking I could have this one connected to the router, and have a 2gb external drive hooked to this, solving my backup voes.

seamus · 18-01-2011 5:08pm

exspes wrote: »

So 70 /> 35?

seamus wrote:

not proportionally anyway

Shiminay · 18-01-2011 5:17pm

I would never buy iOmega hard drives again - I had 2 that died causing catastrophic data loss both within 6 months of each other. 1 was a 1TB (16 months old when it died) with a PSU and the other a 320GB USB powered one (I think 6 months old when it died). Neither were subjected to any abuse except for occasional transport from my house to someone elses. And these are re-conditioned ones? No thanks!

exspes · 18-01-2011 5:29pm

seamus wrote: »

my question wasn't about proportionality.

35 < 70 = True

1TB > 500GB = True

More space is lost in formatting a 1tb hard drive than a 500gb hard drive = True

Proportion wasn't mentioned in my post = True

The bigger the hard drive the the bigger the loss = True, refer to obviously True statements to clear up any confusion about the size of numbers and proportionality.

Abelloid · 18-01-2011 5:30pm

musicmonky wrote: »

does it play H.264 video format ?

according to this review it doesn't

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=111609&pn=2

It's a NAS drive, it doesn't play anything.

musicmonky · 18-01-2011 5:48pm

JustinOval wrote: »

It's a NAS drive, it doesn't play anything.

im talking about this

http://go.iomega.com/en/products/factory-outlet/reconditioned-multimedia-drives/screenplay-plus/?partner=4725#where_to_buyItem_tab

whats the remote for , if it doesn't play anything?

Abelloid · 18-01-2011 6:19pm

musicmonky wrote: »

im talking about this

http://go.iomega.com/en/products/factory-outlet/reconditioned-multimedia-drives/screenplay-plus/?partner=4725#where_to_buyItem_tab

whats the remote for , if it doesn't play anything?

That's not what was linked in the OP, you're talking about a completely different product.

Capt'n Midnight · 19-01-2011 1:02am

seamus wrote: »

This is standard measuring practice with hard drives since the late 90's and has been getting growing acceptance as the standard for measuring disk sizes for the last few years.

It has NOT been getting growing acceptance. It is more widely understood and resented.

With computers memory was always measured in multiples of powers of two.

It's just the marketing gimps thinking they are doing something worth while.
When in reality formatting a 500 GiB drive will give you near to 500GB of space. Formatting a 500GB drive will result in your OS reporting a far smaller amount of free space :mad:

The marketing gimps should be made explain this difference to every customer who complains about it.

Thing is if everyone used the same measurements then there would be no advantage in pimping a few % extra

Technically since HDD's have spare sectors then they could include them in the size even though they are only accessible by the HDD itself

Capt'n Midnight · 19-01-2011 1:09am

exspes wrote: »

The bigger the hard drive the the bigger the loss = True, refer to obviously True statements to clear up any confusion about the size of numbers and proportionality.

The bigger the measuring unit the bigger the discrepency.

For terrabyte drives it's 10% ( marketing speak for 9.995% )

Kilo = 1024 (2.4%)
Mega = 1048576 (4.9%)
Giga = 1073741824 (7.4%)
Terra = 1099511627776 (10%)

Yotta = 1208925819614629174706176 ( 21% )

Danger_dave1 · 19-01-2011 1:42am

Alot these drives are cheaper in peats,

seamus · 19-01-2011 11:04am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

It has NOT been getting growing acceptance. It is more widely understood and resented.

With computers memory was always measured in multiples of powers of two.

And someone incorrectly attributed the words "Kilo" and "Mega" to the front of them, which are S.I. standard measures of thousands and millions, respectively

In the industry, most people now know the difference and many people are starting to use the correct terminology. It's actually quite an important distinction when you're dealing with storage and networks.

I do agree though that salespeople/manufacturers are slow/reluctant to explain the difference and will often abuse the ignorance to misrespresent their products.

Abelloid · 19-01-2011 12:13pm

It's nearly Bricks and Mortar time.

There, I've said it.

exspes · 19-01-2011 12:37pm

seamus wrote: »

And someone incorrectly attributed the words "Kilo" and "Mega" to the front of them

yea cause no one knew what i ment...:rolleyes:

aido 1976 · 20-01-2011 11:00pm

Easons are doing an Iomega 1TB at the moment for €74.99

Dont know how the specs stack up with this one though.

The are also doing a Seagate 1TB for the same price

roboshatner · 22-01-2011 8:53pm

jesus the media version is so cheap pity its sold out.

i gave the mail email to notify them when its back in.

i might just pick up a normal 1tb for 35 mad cheap

nava wrote: »

Just seen that Iomega has a factory outlet some great prices there compare to normal price on their regular, haven't compare to other websites.

Eg: Home Media Network Hard Drive iomega only €66.90 for a 1.0TB normal price shows as €169.00

Delivery €15.50

Use code IOMGROUPSCH15 for 15% discount or item not Delivery.

brightkane · 04-02-2011 2:01pm

Just ordered one of these so back on sale again.

kc66 · 04-02-2011 2:48pm

I was very tempted to buy this 500gb portable for €39.16 shipped. Chickened out at the final hurdle. Have loads of Ext HD space. I could do with a portable one though.

ednwireland · 08-02-2011 10:46am

what a rip off
was going to buy a 500 gb portable drive £27
wouldnt let me ship because i was on the uk site so whet to the irish site €89.90 :eek:

finally found them resetting the page was sending me out €29.90 +shipping sold out though

BionicRasher · 08-02-2011 12:06pm

What about ScreenPlay Plus Multimedia Drive, 1.0TB Reconditioned for €69 delivered?
Anyone got any experience of these? I am looking for a bit more storage for backups of my music and photos and DVD collection so thought this would be ideal as it will plug in to my TV too.

Owen · 08-02-2011 12:10pm

The Screenplay Plus will not play H.264 files - which is a disaster. I picked up a Director HD last week, and it's pretty good, has a bug in that it won't play the audio with 1080p files though.

BionicRasher · 08-02-2011 12:31pm

PaintDoctor wrote: »

I picked up a Director HD last week

Did you get that reconditioned from the factory outlet?
I might wait for one to show up as I see it has an Ethernet connection and seems to play a lot more stuff

roboshatner · 08-02-2011 5:31pm

return it mate

PaintDoctor wrote: »

The Screenplay Plus will not play H.264 files - which is a disaster. I picked up a Director HD last week, and it's pretty good, has a bug in that it won't play the audio with 1080p files though.

Johnny_Fontane · 23-02-2011 11:22am

Whoever started this thread should be killed.....:mad:

I purchased a screenplay director and it wont play any of my files, even basic .avi's - files that play on my ps3.

Customer Service are the worst shower of c**ts I have ever come across. Technical Support say they will send me an RMA, then dont, then tell me to talk to sales, who tell me to talk to technical support. I have had 7 'chats' with them, each explaining the problems, but nothing is done.

I'm tearing my hair out here.....anyone got anything to help me with?

brightkane · 23-02-2011 3:02pm

Johnny_Fontane wrote: »

Whoever started this thread should be killed.....:mad:
with?

Thats a bit harsh... i got 2 of them and both working perfect

foggers · 13-06-2011 10:26am

Johnny_Fontane wrote: »

Whoever started this thread should be killed.....:mad:

I purchased a screenplay director and it wont play any of my files, even basic .avi's - files that play on my ps3.

Customer Service are the worst shower of c**ts I have ever come across. Technical Support say they will send me an RMA, then dont, then tell me to talk to sales, who tell me to talk to technical support. I have had 7 'chats' with them, each explaining the problems, but nothing is done.

I'm tearing my hair out here.....anyone got anything to help me with?

I know this is an old thread but I was waiting to see how my orders would pan out. I ordered 5 at the time and 3 of the ex hdds were faulty. One of the other ones even had someone else's data on it still!!!! Proves their quality control or fault checking doesn't even include a quick format!!! Anyways, went though the complete nightmare of trying to figure out how to send them back. Oh my god......What a rigmarole. Anyways. got them sent back and got my return eventually but they sent me back 2 and said that I didn't get the third one because it was out of warranty. What a joke. I bought them all at the same time. Eventually was able to contact tyhem and again (another nightmare) and got them to acknowlege that they were in the wrong and once I emailed them the pdf invoice, I would get the third drive back. Next nightmare, they don't email you a pdf invoice when you buy and there is no way of generating it from your order history. They wouldn't accept me forwarding on the emialed txt invoice as it could have been modified to suit my needs. Got my final reply this morning saying that they would not be refunding or replacing the third drive. This company are a complete joke and should be avoided at all costs, no matter the price of the items.

pissed · 13-06-2011 10:56am

Small Claims Court ??

foggers · 13-06-2011 11:08am

pissed wrote: »

Small Claims Court ??

thanks but I couldn't be ar5ed at this point. I'm after wasting too much of my life on these cowboys......I know they win but hopefully people will read this and learn from my sh1tty experience with iomega. If they don't more fool them!!!

foggers · 13-06-2011 11:15am

Johnny_Fontane wrote: »

Whoever started this thread should be killed.....:mad:

I purchased a screenplay director and it wont play any of my files, even basic .avi's - files that play on my ps3.

Customer Service are the worst shower of c**ts I have ever come across. Technical Support say they will send me an RMA, then dont, then tell me to talk to sales, who tell me to talk to technical support. I have had 7 'chats' with them, each explaining the problems, but nothing is done.

I'm tearing my hair out here.....anyone got anything to help me with?

Just to give you help out....... I ahd all the same as above only worse and you may find yourself heading down my direction which ain't a good road but.....

To send my cr4p back, I had to, and wait for it........

Register as a reseller even though I'm just a normal punter and generate my rma through that, this took weeks of to-ing and fro-ing to get to this point.

You can register at http://www.ioclub.net/Modules/Logon/Default.aspx

you can generate the RMA in there. To be fair and this is the only good point about the whole process, once you create the RMA, you get a shipping label to print that has free shipping.

What you might/will find is that if the item is out of warranty, even though it wasn't when you origianlly contacted them, they will want, as I've stated in another post, a pdf copy of the invoice, which 'THE DON'T ACTUALLY GIVE YOU AND DO NOT PROVIDE ANY MEANS OF GENERATING ONE'.

Classic.

You should also use the serial number checker on their site to check if your yoke is out of warranty, if it's not, the RMA thing should work ok and takes a few weeks to get it back, if not, you're in for PAIN.

Also...

MAKE SURE NOT TO send them the power cables, comms cabels etc, just the device and they state that they will only send you back the device itself, not the accessories!!!!!!

Good luck, you'll need it my man.

roboshatner · 14-06-2011 9:12am

Quick question.

Thinking about getting the screenplay director.

Right well which company sell them ?

Or do you have to contact each one I thought you are buying from iomega themselves

http://go.iomega.com/en/info/where-to-buy-ie/?partner=4725#

BionicRasher · 14-06-2011 11:29am

Sounds like people having difficulty returning faulty goods

Would it not be better to buy this in a Bricks and Mortar shop like Harvey Norman - then at least you can bring it back to the shop if it packs up after a week

I might even wait for this - http://iomega.com/iomegatv-media-center/

Iomega Factory Outlet

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