(CNET.com) -- The Iomega eGo portable hard drive sports a stylish look and compact size. It's currently offered in just one capacity -- 160GB -- but it's available in two colors, red and silver.
The look and feel of this drive is impressive.
The anodized-aluminum-and-polished-steel case resembles a flask and we find ourselves wanting to handle it constantly. But looks aren't everything, and unfortunately, this drive proved to be a slow writer (its read times were fine, however).
If you're looking for a stylish, flashy drive and don't mind slow write speeds, this $130 drive is a great choice. But if you can't do without fast write speeds, check out the Seagate FreeAgent Go (which is stylish in its own right).
The major downside of this product -- and it's an important one -- is its performance. Among external drives tested in the CNET Labs, its write performance was on the low end. It wrote a 10GB folder of mixed file types in 18 minutes, 46 seconds.
The Seagate FreeAgent Go wrote the same folder in 10 minutes, 33 seconds.
The Iomega eGo read back that same folder to the testbed drive in 8 minutes, 38 seconds; the FreeAgent Go did the job in exactly the same time.
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