I/O Magic 20GB storage device

[MrKickalot]

Has anyone ever used this? It looks a little like an X-drive but the price is almost too good to be true...

http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CT LG%5F001%5F003%5F009%5F000&product%5Fid=25%2D3104

[evilenglishman]

looks like a direct rip off!
Note: It's only usb 1 and has no display though :wink:

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

That's the vosonic VP2030 the first device.
It only has USB1.0 as option, the price not very cheap but not expensive.

You can better buy a 2.5" HDD from a PC store and an empty XsDrive II and connect them yourself, we also buy the XsDrives empty and fill them ourselfs, we can choose the better HDD's that way and it's cheaper for the customer.

Greetings,
Frank

[CyberDyneSystems]

Yes,. it is an X-Drive 1... Most of us have the X-Drive 2 which is USB2 and has the LCD that gives copying information..

It's standard RS prcedure to have stuff made for them.. and IO-Magic is one of those "generic" brands you see in CompUSA all the time,. things like CD-Rom drives.. IO-Magic doesn't actually make anything.. the CD_Rom is a Lite-On or Mitsumi.. in this case .. it's and X-drive.

A damn good price for it with the 20GB.. but you'd be better off with the USB2 version.

[E.J.S]

Hello,

I just wanted to let ya know that I/O Magic products are cheap in concerns with quality. I had a cd burner and it completely stopped working after 3 months of use. Well... actually I burned about 5 cds and the 6th+ would never work. They had me thinking it was the included Nero software which I upgraded many times with no luck. I even tried other burner programs like cd creator and nothing would work.

A buddy had the same problems...

-Eric

[Relics]

Compgeeks has the x drive II for $85.00 (without hard drive)

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=VP-2060

[theoldmoose]

looks like a direct rip off!
Note: It's only usb 1 and has no display though :wink:

I believe the accepted industry phrase is 'private label'. :wink:

Anyway, it's cheap stuff. I have an Xs-DriveII, which has an information display (no image preview) and USB 2.0, and I've had nothing but problems getting it to talk reliably to the USB 2.0 chipset on my ASUS motherboard. On other systems it seems to work OK, and my ASUS board works with all the other USB 2.0 and FireWire devices I throw at it. It's been pretty frustrating. I have to plug the drive into my laptop which only has USB 1.1 ports, to force the speed down so I can transfer reliably without all the 'Unsafe removal of device' messages popping up. I've even had the incessant messages and dropped connections mess up the formatting of the XsDriveII for me, losing photos in the process.

They use VxWorks, which has a buggy implementation of the FAT32 filesystem too, and some long or complex file names will cause the OS in the XsDriveII to lock up.

I'm not even sure it was worth the $99 I paid for it. What good is something like that if you can't rely on it?

Also, Vosonic will not support the drive. They refer all questions to the retailer, in this case, ComputerGeeks. What are they going to do about buggy firmware? And, yes, I've updated the firmware from the Vosonic site. It doesn't help.