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Product comparison · 2 external hard drives

Iomega 500GB Helium HDD vs Iomega Portable 500GB

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  • 11specifications compared
  • 6differ
  • 5identical
  • 19known for one product only

Key differences

  • Product colour
    • Silver
    • Red
  • Bus powered
    • No
    • USB
  • Width
    • 85 mm
    • 83 mm
  • Depth
    • 123.9 mm
    • 124 mm
  • Height
    • 17.5 mm
    • 17 mm
  • Weight
    • 163 g
    • 160 g

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30 specifications
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Iomega

500GB Helium HDDView product
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Iomega

Portable 500GBView product
Hard driveidentical
HDD sizeKnown for one2.5"
Storage drive buffer sizeKnown for one8 MB
Ports & interfacesidentical
Ethernet LANKnown for oneNo
FireWire 400Known for oneNo
FireWire 800Known for oneNo
Features1 differ
Product colourDiffersSilverRed
Plug and PlayKnown for oneYes
Windows operating systems supportedKnown for oneWindows 2000, Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP Home, Windows XP
Mac operating systems supportedKnown for oneMac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Power1 differ
Bus poweredDiffersNoUSB
External power adapterKnown for oneNo
Weight & dimensions4 differ
WidthDiffers85 mm83 mm
DepthDiffers123.9 mm124 mm
HeightDiffers17.5 mm17 mm
WeightDiffers163 g160 g
Other featuresidentical
InternalKnown for oneNo
Mac compatibilityKnown for oneYes
Minimum RAMKnown for one128 MB
Minimum processorKnown for onePowerPC G3
USB 2.0 ports quantityKnown for one1
USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) ports quantityKnown for one0
USB requiredKnown for oneYes
Compatible operating systemsKnown for oneWindows Vista/7/2000/XP Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.6
Connectivity technologyKnown for oneWired
Securityidentical
Fingerprint readerKnown for oneNo

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