Iomega revs up its drives to rival tape
Iomega revs up its drives to rival tape
The new Iomega Rev 35GB/90GB drive, released this week, aims to bring hard drive reliability and performance to world of removable storage, as a more cost effective and convenient alternative to tape.
Iomega claims that it delivers state-of-the-art server and desktop backup, while also providing businesses and home users with the ideal portable storage device for sharing and archiving large files.
Werner Heid, president and CEO of Iomega Corporation said. "The new Iomega Rev drive is a unique and versatile product that changes the rules of data backup, combining superior reliability and performance with breakthrough pricing.
"Backing up to tape has always involved compromises because tape is a relatively fragile, slow and expensive linear-access technology. Iomega's new Rev drive makes backup and system or file recovery tasks faster, easier and less costly. Small business owners and IT managers will save immediately in terms of labour, hardware costs and system downtime."
The first Rev drive will be shipped as an Atapi interface to fit inside a 3.5in PC drive bay, and the other will be an external version with an USB 2.0 interface. A FireWire version is scheduled for release in June or July, and SCSI and Serial ATA version in September.
The Iomega Rev drive offers the removeability of tape with the speed and ease of use of a hard drive. These disks transfer data eight times faster than tape, are smaller than a deck of playing cards and can be rewritten more than a million times.
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