Iomega Shipping REV 35 Gigabyte FireWire Drive
August 04, 2004
San Diego, CA - Iomega Corporation is now shipping the FireWire version of its 35GB REV drive.
The Iomega REV drive, launched in April, is already available in USB 2.0 and internal ATAPI models, with SCSI and Serial ATA models planned for later this year.
The REV drive delivers exceptional read-write performance of up to 25 MB/sec. (maximum native transfer rate), much faster than writable CD or DVD alternatives, the manufacturer describes. REV disks are smaller than a deck of playing cards (10 x 77 x 75 mm) and with 35GB of storage capacity on each disk, REV disks have more than seven times the capacity of standard DVD discs. With drag-and-drop random access technology, REV drive users can copy and transport files in seconds.
The new REV FireWire drive features a distinct two-tone design in white and light grey specifically created to coordinate with other Mac peripheral products. In addition, each REV FireWire drive ships with one Mac-formatted REV disk, which can be easily reformatted for PC users, providing a complete out-of-the-box solution. All users will appreciate that the new REV FireWire drive is bus-powered for convenient use without a power supply.
Included with each Iomega REV FireWire drive is a software suite that provides for scheduled or automatic file backup, full system backup and recovery, and software-based compression. These features are available to Mac users with the included Dantz Retrospect Express software, and to PC users with the included Iomega Automatic Backup Pro software and the included Symantec Norton Ghost for REV software.
REV disks are rated for over one million rewrites and are engineered for a long shelf life, estimated to exceed 30 years. In the REV drive design, sensitive components like the read/write heads and electronics are located in the REV drive for protection. The disk itself holds a hard drive platter and a fluid-dynamic bearing motor, a design that delivers high durability while also eliminating the spindle hole as a potential source of dust contamination.
These features, combined with Iomega's patent-pending advanced two-stage error correction and patent-pending automatic head cleaning, give REV storage products exceptional data integrity--better than that of many sealed hard drives.
For Mac users, the new REV FireWire drive is a 6-pin FireWire 400 device that supports Mac OS X v10.1.5 and above. For PC users, supported operating systems include Microsoft Windows XP Home and Professional; Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition; and Windows 2000 Server/Professional/Advanced Server (SP3 and SP4). A power supply is included for use when daisy-chaining FireWire devices or when using 4-pin FireWire connections.
Price and Availability
The new Iomega REV 35GB drive with FireWire interface is now shipping at a price, including one disk, of $399.99. Mac-formatted disks are also available separately for $59.99 each (all prices are U.S. suggested retail).
The Iomega REV drive is also shipping in USB 2.0 external ($399.99 with one disk included) and ATAPI internal ($379.99 with one disk included) configurations (all prices are U.S. suggested retail). SCSI and SATA models are also planned for introduction in 2004.
Iomega REV autoloaders, which will support multiple disks per drive unit, are currently planned for introduction in the second half of 2004.
For more information, visit
www.iomega.com
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