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Iomega Plans 20GB Portable Drives

Posted by timothy on from the wanna-buy-a-betamax? dept.

Shivetya writes: "This is cool, the heck with using a palty 650mb of CDROM storage for playing MP3s in your car. According to this article over on CNET IOMEGA may just have a 20gb solution coming with their new "Peerless" system." As michael exults: "Yay! more portable drives that are totally incompatible with everything else including all other Iomega drives! Yay!"

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  1. "Peerless"? by Black+Perl · · Score: 5
    "Peerless"? What's with that name?

    Iomega is so excited about this evolution of the Jaz drive. I think a more appropriate name would be Iomega Jiz.

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  2. God, Michael is such a tool! by FatSean · · Score: 5

    Yeah...Iomega purposely made their new drive incompatible with all the other 20GB portable drives out on the Market. Same with their Zip and Jazz drives, right?

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  3. NOW WITH 20,000% MORE DATA LOSS!!! by stienman · · Score: 5

    Great. Now instead of losing a paltry 100MB due to click of death, I can lose 20GB!

    I trust Iomega to hold my data like I trust a sieve to hold water.

    -Adam

    This message created with 80% recycled bits, 20% post user.

    This sig 80% recycled bits, 20% post user.

  4. dude by fizban · · Score: 5
    As michael exults: "Yay! more portable drives that are totally incompatible with everything else including all other Iomega drives! Yay!"

    Someone slap that idiot. How are they supposed to be compatible with previous drives??? Find a answer to that question and then I'll give you permission to complain. Storage devices are very technology dependent, where the actual PHYSICAL properties of each drive change as they gain the ability to store more data on them. It's not like they're just writing software.

    Between that comment and the stupid review of Myst III, someone should really consider kicking "Michael" out of here. He provides absolutely nothing beneficial to this site.

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  5. 20 GB Portable Drive by Calle+Ballz · · Score: 5

    It's compatible with any/all IDE systems.

    Two Steps two obtain:

    1. Buy removable drive bay

    2. Buy 20GB hard drive

    Instant Portability! Satisfaction Guarenteed!

  6. Pron, Warez and Mp3s. Oh my. by Kujako · · Score: 5

    It seems more and more hardware is being devloped to satsify the needs of Pron, Warez and Mp3 mongers. I'm reminded of a Simpsons sequence.... Homer... So, what have you been doing with your self. Nerd... I've been working on a new system that lets you download pron twenty times faster. Marge... Do you realy need that much pron. Homer... mmmmmmmmm. Porn. So the only question is, where can I get one. You know, for um, database storage & stuff.

  7. Click....Click....Click by Quizme2000 · · Score: 5

    I can use my rebate coupon from the class action suit to buy a drive that will destroy an entire year of data instead of a week's worth. Click....Click....Click....

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