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Iomega Ships 35GB 'Son of Jaz'
Hamster Of Death writes "Iomega has begun selling its 'son of Jaz' removable hard drive, Rev. Pitched as an alternative to tape back-up rigs, Rev provides 35GB of uncompressed storage capacity per 2.5in removable disk. The disk is mounted inside a 1 x 0.8 x 0.8cm cartridge, and yields a 25MBps transfer rate - eight times faster than DDS-4 tape, Iomega claims."
The Slashdot post is wrong. It's actually 10cm x 8cm x 0.8cm.
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About 7 years ago IOmega had a product called the Jaz drive that was like a 1GB floppy drive (at the time HDDs were in the low single GB range). It was expensive (as was the media) and was completely beaten by CDRs a few years later. However from what I understand it was much much faster and more reliable than their Zip drives.
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
5400rpm 160Gb drives are now only $105. Add a $35 external USB enclosure and your costs are still below $1.00 per gigabyte.
(There are 7200rpm drives that are only $92, but I prefer the slower, cooler, quieter 5400rpms when mounting in not-the-greatest for cooling external enclosures.)
If they can drop the media costs to $15-$20 per cartridge, I think they'd have a winner.
Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?
Nope, I mean exactly what I wrote. It's funny how I started to get modded to Offtopic by those less geeky than me.
Sorry, but an FTP server at home is not a common solution, even for the nerdier section of the population.
USB pen drives however are gaining more and more ground. Still behind floppy disks though!
Okay, quick look on the net - http://www.pricewatch.com/, and I see USB hard drives with 40GB of space for under $60. Why buy it from Iomega for more?
>Really, I don't see the problem with Iomega.
It's not just the reliability of their products that sucks ass.
It was their repair system.
It took a 1 hour, 45 minute long distance call from Ontario, Canada to Utah, USA to get someone on the line. That call cost $70 (at the time long distance was expensive) because their crap company couldn't even afford an 800 number. I had a couple the click of death happening on the drive.
I send the drive to them, again, at high expense (unless you are in the US they require international shipping to them in Utah -- DON'T SELL WHAT YOU AREN'T WILLING TO SUPPORT!). They say there's no fault with it and return it with a new faceplate (clearly the old ones broke off too easily). Turns out that the disks supplied and 30% of the other disks I had purchased for that drive were defective.
At well over $100 per support incident, I wasn't about to send the $20 disks back. Instead I ditched their shit products forever.
BTW: Let's not forget the abysmal website they had. So slow that it took over 8 hours to do a 5 megabyte download of their latest software. Yes, literally, my old 2400 baud modem well outpaced their website, which, in 1995/1996, didn't even use the ALT tag -- that's like cutting out 20% of your market RIGHT THERE.
Note that later they were sued for their absolutely unacceptable product repair support, and I technically have a $5 rebate with their company as a result of their court case loss (fat chance I'll use it).
In short, Iomega can burn in hell. I wouldn't *EVER* buy anything associated with them again. Period. Hell, if it where free I'd trash it. Even if they PAID me I'd trash it. I wouldn't want to accidentally rely on their company in the future. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
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Click Death, a.k.a. the Click of Death, is the sound you hear when your Zip/Jaz disk (or drive) is probably trashed, beyond all repair. When all other methods of reading a portion of data fail, the last ditch effort of the Zip drive is to raise, then lower again, the reading heads in an attempt to reposition or realign them. This makes a "click...cah, click...cah, click...cah" sound: Click Death.
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Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.