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."

Comments

Not for Home Users?

[l810c]

It seems like Iomega has priced this out of the range of the home user market. $400 for unit + $60(%50 in lots of four/35GB.

I could buy 3 large external hard drives or more for the money. Any of the hard drives from Maxtor, WD etc. are less costly than the media alone.

Re:Reliability?

[strictnein]

I wouldn't trust my data to this even if it was 100GB/cart.

I fail to see how increased storage would affect your ability to trust your data to a device.

Too small, too expensive, too late.

[klocwerk]

when removable hard drives are so cheap, and enterprise systems are already invested in tape drives, I see no market niche for this.
Plus, 35 gig disks at $60 a pop?
mom and dad aren't going to want to pay $180, plus $400 drive cost, to back up their 120gb hard drive they got in their computer.
good luck iomega.

Mod Parent Up!!! (was Re:No way)

[mankey wanker]

It wasn't just how bad the product turned out to be - it was Iomega's failure to support the product. Double Plus Ungood.

a cold day in hell

[frovingslosh]

Someone who disagrees with you clearly would rather mod you down than try to offer any reason why you're wrong, but many people including me strongly agree with this statement

I wasn't a victim of the "click of death" drives, but I did buy a CDRW drive with their name on it. The drive had problems from day one and "technical support: would never acknowledge them. I only found out much later that the drive was a repackaged drive from another manufacturer, and that manufacturer had firmware updates out for a long time that fixed their version of the drive (but would not apply to the drive that identified itself as an Iomega drive). Iomega would never bother to supply a firmware update for the version they released or even acknowledge the problem.

In addition to this and tons of other horror stories of support issues, a problem I see with Iomega products is that the media is never cost effective. You could likely buy hard drives with more capacity than you could but just media for this new Iomega junk. And you could buy an IDE removable drive tray for a heck of a lot less than you can buy this drive for, even with several extra trays. If you go with the hard drive tray approach, hard drives for it will keep coming down in price and offer greater capacity; if you go with the Iomega solution the capacity will never increase over the 35 gigs and media will never come down in price.

Sure, there are some people (I even know a couple) who are dumb enough to put a zip drive in a computer that already has a CDRW drive in it and feed the zip drive. But there is simply no good reason to buy this or many other overpriced, underperforming Iomega products.

Re:No way

[Moofie]

My Bernoulli 230 died.
My ZIP drive died.

Twice bitten.