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Iomega sells 1 million REV drives
updated 01:15 pm EST, Wed February 15, 2006
Iomega sells 1M REVs
Iomega, maker of hard-drive based removable storage solutions is celebrating its 25th year of business with a success in the REV Drive platform. The company announced it has sold over one million Iomega REV 35GB disks in the last 22 months. The REV drive is currently shipping in ATAPI, external USB 2.0, FireWire, SCSI, SATA and multi-disk autoloader configurations for small and medium sized businesses. According to the company, new REV products can be expected this year, stating that the one million marker is "a great start in less than two years, and we're going to build on that heritage with new products in our REV technology platform."
Wrong title
02/15, 02:08pm reply
The title should read "disks" not "drives"... No way have they sold 1 million of these drives and I'm a little surprised they even sold 1 million disks.
kuzelnik
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Joined: Mar 2000
Glad to hear it...
02/16, 12:29am reply
I bought a REV drive as soon as they released the Mac/Firewire version... I'm glad to hear any news that sounds like the format won't fade away too soon due to a lack of consumer interest. REV drives are a good solution to those who create a decent amount of data and want incremental back-ups.
misterdna
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Joined: Aug 2004
Iomega yuck!
02/16, 02:09pm reply
I used to be a big Iomega fan, until they sold me a jaz drive... As you may recall some models of these drives had faulty mechanisms that would overwrite the directory sectors on the removable cartridges. Unfortuantely I was one of the purchasers of those drives and had a very important cart rendered unreadable. Iomega replaced the drive, but wouldn't assist with the cartridge recovery. "Not their problems" they said. So now Iomega's future success is "Not my problem"; I buy elsewhere.
debohun
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unusable on the Intel Mac
03/27, 11:16am reply
I sure hope none of those million try to use it on a new Intel based Mac, they don't work. Iomega does tell you this, IF you wear a miners cap and dig real deep into their support site, But as of 3/27/06, no PRE-SALES warning. When asked about the incompatibility, their answer was "...remember the Rev software was out way before the Intel based Mac's, so they are not compatable with us not the other way around." Nice attitude....
David Joyce
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