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Iomega ships Predator CD-RW

updated 09:18 am EST, Wed December 20, 2000

 
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Iomega has begun shipping its Predator CD-RW drive and will be widely available in the United States during early January. The $270 external drive offers 8x4x32x speeds and interchangeable adapters, but currently ships with a USB 1.1 interface. A FireWire adapter will be available in the first quarter of 2001 for $330, with USB 2.0 and PCMCIA adapters to follow later in the year. It is bundled with Adaptec Toast, MusicMatch Jukebox Plus and MGI PhotoSuite software.


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    Good commercial and ad !

    Follow the links and view the "Virtual Demo Movie" and "Predator Commercial".

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    Good commercial and ad !

    Follow the links and view the "Virtual Demo Movie" and "Predator Commercial".

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    Love the look, but...

    ... the FireWire adapter will be outrageously expensive. Come on Iomega, lets make this affordable.

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    USB Misleads Again...

    From the astrisk at the bottom of the Product Info Page:

    * Actual drive speed is 8X4X32. The speed the drive achieves depends on the interface. USB1.1 allows drive speeds of 4X4X6, USB 2.0 will allow the full 8X4X32 speeds, Firewire allow 8X4X32, and PCMCIA allows 4X4X6.

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    usual iomega junk

    Pretty much the same as usual for iomega, storage space gets lower along with their share price, and the price of their gear goes up. Same stuff as everyone else is doing, but more expensive and much later. Who wants an 8X burner now that Yamaha are doing them at 16X ?

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    Misleading USB

    I did the math before I came to comment and now I'm even more confused. 32x is somewhat more than triple the capacity of USB 1.x...but there's no reason I know of for the drive to drop down to a 4/4/6 speed. It should be able to do 8/4/8 if the bus is quiet.

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    burned by Jaz

    I don't think I could ever buy another Iomega product after the c*** I went through with my Jaz and its self-destructing cartridges.
    Yamaha CD-RW all the way!

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    Lame and overpriced

    Why bother with this expensive and limited piece of junk when you can put a good IDE burner into a FireWire box yourself for less money? The 12x Plextor IDE drives are on sale everywhere for barely over $200, add $130 for a FireWire enclosure and you got a much better burning solution than this pathetic product.

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    Re: Misleading USB

    The USB bus itself can handle the data needed for an 8X burn, but Apple's USB driver software limits any one connection on the bus to 800K. A 4X burn takes 600K and is just possible; a 6X is 900K so 6X and anything higher are out.

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    FireWire Adapter price

    Actually, the price for the FireWire adapter is not $330.00, like the MacNN piece said, the price for the drive AND FireWire adapter will be $330.00. Big difference.

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