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For Immediate Release
Iomega Unveils New Zip® 750MB FireWire®
Drive
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 10, 2002 - Iomega
Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in portable
data storage, today debuted the first Iomega ® Zip®
drive with integrated FireWire® support for Mac
and Windows at Apple Expo in Paris.
"The new Iomega Zip 750MB FireWire drive demonstrates
Iomega's commitment to Mac customers, for whom FireWire
is the acknowledged high-speed connection standard,"
said Werner Heid, president and CEO, Iomega Corporation.
"The Zip 750MB FireWire drive offers Apple users
more capacity and more speed while delivering the seamless
and dependable functionality that Mac users appreciate
-- plug-and-play convenience, host power, superb software,
and our famous rugged disk design to protect their critical
data."
"Transferring data at up to 400Mbps, FireWire
is the interface of choice for today's digital audio
and video devices, as well as external hard drives and
other high-speed peripherals," said Ron Okamoto,
Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations.
"FireWire's high bandwidth gives Iomega's new Zip
750MB drive the ability to run at blazing speeds that
Mac users value."
Third Generation Zip Drive
The new Zip 750MB FireWire drive represents the third
generation of the company's award-winning removable
storage solution for small business, home, and enterprise
users. Since the original Zip drive was introduced in
March 1995, Iomega has shipped more than 48 million
drives and 300 million disks, making the Zip platform
one of the most popular and successful computer peripherals
ever released.
Zip 750MB Drive Family
Iomega launched the Zip 750MB platform on August 15
with the Zip 750MB USB 2.0 drive. The Zip 750MB drive
features triple the capacity and more than double the
maximum transfer rate of the popular Zip 250MB drive,
while remaining backwards compatible with Zip 250MB
disks (read and write) and Zip 100MB disks (read only).
The Zip 750MB FireWire drive includes integrated support
for FireWire, an established cross-platform industry
standard interface.
Key Zip 750MB Drive and Disk Features
- 7.5 MB/sec transfer rate (max.), the equivalent
of 50x50x50x in CD-RW terms. Unlike conventional CD-RW
drives, Zip drives perform equally whether they are
reading, writing, or rewriting to a 750MB Zip disk.
- Durable Zip 750MB disks, preformatted and enclosed
in a rigid plastic shell to protect data from the
scratches that can ruin CD-R and CD-RW discs.
- Superior rewritable performance and ease of
use with drag-and-drop file management. No setup and
disc-closing processes like those required to burn
CD-R discs.
- Password protection in firmware, a feature
only available in Zip solutions, allowing users to
"lock" the disk. Provides the ideal portable
storage format for truly protecting highly confidential
information.
- Iomega® Automatic Backup software, which
provides the choice of scheduled or on-the-fly automatic
backup of any designated folder or drive, and supports
the protection of multiple file revisions.
- Iomega® Sync software, for Windows PCs,
provides sophisticated synchronization of folders
or drives across multiple PCs.
Availability
The Zip 750MB FireWire drive, now on display at Apple
Expo in Paris, will be shipping worldwide by September
30 for a suggested retail price of $199.95 (U.S. pricing
only). Zip 750MB disks, available in Kevlar blue, retail
for a suggested price of $12.49 per disk in an 8-pack
(U.S. pricing only).
About Iomega
Iomega Corporation provides easy-to-use, high value storage
solutions to help people protect, secure, capture and
share their digital valuables. Iomega's award-winning
storage products include the popular Zip® 100MB, 250MB
and 750MB drives, high-performance Iomega® HDD portable
hard drives that feature capacities from 20GB to 30GB,
Iomega® HDD external hard drives that offer capacities
from 40GB to 120GB, and Iomega® external CD-RW drives.
Iomega simplifies data protection and sharing at home
and in the workplace with Iomega® Automatic Backup
software, Iomega® Sync software, and HotBurn
CD-recording software. For networks, Iomega® NAS servers
offers capacities of 120GB to 480GB. The Company can be
reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA (888-446-6342), or on the Web
at http://www.iomega.com.
NOTE: The statements contained in this release regarding
development, production and distribution of the Iomega
product, anticipated product pricing and availability,
expected product performance and specifications, future
applications for the new product and all other statements
that are not purely historical, are forward looking
statements within the meaning of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All such forward looking
statements are based upon information available to Iomega
as of the date hereof, and Iomega disclaims any intention
or obligation to update any such forward looking statements.
Actual results could differ materially from current
expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute
to such differences include, but are not limited to,
the successful completion of product development and
testing, market acceptance of, and demand for, the Iomega
product, any difficulties encountered in ramping up
production or other manufacturing issues, including
component availability and pricing, co-development,
production, and distribution issues, product pricing
and conformity to specifications, dependence upon third
party suppliers, competition, intellectual property
rights and other risks and uncertainties identified
in the reports filed from time to time by Iomega with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including
Iomega's Annual Report on Form 10 K for the year ended
December 31, 2001, and its most recent Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q.
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Copyright© 2002 Iomega Corporation. All rights
reserved. Iomega, Zip, Peerless, Predator, DataSafe,
QuikSync, HotBurn and LifeWorks are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Iomega Corporation in the
United States and/or other countries. Certain other
product names, brand names and company names may be
trademarks or designations of their respective owners.
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