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For Immediate Release
Iomega Announces New Mini Hard Drive
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Ideal Storage: Big Capacity In a Tiny Package Without the Power Cord
SAN DIEGO,
November 09, 2004 -
Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in
data storage, today announced a slick little external
hard drive in 20 GB and 40 GB capacities* that is small
enough for the shirt pocket and weighs just 3.5 ounces.
The new Iomega® USB 2.0 Mini Hard Drive is the
first Iomega hard drive to receive 100 percent of
its power from a standard USB data port, allowing
mobile professionals to travel lighter and still
have plenty of storage capacity for all their important
files.
"The Iomega Mini Hard Drive is host-powered, small,
and weighs next to nothing, so it is a great choice
for mobile professionals and students," said Brad Nelson,
general manager, consumer products, Iomega Corporation. "Using
a Mini Hard Drive is extremely simple: just connect
it to your computer's USB port and you're ready to
take your files anywhere. Other external hard drives
require an external power source, tethering you to
the nearest available AC wall outlet. The Iomega Mini
Hard Drive gives the user more freedom and flexibility.
You won't find a simpler product on the market."
Key Features and Benefits Because the Iomega Mini Hard Drive is based on 1.8-inch
hard disk technology, it is smaller and more energy-efficient
than most other portable drives. The 4200-rpm drive
has a rugged aluminum enclosure and features a USB
2.0 (Hi-Speed USB) interface for plug-and-play simplicity
with any compatible Windows or Macintosh computer (see
below). A blue drive light signals disk activity, and
an on/off switch allows laptop users to power down
the device without disconnecting it.
Each drive comes with a sleek leather travel case, USB
cable, and software CD, including MusicMatch™ Jukebox
music management software (PC and Mac) and Adobe® Photoshop
Album™ SE (PC) for digital photos.
Compatibility
The Iomega Mini Hard Drive requires a Pentium processor or higher with Microsoft® Windows® Me/2000/2000
Pro/ XP Home or Professional; MAC G4 or G3 (blue and white G3 only) or iMac
computer with built-in USB connection and Mac OS 9.0 or above.
Price and Availability The Iomega Mini Hard Drive is now available in two capacities, 20 GB
($179) and 40 GB ($279). All prices are U.S. suggested retail.
About Iomega
Iomega
Corporation provides easy-to-use, high value storage
solutions to help people protect, secure, capture and
share their valuable digital information. Iomega's
award-winning storage products include the new Iomega
REV™ Drive, popular Zip® 100MB,
250MB and 750MB Drives; high-performance Iomega® HDD
External Hard
Drives in desktop and portable configurations; Iomega
Mini USB Drives and Micro Mini™ USB Drives; Iomega
external CD-RW Drives; Iomega
Super DVD Drives and the QuikTouch™ Video
Burner;
and Iomega
Floppy USB-Powered Drives. Iomega simplifies data
protection and sharing at home and in the workplace
with Iomega
Automatic Backup software, Iomega
Sync software, HotBurn® CD-recording
software, and Active
Disk™ technology. For networks, Iomega
NAS servers offer capacities of 160GB to 1TB. For
unlimited capacity and anytime, anywhere access, Iomega
offers iStorage™ secure
online storage. Iomega
also offers businesses and consumers a comprehensive data
recovery services solution for recovering lost
data due to hardware failure, file corruption or media
damage. The Company can be reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA
(888-446-6342), or on the Web at www.iomega.com.
NOTE: The statements contained in this
release regarding development, production and distribution
of the Iomega Mini Hard Drive, 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, 2003, and its most recent Quarterly Report on Form
10-Q.
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* 1 GB = 1 billion bytes.
Copyright© 2004 Iomega Corporation. All rights
reserved. Iomega, Zip, REV, Active Disk, Micro Mini,
iStorage, HotBurn and QuikTouch 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
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