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For Immediate Release
Iomega Now Shipping
New REV™ 35 Gigabyte FireWire® Drive
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New Interface Brings the Award-Winning High Capacity Portable Storage Drive to the Mac® Market
SAN DIEGO,
August 2, 2004 Iomega Corporation (NYSE:
IOM), a global leader in data storage, today announced
that a bus-powered FireWire® version
of the revolutionary new Iomega® REV™ drive is
now shipping.
The new Iomega REV 35GB* 1394/FireWire drive gives Mac® users
an elegant, high-performance device for backup and
large file portable storage, combining the speed and
ease of use of a hard drive with the removability of
tape or optical products.
"Iomega is proud to bring the benefits of the new
Iomega REV drive to the Mac OS X users in a high-performance
FireWire design," said Werner Heid, president and CEO,
Iomega Corporation. "For computer enthusiasts and small
and medium-sized businesses, the native FireWire REV
drive, created specifically for Apple users, opens
up a whole new world of possibilities for easy transporting
and archiving of large files, as well as transforming
the backup process."
The Iomega REV drive, launched in April, is already available
in USB 2.0 and internal ATAPI models, with SCSI and Serial
ATA models planned for later this year. The Iomega REV
drive was recently honored with a "Best of CeBIT America" award
for personal hardware. The REV drive is also a "PC Magazine
Editors' Choice" recipient (June 22, 2004 issue). State-of-the-Art Performance
The REV drive delivers exceptional read-write performance
of up to 25 MB/sec. (maximum native transfer rate),
much faster than writable CD or DVD alternatives. REV
disks are smaller than a deck of playing cards (10
x 77 x 75 mm) and with 35GB of storage capacity on
each disk, REV disks have more than seven times the
capacity of standard DVD discs. With drag-and-drop
random access technology, REV drive users can copy
and transport files in seconds.
The new REV FireWire drive features a distinct two-tone
design in white and light grey specifically created to
coordinate with other Mac peripheral products. In addition,
each REV FireWire drive ships with one Mac-formatted
REV disk, which can be easily reformatted for PC users,
providing a complete out-of-the-box solution. All
users will appreciate that the new REV FireWire drive
is bus-powered for convenient use without a power supply.
Bundled Software For A Total Solution
Included with each Iomega REV FireWire drive is a software
suite that provides for scheduled or automatic file
backup, full system backup and recovery, and software-based
compression. These features are available to
Mac users with the included Dantz® Retrospect® Express
software, and to PC users with the included Iomega Automatic
Backup Pro software and the included Symantec Norton
Ghost for REV(TM) software.
"We're delighted that Mac OS X users
of Iomega's revolutionary new REV 35GB FireWire drive
will be protected from data disasters with Retrospect
Express," said Don Chouinard, director of product marketing
at Dantz Development Corporation. "Using Retrospect Express
with high-performance REV disks will deliver the most
reliable, easy to use data protection."
Revolutionary Reliability
REV disks are rated for over one million rewrites and
are engineered for a long shelf life, estimated to
exceed 30 years. In the REV drive design, sensitive
components like the read/write heads and electronics are located in the REV
drive for protection. The disk itself holds a hard drive platter and a fluid-dynamic
bearing motor, a design that delivers high durability while also eliminating
the spindle hole as a potential source of dust contamination. Patent-pending
air filtration, together with shutters that seal off both drive and disk from
outside air when the disk is inserted and ejected, contribute to a virtual "clean
room" environment inside the removable REV disk.
These features, combined with Iomega's patent-pending advanced two-stage error
correction and patent-pending automatic head cleaning, give REV storage products
exceptional data integrity--better than that of many sealed hard drives.
Vertical Markets
The Iomega REV drive has the speed, capacity and reliability to transform
large file tasks in any business. Apple computer users in vertical markets
will be delighted with the features and the virtually unlimited storage expandability
of the REV FireWire drive. The Iomega REV FireWire drive is ideal for :
- Audio/video producers who archive professional audio and video projects;
- Graphics designers, architects, publishers and other professionals that
work with large files;
- Software developers;
- Engineers and consultants that manage CAD/CAM and GIS data;
- Companies and stores that manage surveillance video; and
- Students in shared
computing environments who need to maintain their own data files on removable
media.
Compatibility and Requirements
For Mac users, the new REV FireWire drive is a 6-pin FireWire 400 device that
supports Mac OS X v10.1.5 and above. For PC users, supported operating systems
include Microsoft® Windows® XP Home and Professional; Windows Server
2003 Standard Edition; and Windows 2000 Server/Professional/Advanced Server
(SP3 and SP4). A power supply is included for use when daisy-chaining FireWire
devices or when using 4-pin FireWire connections.
Price and Availability
The new Iomega REV 35GB drive with FireWire interface is now shipping at a
price, including one disk, of $399.99. Mac-formatted disks are also available
separately for $59.99 each (all prices are U.S. suggested retail).
The
Iomega REV drive is also shipping in USB 2.0 external ($399.99 with one disk
included) and ATAPI
internal ($379.99 with one disk included) configurations (all prices are U.S.
suggested retail). SCSI and SATA models are also planned for introduction in
2004. Iomega REV autoloaders, which will support multiple disks per drive unit,
are currently planned for introduction in the second half of 2004.
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 35GB
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 Iomega
Floppy USB-Powered Drive. 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 REV 35GB 1394/FireWire drive , anticipated product
pricing and availability, SATA, SCSI, and autoloader versions of REV, expected
product performance and specifications, potential product life span, 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,
any losses of key personnel, any software issues or technical issues related
to the new technology, 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 = 1,000,000,000 bytes.
Copyright© 2004 Iomega Corporation. All rights
reserved. Iomega, Zip, REV, Active Disk, iStorage,
HotBurn, Micro Mini, 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
trademarks or designations of their respective owners.
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