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Iomega Corporation Celebrates Twenty-Five Years of Business

Media please contact:
Chris Romoser, Iomega Corporation, (858) 314-7148 romoser@iomega.com

Analyst/Investors, please contact:
Tom Liguori, Iomega Corporation, (858) 314-7188

For Immediate Release

Iomega Corporation Celebrates Twenty-Five Years of Business
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2005 Celebration Planned, Beginning With Online Anniversary Sale

SAN DIEGO, March 31, 2005 - Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in data storage, is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary with commemorative activities throughout 2005, including a special online sale, a sweepstakes giveaway and a traveling product exhibition in the fall that will culminate with a public birthday celebration.

During its first quarter-century, Iomega's products have been embraced by millions of computer users worldwide. To celebrate, the Iomega online store is hosting a eight-day 25th Anniversary Celebration Sale beginning April 4th, with 25 percent off featured Iomega solutions, including external hard drives, Zip drives, USB flash drives, DVD burners and the new Iomega REV drive.*

"Beginning April 12, visitors to the Iomega web site can also enter a 25th Anniversary Sweepstakes to win one of six Iomega Silver Series external hard drives. The 25th Anniversary Celebration Sale and the 25th Anniversary Sweepstakes will be accessible at www.iomega.com.

"Twenty-five years of business in the computer technology sector is a great accomplishment," said Werner Heid, president and CEO, Iomega Corporation. "We're sharing our appreciation with our customers starting with a first-of-its-kind one-week online celebration offering 25 percent savings on nearly all of our products at Iomega.com. We're not stopping there. There will be an online sweepstakes and more celebrations through the end of the year, culminating with a surprise event as we kick off Iomega's second quarter century."

In August, Iomega will launch a 25th Anniversary Mobile Tour, bringing Iomega solutions to community events coast-to-coast, culminating with a special public birthday celebration. Details of the birthday celebration event will be announced before the tour begins.

Iomega's 25-year history stretches back to April 2, 1980, and the early years of the personal computer revolution. The company was founded by four former IBM engineers who invented a radical new approach to the problem of keeping the read/write heads of a magnetic storage device from contacting the rotating platter. Their crash-proof drive was commercialized in 1982 as the Bernoulli drive, a 10-megabyte removable disk and drive that changed the way businesses and computer hobbyists utilized portable computer storage.

In March 1995, Iomega launched the low-cost Iomega Zip 100MB drive for the consumer and small business market. It was an instant success that revolutionized the storage industry, becoming one of the fastest-selling and most successful peripherals in the history of computing. Today, Iomega has sold more than 55 million Zip drives and 350 million Zip disks. This year the Zip drive celebrates its tenth anniversary as a rugged, reliable choice for portable storage for consumers and business users around the world.

In April 2004, Iomega revolutionized removable storage once again with the Iomega REV 35 GB** drive, the highest capacity removable storage platform in the company's history. Designed as a tape replacement product for small and medium-sized businesses and for vertical markets such as broadcasting and video surveillance, the REV disk holds a whopping 35 gigabytes, is smaller than a pack of playing cards, offers the speed and ease of use of a hard drive, and provides the removability and portability of tape.

The Iomega REV drive includes Iomega Automatic Backup Pro software for Windows (Dantz® Retrospect® Express software is included for Mac users of the FireWire REV drive), squeezing up to 90 gigabytes of compressed data on a single REV disk and giving businesses and advanced home users a complete solution for backing up, archiving, and disaster protection.

The REV system-in its USB 2.0, ATAPI, SCSI, FireWire, and SATA interfaces - is the centerpiece of the Iomega portfolio of professional storage products. Combined with a growing line of network attached storage devices (NAS) ranging in capacity from 160 gigabytes to 1.6 terabytes, Iomega provides small and mid-sized businesses with everything they need to fulfill their corporate mandate for data protection and disaster recovery.

For consumers, Iomega has built one of the broadest product portfolios available today, which includes virtually all categories of computer storage. In addition to Zip drives, DVD burners and CD-RW drives, Iomega markets a broad range of single interface and multiple interface external hard drives, USB flash drives, and even external floppy drives - all designed to meet the storage needs and preferences of computer users.

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 in multiple computer interfaces, as well as a 10-cartridge, one-drive automation product, the REV 1000 Autoloader;, popular Zip® 100MB, 250MB and 750MB Drives; high-performance Iomega® External Hard Drives; 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 1.6TB. 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 anticipated 2005 promotional and celebratory activities, applications for existing Iomega products, 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, 2004, and its most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

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* Excludes factory outlet items, NAS, REV 1000 Autoloader, iStorage, and disks. Iomega 25 percent off promotion cannot be combined with other promotional offers. Discount will apply to retail prices only, and does not apply to shipping. Prices shown on website reflect 25% off discount. Offer good while supplies last; no rainchecks for merchandise that sells out.

** 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes.

Copyright© 2005 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 trademarks or designations of their respective owners.