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For Immediate Release

New National Tax Time Survey Shows Many Computer Users Aren't Employing Good Backup Practices
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Tax Time is The Right Time to Start Backing Up Critical Digital Data

SAN DIEGO, March 22, 2006- A new national survey of U.S. adult computer users has found that even at tax time, good backup habits are hard to come by. In fact, two of the most popular reported 'backup' practices don't produce digital backup copies at all.

The new survey, commissioned by Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), and conducted by Harris Interactive®, shows that 46 percent of U.S. adult computer users have at some time prepared income taxes using a computer. However, 57 percent of these users report using paper printouts as their only backup. Even more surprising was that 37 percent think that their computer hard drive is their backup location, leaving them completely unprotected from future hard drive failures, virus attacks, or accidental deletions.

"Paper printouts are a nice first step, but leaving tax files on the hard drive of your computer doesn't result in digital backup copies," said Jon Huberman, vice chairman and CEO, Iomega Corporation. "If the hard drive crashes or a virus or hacker cripples your computer, that electronic tax file is quite probably gone, along with all your other important data. In today's computing environment you have to protect your important files with true backup copies safely stored somewhere else. That means using removable media, external hard drives, even online storage. The key is to store a separate electronic copy in a separate location and not put all your trust in your computer hard drive."

2006: The Most Popular Backup Methods for Storing and Protecting Digital Data
According to the survey's findings of those who have used a computer to prepare their taxes, the top five backup methods (not counting paper printouts and the primary computer hard drive, which are not digital backup methods) are as follows:

• CDs and DVDs (25 percent);
• Magnetic media such as floppy disks and Zip® disks (14 percent);
• Online backup (11 percent);
• External hard drives (6 percent);
• USB flash drives (4 percent).

"Consumers, as well as small businesses, have so many choices for backup today that there is really no excuse for losing digital tax files and other important data," continued Huberman. "At Iomega, we recommend our customers establish a simple backup routine and follow it. Our Zip drives and high capacity REV® drives, as well as our stand alone external hard drives, come complete with automatic backup software that makes it easy to create a user's own customized backup schedule to help protect important computer files. When you really think about it, protecting personal tax data, as well as that irreplaceable favorite family digital photo or video or work file, should be just as important as creating it."

Iomega has been providing people with powerful, easy-to-use storage solutions for more than 25 years, helping people protect and secure their valuable digital information. The Iomega® Zip® drive, which is one of the most popular consumer backup devices of all time, is still an ideal device for backing up important financial records and is available in 100MB, 250MB and 750MB capacities. Iomega also offers a selection of portable and desktop external hard drives, ranging in capacity from 4GB to 400GB; high-performance Iomega external hard drive solutions such as the Iomega StorCenter™ Network Hard Drive in 160GB and 250GB capacities; and the Iomega 1TB Desktop Hard Drive XL Series. Other Iomega products include external CD-RW and DVD writers, and USB flash drives, including the Iomega Mini USB Flash drives and tiny Iomega Micro Mini™ USB Flash drives, ranging in capacity from 512MB to 2GB.

For small and medium businesses, Iomega storage products include the award-winning REV® drive with compact 35GB disks, available for all popular computer interfaces. Iomega's REV product line also includes two automation products, a 10-cartridge, one-drive REV 1000 Autoloader and the innovative new desktop REV Loader 280. The REV Loader 280 holds up to eight REV disks, making it ideal for rotating daily backups as well as a weekly archive. For shared storage capabilities and data redundancy over small business networks, Iomega also provides network attached storage (NAS) servers in capacities that scale from 160GB to 1.6TB.

For anytime, anywhere access, Iomega offers iStorage™ secure online storage. An iStorage account gives consumers and small businesses instant access to their data from virtually any Internet connection in the world. Iomega offers convenient online storage accounts that range from 250MB to 15GB.

More information about all of Iomega's storage products can be found at www.iomega.com, as well as select retailers, etailers and the distribution channel.

Survey Methodology
Harris Interactive fielded the study on behalf of Iomega Corporation from February 7-9, 2006, via its QuickQuerySM online omnibus, interviewing a nationwide sample of 2,477 U.S. adults 18 and older, of whom 2,083 have digital files. Data were weighted to be representative of the total population of U.S. adult computer users on the basis of region, age within gender, education, household income, race/ethnicity, hours spent using a computer per week, hours spent online per week, and propensity to be online. In theory, with probability samples of this size, one could say with 95 percent certainty that the overall results have a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Sampling error for the various sub-sample results is higher and varies. This online sample was not a probability sample.

About Harris Interactive®
Harris Interactive Inc. (www.harrisinteractive.com), based in Rochester, New York, is the 13th largest and the fastest-growing market research firm in the world, most widely known for The Harris Poll® and for its pioneering leadership in the online market research industry. Long recognized by its clients for delivering insights that enable confident business decisions, the Company blends the science of innovative research with the art of strategic consulting to deliver knowledge that leads to measurable and enduring value.

Harris Interactive serves clients worldwide through its United States, Europe (www.harrisinteractive.com/europe) and Asia offices, its wholly-owned subsidiary Novatris in Paris, France (www.novatris.com), and through an independent global network of affiliate market research companies.

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™ 35GB Drive, available in multiple interfaces, as well as the REV 1000 Autoloader and new REV Loader 280; Zip® 100MB, 250MB and 750MB Drives; the new Iomega StorCenter™ Network Hard Drives, high-performance Iomega® External Hard Drives including the Iomega Micro Mini Hard Drive, the Iomega StorCenter™ Network Hard Drive, the Iomega 1TB Desktop Hard Drive XL Series, the Iomega MiniMax USB 2.0/FireWire Desktop Hard Drive and the Iomega ScreenPlay™ Multimedia Drive; Iomega Mini USB Drives, Micro Mini™ USB Drives, and the Iomega Mixx™ MP3 player; 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 StorCenter Pro 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 expected product performance of any data storage devices or 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, user errors, any difficulties encountered in product production or unforeseeing future performance issues, other manufacturing issues, as well as 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, 2005, and its most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

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