Since this is not a "sealed" hard drive, is contamination an issue when moving the disks from place to place?
Iomega devoted a lot of attention to this, and has made great technical progress in the area of contamination control, employing a number of patent-pending and trade-secret technologies to guard against failures. The spindle motor is in the cartridge and not the drive, specifically to eliminate the spindle hole, a potential source of contamination. With no spindle hole, the cartridge is sealed at all times while it is out of the drive. Upon insertion, the disk door is sealed to a mating door in the drive. This gasket sealing ensures minimal introduction of foreign matter. During operation, air flow is specially channeled around the media heads to flush away any potential contamination. Algorithms in the drive firmware also monitor the system and if necessary apply a special head cleaning mechanism. Finally, the Iomega REV drive uses advanced ECC error correction when writing data to the disk, which compensates for localized media issues.
What different drive interface types are available?
In April 2004, the Iomega REV drive became available
in the internal ATAPI and external USB 2.0 interfaces.
In Q3 2004, the SCSI, the external
bus-powered FireWire, and internal SATA interfaces
will be introduced.
Do I have to do something special to use the Iomega REV drive with my computer?
Once you have installed the Iomega REV System Software, the Iomega REV drive appears as a standard drive letter to both the user and the operating system.
How fast is the Iomega REV drive's transfer
rate and access time?
The maximum native transfer rate of the Iomega REV drive is 25 MBytes/second.
Actual speed may be limited by the bus type – for instance, transfer rates of
many USB 2.0 host controller chips do not exceed 15 MBytes/second, and the maximum
USB 1.1 transfer rate is 1.5 MBytes/second. Average seek time is 13 milliseconds.
Do I have to format an Iomega REV disk before I can use it?
No, Iomega REV disks come pre-formatted. A disk can be reformatted periodically to refresh its performance, or to quickly erase all the data on the disk. On a PC, the format option is simply found by right-clicking on the drive letter, just like with any other similar storage device.
Can I label my Iomega REV disks?
Yes, adhesive-backed labels are provided which fit on the front of
the media.
*Compressed capacity assuming 2.6:1 data compression using "high" compression
setting in Iomega Automatic Backup Pro software. This capacity may vary since
compression is data and software dependent. 1GB equals 1,000,000,000 bytes
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