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Iomega® REV™ 35GB/90GB* Drive
Top Ten Reasons to Buy a REV™ Drive over Tape
 
 
1. It's Fast 2.   It Costs Less
3. It's Powerful 4.   It's Efficient
5. It's Reliable 6.   It's High-Capacity
7. It's Secure 8.   It's Versatile
9. It's Compatible 10. It's REVolutionary
 
  1. It's Fast...
    With a 25 MB/s maximum native transfer rate, Iomega REV drives are up to 8 times faster than most low-end tape drives like Travan, DDS, and VS80. That means faster backups and restores, less waiting, and more time for you to be productive. Do a 20GB system backup in 20 minutes, versus over 2 hours for a DDS tape drive. That’s a lot of time you can use for other things!

  2. It Costs Less...
    At a retail price of $399, Iomega REV drives are half the price of the average tape drive**. With the REV solution you don’t just save time, you save money, too! And thanks to our innovative compression, you can fit up to 90GB* of data on a single disk, which also saves you money. Not only that, there are no cleaning cartridges to buy, and Iomega REV disks never wear out, so your total solution cost is much less than a comparable tape system. And we throw in Iomega’s award winning Iomega Automatic Backup Pro software for free!

  3. It's Powerful...
    Iomega REV drives include a new version of Iomega's award winning backup software, Iomega Automatic Backup Pro, which provides a host of powerful features for backing up and restoring data, including automated/unattended backups, 2.6:1 compression, and AES-based encryption, all of which make managing backups faster and easier.

  4. It's Efficient...
    The Iomega REV drive appears to your system like a standard drive – just like a second hard drive or CD drive – so you can drag-and-drop files to and from the REV disk quickly and easily. No special programs to run or protocols to follow – Iomega REV technology just works!

  5. It's Reliable...
    Iomega REV technology uses the same components found in a standard hard drive for the utmost reliability. We add to this the same error correction used by DVDs to make sure you’re your data is always available. Other features keep the heads and media clean automatically – so you never have to worry about your data again. No more cleaning, retensioning, or rotating out your old tape media – Iomega REV drives perform continuously with no more maintenance required.

  6. It's High-Capacity...
    Iomega REV disks hold 35GB of uncompressed data, more than most low-end tape drives, and with our software can store up to 90GB of compressed backups. That’s a lot of space, so you don’t have to worry about deleting files or only backing certain parts of your hard drive. With REV disks you can keep it all for the utmost peace of mind!

  7. It's Secure...
    Iomega REV technology keeps your data safe and secure in two ways. The REV drive software provides a high-level password protection feature that allows you to lock individual REV disks from anyone else trying to access them, and provides AES-based encryption for your backup sets. In addition, Iomega REV disk's removability allows you to take your sensitive data with you, or keep it in a safe place where no one can access it.

  8. It's Versatile...
    Iomega REV drives don’t just back up and restore better than tape – it also makes a great portable storage solution with infinite expandability. Because it acts just like a hard drive, you can save and transfer large files or a lot of data with ease. Add more disks as your need for capacity grows. Move important files off your hard drive for safekeeping offsite. Archive all your photos, movies, music. The possibilities are endless!

  9. It's Compatible...
    Because the Iomega REV drive appears on your system just like a regular hard drive or CD drive, and supports drag-and-drop file access, it should be compatible with most software programs that save data to a drive letter. Try doing that with tape!

  10. It's REVolutionary...
    Iomega REV products are the next revolution in storage, from Iomega, the leader in storage solutions. Unique REV technology brings together the speed and reliability of hard drives, with the portability and expandability of tape and optical drives, to give you a fast, high-capacity, removable storage solution that is the ultimate answer for easy, reliable backups and restores, as well as the best way to transfer and archive large amounts of data. Join the REVolution!

*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.
**Based on DDS-4 tape comparisons.