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| Iomega® REV™ Drive
White Papers |
Iomega Corporation, a global leader in data storage, has
introduced a revolutionary new technology called Removable
Rigid Disk (RRD). The Iomega REV drive is the first of
the company's RRD-based family of products. The Iomega
REV drive delivers state-of-the-art backup and archiving
for individual users, small- and medium-sized businesses,
and enterprise workgroups, at a lower cost but with better
performance than traditional tape backup solutions. As
a replacement for tape and other backup and archiving solutions, RRD
technology can be counted on to store valuable data reliably.
Iomega's REV Drive Delivers 30-Year Shelf Life
for Reliable Backups and Archiving
Design features and accelerated testing are keys to 30-year
shelf life specification.
This paper provides valuable insights into the fundamental
design elements that are incorporated in RRD disk technology.
It also details why this new storage solution is ideal
for data-intensive applications that require extended
storage life.
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Drop Resiliency of the Removable Iomega REV Disk
Test results show the Iomega REV cartridge
design can survive repeated 48-inch drops.
This paper explores the resiliency of the Iomega
removable rigid disk (RRD) cartridge when dropped
onto a hard surface. Included in this paper are areas
of interest regarding potential damage for dropped
cartridges, design considerations to guard against
associated damage and information on actual drop testing
of REV disks. Through both innovative engineering
design and rigorous testing, Iomega has gone to great
lengths to ensure that its REV disks meet or exceed
expectations for disk resiliency within a normal usage
environment.
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Iomega REV Drive Data Transfer Performance
Understanding potential transfer rates and factors affecting
throughput.
Iomega has gone to great lengths to ensure that
the REV drive is among the fastest technologies, thereby
reducing backup times and increasing overall productivity.
This paper discusses the potential transfer rates of the
Iomega REV drive and the factors that can influence the
system's data transfer throughput.
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Contamination Control and Mitigation for Iomega's
REV Technology
Iomega's three-fold strategy for contamination control:
start clean, stay clean and manage the remainder.
This paper discusses contamination control for a removable
cartridge disk drive system that utilizes rigid media.
The paper summarizes Iomega's extensive findings and
analyses as well as explains how the Iomega REV products
have been designed to prevent and eliminate contamination.
The research that is summarized in this document provides
insight into Iomega's continuing focus on technological
innovation to ensure that its RRD platform minimizes
contamination and mitigates any contamination that might
occur during operation.
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Iomega Automatic Backup Pro Software
Delivers Impressive Compression Results
Iomega REV Drive achieves up to 2.6:1 data compression with bundled IAB Pro Software.
This paper discusses the kinds of software compressions that can be achieved
with Iomega Automatic Backup Pro (IAB Pro) software. While most entry-level and
low-end tape devices advertise compression ratios of 2:1, only a few can claim
the 2.6:1 ratio that IAB Pro delivers. To prove these claims, IAB Pro was tested
using the Calgary Corpus data set on a freshly formatted drive and backed up
using IAB Pro's system backup option with the Iomega REV drive as the destination
drive. The results verify that the capacity of the REV drive is 35GB native and
90GB compressed, where compressed capacity is achieved assuming 2.6:1 data compression
with the "high" setting on IAB Pro software. As always, this capacity may vary
since compression is data and software dependent.
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Mean Time Between Failure for the
Iomega REV Drive
The estimated MTBF for the Iomega REV Drive is an impressive 400,000 hours.
MTBF is often used as a common measure of reliability for data storage products.
This paper outlines the methodology used by Iomega to estimate the mean time
between failure (MTBF) metric for the Iomega REV drive. Iomega believes that
the new REV technology will achieve a 400,000 hour estimated MTBF, which indicates
that REV drives will deliver the kind of outstanding reliability and piece-of-mind
that consumers and corporations alike expect from a primary backup solution.
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