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Q: Are you still amazed that iomega is in business?

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I'm amazed they are still in business as well, maybe they are struggling to survive. I still remember back in the days I had a SyQuest 230mb cartridge drive
 
Originally posted by: Crucial
Their Rev drive does the job. We use them in the servers we build instead of tape drives.
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please ellaborate.....dlt drives are pretty fast these days and I would like to hear your logic..


what are you average transfer rates? Specs say between 13 and 25MB/s
 
I just checked their financials. Apparently they have not made a profit for the past 3 years. Their revenues have been tanking as well. They went from a high of 831 million in 2001 to 264 million last year. Ouch!
 
Originally posted by: cscpianoman
I just checked their financials. Apparently they have not made a profit for the past 3 years. Their revenues have been tanking as well. They went from a high of 831 million in 2001 to 264 million last year. Ouch!
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ouch
 
lol i remember jaz and zip drives, unreliable overpriced junk. course i had worse, i had the 1gb sparq drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SparQ but they went out of business and their drives were garranteed to fail. it was sad, i barely used it and it failed, i rma'd it like 2 times and then they were bankrupt😛 no one i knew that had their drive didn't have theirs fail either. i jumped to optical and haven't looked back.
 
heh...I still have my Iomega Zip 250 installed in my PC...Haven't used it in 3-4 years, but it's still there...I got a 16 pak of the zip 100 disks several years ago at Costco...WOW! what a deal (at the time) As has already been mentioned, the thumb drives are MUCH more efficient means of storing/transporting data, but at the time, (90's) Zip Disks were FTW!!
 
Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
A couple of years back (wow, its already been years...) I had to submit a project on zip disk. Everyone in the class was whining since no one wanted to pay the $30 the campus computer store was charging for them.
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Me too, except they were only $10 at the campus bookstore and people were still complaining.

When it was Zip-100 and only Zip-100 they were good. That was back in the days though when a 2x CD burner cost $300 and CD's were $2 each. That changed really fast.
 
The REV is pretty cool. Small and portable and easy to store the carts offsite. I saw them at Comdex 3 years ago I think. Talked with them quite a bit about them. The transfer rates are good. Sure the DLT tapes are getting good read/write times too, but when a drive costs $1000....eh...

Tapes aren't super cheap either....but they are a lot cheaper than the REV carts usually so...you will save money there especially if you are doing a lot of archiving.

Now...the REV sounded cool, they had the 35GB carts and I was like...well that's good for when it will be released, but there is going to be a need for more. They told me that they were going to be releasing 60-70GB carts later....well 3 years later and none of that.
 
I had about a dozen 100MB zip discs, of which about half went bad. A few of those were Iomega brand and the rest were Fuji brand.
I always had all kinds of other trouble with the drive too (internal). Sometimes I couldn't read it at all. Sometimes my discs wouldn't eject. Among other problems. Biggest POS hardware I've ever owned.
 
Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Yeah that was the SuperDisk, imation used to make them.

Those iomega REV drives look kind of cool.
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i have and use iomega rev drives all the time. i think they are without question the best device for backing up databases of small businesses.

30 gb / disk 70 gb compressed or something like that.

that is great storage as most small businesses (i mean fewer than 20 employees) can easily do a complete backup of all their data on 30 gb.

plus the iomega rev drive is probably faster than any other media except another HD for backing up data.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: ElFenix
i have an iomega zip-branded cd burner
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Hey, me too. IIRC, it's actually a Plextor... picked it up because of a posting in the HD forum 😛
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Ditto. I think I still have the $100 AR iomega cd-rw. That was HOT for 2000. It served me well.
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