I credit Oh Gizmo! with this find, it really brightened up an otherwise uneventful day. If you have never heard of the Iomega Zip Drive, then you are probably young enough to have escaped the technology. Lucky, lucky you, I am old enough but can say that I never had the pleasure of owning one. They held 100MB, back when 100MB was an enormous amount of data and the disks were expensive. They also had this little problem called “Click of death” which made us late adopters glad that we didn’t adopt.
With the preamble out of the way, lets get down to business and that business is the Iomega Rev. Judging from the picture, it looks like a drive that you can plug cartridges into. The cartridges look to be miniature hard disk drives. Each one holds 70GB, and is priced to move at $1 per GB. When you combine that with the price of approximately $600 for the external unit, you get something that really has little chance of moving. Blu-Ray or HD DVD disks are only going to get cheaper, while component based stuff like this can only go so low. It could just be that the Rev is the final nail in Iomega’s coffin.
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3 responses
Jan 11, 2008 at 12:04 am
They just don’t seem to get it do they? Weren’t these the same guys that had the Bernoulli Box? I think the Zips were an extension of that technology. They tried the same thing with 1 and 2GB hard disks too. Extremely unreliable. At $1/GB, can’t i just use 1/5 of a 500 GB HD and leave the rest of it blank?
Jan 11, 2008 at 3:21 pm
You guy are not very observant. This thing has been out since 2004.
Jan 22, 2008 at 3:20 am
I”ve been using them for a long time, excellent backup device. Try to drop a external hard disk from 3 feet and see if you can still use it… REV Media certainly will!
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