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REV rev three
posted on 27 February 2008 14:25
Iomega will launch the third generation of its removable REV hard drive at CeBIT.
Removable hard drives are offered as a substitute for tape storage providing the off-site vaulting capability of tape combined with disk access speed.
The first and second generation REV drives offered 35GB and 70GB capacity respectively. REV one offered a 25Mbit/s I/O rate and REV II increased that to 30Mbit/s.
We can expect a doubling of capacity to 140GB and another increase in I/O rate, hopefully to something more than 35Mbit/s.
The main competing product is ProStor's RDX removable disk which is also sold by Tandberg and Dell. This is a 2.5-inch format hard drive with capacities of 40GB, 80GB, 120GB, 160GB and 300GB.
Both REV and RDX autoloader products are available.
A 70GB disk costs $69. A 300GB RDX costs $230 - $300 depending upon the reseller. An 80GB RDX can cost up to $169.
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