Iomega is getting back into the removable hard drive market, years after relegating its Jaz drive to its legacy product file.
The new release, as-yet unbranded and known for now as the Removable Rigid Disk (RRD) system, will offer 35GB per disk. Each 2.5in disk is housed in a cartridge "smaller than a deck of playing cards", Iomega claims. The RRD drive will fit into a standard 3.5in bay, the company said. Iomega will pitch the system at back-up applications, particularly as an alternative to tape back-up systems. The company reckons its system will be cheaper to run that tape, offer better data fidelity and faster back-up times. Iomega claims a 20GB system image would take ten minutes to back up, but we'd note that copying in images isn't the same thing as backing up a working drive, and that Iomega's figure assumes the user has data compression turned on.
Source : The Register
The new release, as-yet unbranded and known for now as the Removable Rigid Disk (RRD) system, will offer 35GB per disk. Each 2.5in disk is housed in a cartridge "smaller than a deck of playing cards", Iomega claims. The RRD drive will fit into a standard 3.5in bay, the company said. Iomega will pitch the system at back-up applications, particularly as an alternative to tape back-up systems. The company reckons its system will be cheaper to run that tape, offer better data fidelity and faster back-up times. Iomega claims a 20GB system image would take ten minutes to back up, but we'd note that copying in images isn't the same thing as backing up a working drive, and that Iomega's figure assumes the user has data compression turned on.
Source : The Register
