USB Pocket Hard Drives and Network Storage: is this the end of DVD’s and CD’s
Filed under: Computers, Hard Drives, Laptops, Software | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: February 28, 2008 | 2 Comments
It seems as if people are now starting to question why we need optical drives in laptops, this question has arisen since the launch of the Apple MacBook Air as it does not come with one. The thing is Apple decided not to put an optical drive in so they could save space while keeping power down to a minimum.
Myself I do believe that many other laptop makers will follow suit and do away with these optical drives, the thing is why do we need to write to DVD’s and CD’s if there are a host of other storage solutions.
Flash Drives are getting larger all the time, and as they have no moving parts the power drain is almost nothing. Then we have the new range of USB Pocket Hard Drives and also Network Storage as well, so anyone on the network can gain access to the same files.
So is this the end of DVD’s and CD’s?
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Yes
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New Iomega Desktop Hard Drive XL Series Offers Massive Capacity For Your Digital Photos, Music, Video, Work Files and Other Data Intensive Projects
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For Immediate Release
New Iomega Desktop Hard Drive XL Series Offers Massive Capacity For Your Digital Photos, Music, Video, Work Files and Other Data Intensive Projects
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Triple-Interface, One-Terabyte External Drive Delivers Powerful, High-Performance Storage Solution for Today’s Small Business and Digital Home
SAN DIEGO, November 28, 2005- Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in data storage celebrating 25 years of business, today announced the Iomega® Desktop Hard Drive XL Series, a compact four-drive enclosure with 1 terabyte (TB) of capacity*. Designed for creative services professionals and others who require the fastest editing speeds possible in today’s small office and tech-savvy home office, the Iomega XL Series 1TB drive delivers advanced capacity and performance and includes Dantz® Retrospect™ Express software for a complete data backup and disaster recovery solution.
Designed for families and road warriors that have long struggled with the inconvenience of transporting computer-based digital media (audio, video, and still image files), the ScreenPlay™ Multimedia Drive offers new freedom to anyone who wants to enjoy digital video, photo albums, music collections and work files on any TV or A/V receiver-without the need for a computer.
“Projects like video editing push the limits of today’s storage drives, particularly as the market shifts towards high-definition video, so Iomega created the XL Series to erase the bottleneck that a single drive represents in terms of power and performance,” said Lee Williams, Vice President, Product Generation, Iomega Corporation. “Whether it’s editing and managing digital video, photographs, music or work files, the Iomega XL Series hard drive takes advantage of today’s fastest interfaces and most advanced storage technologies to deliver a uniquely powerful device for the next generation of applications.”
Users of the new 1TB Iomega Desktop Hard Drive XL Series can store up to 18,500 hours of music, 4,000,000 photos, or 1,500 hours of video** on a single Iomega XL series device.
The new Iomega XL Series drive connects to the host PC through one of its three built-in interfaces: FireWire® 800, FireWire 400 or USB 2.0 (backwards compatible with USB 1.1). Measuring a svelte 6.42″ x 7.99″ x 12.52″ (W x H x L), the attractive XL Series enclosure takes up little space on the desktop, yet packs incredible power:
Four 250GB* SATA drives, each running at 7200 RPM with 8MB cache for high performance;
Configurable as RAID 0 (striped) for maximum throughput.
“Not everyone needs a terabyte of storage, but an increasing number of today’s digital home computer users and small businesses have put together small networks that are literally running out of space to back up their daily files or work on data-intensive projects,” said Williams. “The XL Series drive gives them an ocean of available space for projects and day-to-day backup, and it also gives them easy disaster recovery through full disk imaging.”
Users who want the maximum performance possible can configure the XL series drive for data striping across four high-capacity SATA disks (RAID 0), providing virtually instant access to data. The new drive also features two pass through FireWire 800 ports and a USB 2.0 expansion port, giving users the flexibility of attaching an additional USB 2.0 hard drive or other peripheral.
Included Software
The new Iomega XL Series drive ships with Dantz Retrospect Express software for data backup and disaster recovery. After an easy setup process, Retrospect Express software offers the choice of incremental backups with multiple revisions, comprehensive backups, and full disk imaging with multiple restore points for quick disaster recovery.
For Windows users, Iomega includes Iomega Automatic Backup Pro software for professional-level backup and disaster recovery for critical data. IAB Pro software effortlessly backs up files on a scheduled or continuous basis. It also gives users professional-level disaster recovery from within Windows, eliminating the need to boot to DOS. Data security is further enhanced with IAB Pro software’s AES file encryption, its ability to back up multiple file revisions, and its easy configuration of scheduled backups if preferred. And with 2.6:1 file compression***, IAB Pro can make each megabyte of storage capacity go further.
Compatibility
The Iomega® Desktop Hard Drive XL Series is compatible with Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional. It is also compatible with Mac OS 10.1 or higher on Mac G3 (blue and white G3 models only), Mac G4 or iMac with built-in USB or FireWire connection.
Price and Availability
The Iomega® Desktop Hard Drive XL Series is now available for $899.95 at http://www.iomega.com, other select online and Web retailers and through the distribution channel. (Price is U.S. suggested retail).
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With the addition of the new Iomega XL Series, Iomega now offers a complete portfolio of external hard drive solutions, including economical 80GB to 250GB USB 2.0 hard drives, flexible dual and triple interface hard drives from 160GB to 400GB in capacity, the innovative new Iomega StorCenter Network Hard Drive in 160GB and 250GB capacities, and convenient, portable small form factor hard drives that utilize 1-inch, 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch hard drives in capacities from 4GB to 120GB. For more information, please log on at http://www.iomega.com.
About Iomega
Iomega Corporation provides easy-to-use, high value storage solutions to help people protect, secure, capture and share their valuable digital information. Iomega’s award-winning storage products include the new Iomega REV™ 35GB Drive, available in multiple interfaces, as well as the 10-cartridge, one-drive REV 1000 Autoloader; Zip® 100MB, 250MB and 750MB Drives; the new Iomega StorCenter™ Network Hard Drives, high-performance Iomega® External Hard Drives including the Iomega Micro Mini Hard Drive, and the Iomega ScreenPlay™ Multimedia Drive; Iomega Mini USB drives, Iomega Mini USB Drives, Micro Mini™ USB Drives, and the Iomega Mixx™ MP3 player; Iomega external CD-RW Drives; Iomega Super DVD Drives and the QuikTouch™ Video Burner; and Iomega Floppy USB-Powered Drives. Iomega simplifies data protection and sharing at home and in the workplace with Iomega Automatic Backup software, Iomega Sync software, HotBurn® CD-recording software, and Active Disk™ technology. For networks, Iomega StorCenter Pro NAS servers offer capacities of 160GB to 1.6TB. For unlimited capacity and anytime, anywhere access, Iomega offers iStorage™ secure online storage. Iomega also offers businesses and consumers a comprehensive data recovery services solution for recovering lost data due to hardware failure, file corruption or media damage. The Company can be reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA (888-446-6342), or on the Web at http://www.iomega.com.
NOTE: The statements contained in this release regarding development, production and distribution of the Iomega Desktop Hard Drive XL Series, anticipated product pricing and availability, expected product performance and specifications, future applications for the new product and all other statements that are not purely historical, are forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All such forward looking statements are based upon information available to Iomega as of the date hereof, and Iomega disclaims any intention or obligation to update any such forward looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the successful completion of product development and testing, market acceptance of, and demand for, the Iomega product, any difficulties encountered in ramping up production or other manufacturing issues, including component availability and pricing, co-development, production, and distribution issues, product pricing and conformity to specifications, dependence upon third party suppliers, competition, intellectual property rights and other risks and uncertainties identified in the reports filed from time to time by Iomega with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including Iomega’s Annual Report on Form 10 K for the year ended December 31, 2004, and its most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.