http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&file=http%3A//blip.tv/rss/flash/906425&feedurl=http%3A//crunchgear.blip.tv/rss/&autostart=false&brandname=CrunchGear&brandlink=http%3A//crunchgear.blip.tv/ Backing up is kind of boring but deathly necessary. That’s why we like this new 120GB Rev cartridge reader from Iomega. It offers a full-PC backup on a device about as big as an iPod and ensures security thanks to removable media. → Read More
Iomega has an interesting new product called the ScreenPlay HD — interesting in that there’s an included 500GB of storage for just over $200 and interesting in that there’s no Ethernet port or wireless connection (although wireless would certainly add to the price — Ethernet, not nearly as much). If you don’t mind shuffling the ScreenPlay back and forth betwixt your computer and your TV, though, here’s what $218.45 gets you… Enjoy the convenience of watching digital files on your home theatre or TV without being connected to the computer! The Iomega® ScreenPlayTM HD Multimedia Drive 500GB is a cost-effective, high quality multimedia player plus a high capacity storage device for your media collections of photos, videos, and music files. In a compact, sleek black style to complement your home entertainment system, the ScreenPlay Multimedia Drive includes an HDMI connection and is compatible with the latest media formats such as MP3, AC3 (Dolby® Digital Encoding), WAV, WMA, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI/VOB), MPEG-4 (AVI/DiVX 3.11, 4.x, 5.x/XViD) and JPEG. There’s also a 360GB version available for $159.95 — not too shabby. Iomega ScreenPlay HD 500GB [Iomega] via Fareastgizmos.com → Read More
Storage giant EMC is buying Iomega for $213 million in cash, a slight premium above its $200 million market cap at the close of trading today. Iomega, which makes portable hard drives and Zip drives, will become the core of EMC’s consumer and small business storage device business. During the 1990s, Iomega was one of the original tech momentum stocks, trading as high as $114. Today, it closed at $3.64. The hardware game just ain’t what it used to be. Perhaps EMC could combine Iomega with Mozy, an online storage service it bought last year for $76 million. The trend in consumer storage, as with consumer software, is to offer both online and offline capabilities. → Read More
Everyone remembers the Iomega Zip Drive – we all had one, it’s okay to say it. I’d lost track of the company for a while, but they’re striking back with a new version of the device, which probably will get mixed reactions. It’s called the Rev and it’s essentially a HDD split in half – the head and mechanisms are in the reader, and in each removable cartridge is just a platter, which holds 70GB. They were proud of the cartridges’ durability, and the guy repeatedly slammed the cartridge onto the table to emphasize it. They also had some tasteful little external drives; the black one below is 250GB. The big silver thing is their take on the external/internal thing; two hot-swappable drives stuck in an eSATA-capable Mac Pro-like enclosure for 1.5TB of storage. In any case, they seemed like solid pieces of hardware, but I’ll wait for performance data before dropping any bills. → Read More
Iomega’s newest MiniMax and UltraMax hard drives were designed with Leopard in mind. Both drives come preformated with HFS+, the file system used by Leopard (and previous version of OS X). So if you ever wanted to use the Time Machine system backup feature, literally all you’d have to do is plug the drive in and click “use drive for Time Machine,” no converting from Windows-friendly FAT32 or NTFS file systems required. Both drives should be available today barring a FedEx strike or something, with the MiniMax starting at $180 for 500GB and the UltraMax at $190 for 500GB. UltraMax [Iomega via Electronista] → Read More
Iomega unveiled a plethora of external hard drives at Apple Expo including a 1.5TB drive. Said drive resembles the MacPro. The UltraMax Pro sports two SATA-II drives with RAID 0, I or JBOD configurations and a handful of interfaces (two FireWire 800, one FireWire 400 and one USB 2.0). You also have the option of picking up an e-SATA version with a USB interface. Each drive is $600. → Read More
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