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Iomega REV 35GB USB 2.0 External Drive - 32927 | List Price: $350.90
Discount Price: $309.99
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Brand: Iomega
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Back up and restore eight times faster than tape
- 35GB Native uncompressed; 90GB compressed
- Virtually unlimited rewriteability and password protection
- Media data transfer rates of 12.7 to 25.4 Mbps
- 30-year shelf life for disk
Lived a good long time, then died without warning. [Posted on 2007-02-21]
We've been using our REV for several years as an accounting system backup device. Simple. Scriptable. Dependable. The only problem was that it rolled over on its back one evening and died. I suppose you can't expect these things to last forever, and ours went a good 3+ years without incident. Now that the price is down in the $260 range, it's a nice little device for nightly backups.
Great alternative to tapes [Posted on 2007-05-15]
This is based on bernoulli(removable hard drive) technology that is random access and is 8 time faster than a type drive in most cases. The cartridges are the same size as a stack of four 720k/1.44mb floppy disks. Works with most tape back up software. There are various models of this drive which include internal vs external and interface type such as USB, SCSI, Firewire, IDE.
Iomega Rev 35GB USB 2.0 External Drive [Posted on 2007-08-02]
Could you send the product Iomega Rev 35GB USB 2.0 External Drive to Brazil ?
Seemed To Crash My Computers [Posted on 2008-03-15]
I love how fast this thing burns.
BUT, it seems it's software has a conflict with most PC's that I know of. First of all, the REV drive lists itself as a CD drive instead of a tape or hard drive. That didn't bother me, but we noticed that when we burned DVD's on 2 different computers, the system crashed. I have lost 3 computers in the last year and our network guy suspects it's the REV drive. He said that their software is quirky and unstable.
BEWARE - serious restoration issues [Posted on 2008-07-21]
On paper this product is ideal for small businesses that want a low cost solution to backing up multiple gigabytes of data.
As described by other reviewers the installation is not always smooth and is by no means intuitive.
I've setup 4 customers with this solution and it seems to backup fine but beware that restoration can present very serious problems if any part of the disk/tape is corrupted.
At the root of these backup disks is a small index file and if damaged in some way it can COMPLETELY prevent the restoration of your data. Even if the data is clearly visible with the appended IOMEGA file extension (*.iab) you can't restore your data.
Iomega provides a small utility to help address this shortcoming but it doesn't work if compression is enabled in the backup software (but compression is enabled by default in the software!).
They do have an advanced data restoration department presumably to help with these problems but they charge hefty fees.
This is really an unconscionable way to design a backup solution. I would consider another vendor, possibly an online solution.
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