REV (disk)

Iomega REV is to use an obsolete of Iomega system for data backup.

Iomega REV consists of two parts, the drive and the rewritable storage medium. The exchange medium is a 2.5 "hard drive in a cassette with flüssigkeitsgelagertem spindle drive but without data carrier heads and the regular hard drive components. , The control electronics in the drive.

Drives and matching, removable storage media are currently a maximum memory of 35, 70 or 120 GB ( native) available. The drives and storage media have special devices to protect sensitive magnetic discs from dust. The 120 - GB drives are read-only backward compatible with 70 - GB media, the 70 - GB drives read and write restricted to 35-GB media; the 120 GB drives can not use 35-GB media.

The drives were available as internal models with SCSI, SATA or ATAPI interface and as an external FireWire or USB 2.0 interface. For larger amounts of data Iomega USB Loader offers 280 or 560 GB of total capacity. The average data transfer rate, depending on the port used is about 20 MB / s The storage media formatted with UDF and thus permit as opposed to tape drives random access. The devices are compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

Iomega indicates the durability of the media with 30 years and a 5 year warranty.

REV can be viewed in many ways as a successor to the Iomega Jaz, because the technology is very similar. However, the media are not compatible with each other. REV drives are sometimes referred to as RRD for "Removable Rigid Disk ".

In February 2010, Iomega introduced a production and sales of REV drives. The reason given for this step with a change in customer behavior and the redirection by the parent company EMC, who sees the future of backups rather in the NAS area. The distribution of REV media however, is to be continued beyond the year 2010 and beyond.

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