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  • From: ron thigpen <ron AT fuzzsonic.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Iomega REV
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:11:42 -0400

Tony Spencer wrote:

Has anyone used one of these things yet? It seems like the perfect
economical backup solution.

I haven't used one, but I'd have to question the economics. Iomega is fudging the drive size numbers in a couple of ways. It's not a 90GB cartridge.

It's nominally a 35GB cartridge if you buy into the nonsense "marketing math" that says 1GB equals 1,000,000,000 bytes instead of 1,073,741,824. If you don't, it's a slightly more than 32GB cartridge.

And if you're backing up audio, video or image data you won't get anything like a 2.6:1 compression ratio. More like 1:1.

Current retail on the drive housing is about $300, with cartriges going for about $50.

Can't see how this could compete with an external HDD or multi HDD enclosure. An 80GB 7200rpm IDE HDD can be had for about $65. These are competitive in $/GB, save cartridge swapping, are upgradable with commodity hardware, etc. It will also have to compete somewhat with 12x (and now 16x) DVD writers.

I could see how this would work if your backups fit on one cartrige and you really wanted to send a backup offsite.

--rt




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