Iomega REV 120GB Backup Drive

Data industry storage has known over the years for many changes, some simply disappear while the effects of concentration have pushed for example Seagate and Matrox to get closer. Today, while storing data is more than ever an absolute necessity, acting historical with Iomega has become more difficult than before to impose their solutions. It must be said that the glorious era of ZIP drives are over and Iomega was bought by EMC, the optical revolution has heavily reduced the price of megabyte storage, and increasing the density of hard drives is gone with a pair of inexorable decline of their cost.

This state of affairs to introduce REV, the solution of Iomega's removable storage rather for advanced users and businesses. For where once proposed Iomega external storage solutions removable cartridge for the general public, even now offers Iomega external hard drives. Launched in the year 2004, REV technology evolves gradually and if Iomega proposed to launch a storage solution that can accommodate 35 GB of data per cartridge, there is now talk of 120 GB cartridges, cartridges whose access time and flow are advertised as close to a hard disk. Small overview of the latest development of technology Iomega REV.

At the heart of REV: DRP

In its previous incarnation of REV technology we proposed to store 70 GB of data on a cartridge. Iomega profits from the year 2008 to double that capacity, or nearly since its last REV drive can store up to 120 GB of data, uncompressed on a single cartridge. It is always within the REV technology DRP (or Removable Rigid Disk), which is in many ways similar to technology used in 2.5-inch hard drives. For all of REV trick is to use the technology of hard drives for performance aspect by making it extensible as optical media via removable cartridges.

To do this, the cartridge REV therefore magnetic trays on which are stored data but also the engine, while the read heads and electronics are located in the drive. This feature engine included in the cartridge is supposed to reduce the risk of contamination of trays. Indeed, on the old technology JAZ Iomega, the engine was in drive and cartridge therefore had a hole to cause the rotation of trays, hole through which could enter any kind of dust. Quite dense, REV cartridges are supposed to be watertight and resist shocks (up to 1.5 meters).

Alongside the choice of integrating the engine directly in the cartridges, the DRP technology relies on different areas of leakage within the device while a filtration system expels air at each insertion of a cartridge air cartridge before loading heads: filter cartridges inside then recover dust. And if that was not enough, the player operates a self-cleaning of its read heads on quite a regular basis. Also in order to ensure a flawless reliability of data, technology REV based on a circuit with two levels of error correction for a maximum integrity.