Iomega Rev drives

Does anyone have experience with this product? It's essentially a 35GB removable harddrive/cartridge for backups. Good? Bad? Ugly?

I'd like it as a backup solution instead of another harddrive, because I could take it offsite.

crachoar said:

Personally, I think everything Iomega makes is rubbish. Everything is a gimmick for those guys. Remember zip disks? Man, what a pain...


Basically, if you put down $400 on that Rev Drive instead of that hot Lacie drive, you should beat yourself with spoons....I mean seriously...34GB vs. 400GB?

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Thanks for the assessment. Sounds like it's not a great idea. Is the better solution simply to buy two Lacies and move one off site for super protection? The advantage of the Rev disks is they're easy to take elsewhere and are (supposedly) less risky to transport.

I kind of liked Zip disks, at least in principle. The problem for them was that CD burners got good and cheap really quickly. Obviously burning a CD is a better solution, but we didn't always have it. (Then again, I liked floppies at one point too, but stopped using them close to ten years ago, once emailing became easier.)