Almost perfect EX-1/3 backup solution

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Nik Manning

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Iomega Rev 120gb Drive This allows you to backup your video on to a harddrive without any moving parts. $75 per 120gb harddrive, but you need a $500 player. Kind of Blu-rayish in pricing but more storage in one platter. Interesting
 
...And 3 times the price of hard drives - maybe make two redundant copies on SATA drive mechanisms instead?
 
yep but much more reliable that harddrives and smaller. I agree with harddrives, but this is just a alternate route. They are based of laptop harddrives.
 
I can't believe iomega is still around.

And they're still making floppy drives and 100mb ZIP drives!
 
It might be completely unfair at this point, but any time I hear the name Iomega, I always remember how many drives (and disks full of data) I lost to "The Click of Death". Kids....ask your parents. ;-)
 
The disks may have no moving parts, but in order for your data to last 30 years (as iomega claims) you have to keep one of those drives running for 30 years. Seems unlikely.

Anyone try to find a Jaz drive lately?
 
I lost well over $2000 in Jazz Drives/Disks. They all started turning to glue. Iomega got out of a major lawsuit by the skin of their teeth mainly because technology moved on and bigger hard drives, firewire and other new technologies came out. I think people just moved on to new toys rather than go after Iomega. It certainly does not make me feel good about investing more money - AND DATA - on any of their little disks.

Also - what makes you say that there are no moving parts?
 
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I lost well over $2000 in Jazz Drives/Disks. They all started turning to glue. Iomega got out of a major lawsuit by the skin of their teeth mainly because technology moved on and bigger hard drives, firewire and other new technologies came out. I think people just moved on to new toys rather than go after Iomega. It certainly does not make me feel good about investing more money - AND DATA - on any of their little disks.

Also - what makes you say that there are no moving parts?
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The Rev drives are based on laptop drives and the moving parts are removed and basically put into the rev drive player. So the rev player spins up not the rev disk.
 
Nik Manning said:
The Rev drives are based on laptop drives and the moving parts are removed and basically put into the rev drive player. So the rev player spins up not the rev disk.
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How is that better than a hard drive? The rev mechanism, exposed to more elements, can't possibly be as reliable as a sealed drive mechanism.

in 30 years you'll have disks and nothing to "play" them on. I think two or three redundant copies on standard drive mechanisms (three mechanisms for the price of 1 rev disk) is a far safer idea.
 
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