07-28-2004, 01:00 AM
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Iomega Cans DCT Technology
"Iomega is to ditch its consumer-oriented 1.5GB micro removable drive system, DCT, and focus on business products in a bid to recover from its financial woes, the storage company said this week. It also posted a widening $19.8m (38 cents a share) loss on sales totalling $77.6m for its second fiscal quarter, which ended on 17 June 2004. Those figures mark a fall in revenue of 23 per cent on the year-ago quarter, when it lost $4.4m (nine cents a share)."
Ouch. We posted on the DCT tech some time ago, and most of you guys were accurately skeptical. Flash, CF Microdrives, and optical solutions have essentially taken over the entire removable media market. Does anyone want to place bets on when Iomega finally breathes its last?
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07-28-2004, 01:17 AM
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They still around? I actually came across a couple of their Zip Disks this weekend while sorting through some old stuff. I've had nothing to use them on for years.
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07-28-2004, 01:25 AM
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Re: Iomega Cans DCT Technology
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
Does anyone want to place bets on when Iomega finally breathes its last?
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I think they focus on CD & DVD burnings. Then they will add external HDs to their product line. They will continue for years as a minor player.
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07-28-2004, 01:29 AM
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I give it til 2007 at the latest before they call it quits and all I can say is good riddance. I've never liked IOMEGA. In fact I lost about 200MB back in '97 or whenever the Zip drive first came out to the Click of Death. I took said Zip drive and exchanged it for a new one. Which in turn developed the same Click of Death at which point the drive did not make it back to Best Buy but had a close interaction with a brick wall at high speed and then met the sweet embrace of a garbage can. Never again will I use anything IOMEGA.
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07-28-2004, 02:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Jonathan1
I give it til 2007 at the latest before they call it quits and all I can say is good riddance. <SNIP> Never again will I use anything IOMEGA.
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I used Iomega products for years (Zip and Jazz) and never had any problems with them. I suppose it's like the great "SD card spontaniously hoses itself" debate. It happens to some, but not a large majority of the users...
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07-28-2004, 02:29 AM
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I've been using the same Iomega CD-RW drive for several years. I just got a DVD-RW drive, but the Iomega is staying in the system as a second drive. I love it. It's been a faithful drive for this long.
I doubt they'll let themselves die away completely. They'll pick up on the trends and continue, but not at the position they once held.
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07-28-2004, 02:51 AM
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I think they'll drop the consumer market and go where the money really lies... the business market. Seriously, the business and education markets use so much storage and need extra-reliable storage systems. If Iomega keeps up with the new REV drives, Network storage, and tape drives, they'll be around for a long time. Plus, they can make a mighty profit off of these devices.
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07-28-2004, 03:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Steven Cedrone
I used Iomega products for years (Zip and Jazz) and never had any problems with them. I suppose it's like the great "SD card spontaniously hoses itself" debate. It happens to some, but not a large majority of the users...
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In this case, though, a case could be made for a majority. I've seen numerous click-of-death cases on both Zip and Jaz units, although I haven't seen a single SD card fail. I liked my Iomega units while they lasted, though -- they were indeed immensely useful.
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07-28-2004, 03:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Steven Cedrone
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I give it til 2007 at the latest before they call it quits and all I can say is good riddance. <SNIP> Never again will I use anything IOMEGA.
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I used Iomega products for years (Zip and Jazz) and never had any problems with them. I suppose it's like the great "SD card spontaniously hoses itself" debate. It happens to some, but not a large majority of the users...
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Do a google search on click of death and see the results. This wasn't a limited case.
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07-28-2004, 05:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
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Originally Posted by Steven Cedrone
I used Iomega products for years (Zip and Jazz) and never had any problems with them. I suppose it's like the great "SD card spontaniously hoses itself" debate. It happens to some, but not a large majority of the users...
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In this case, though, a case could be made for a majority. I've seen numerous click-of-death cases on both Zip and Jaz units, although I haven't seen a single SD card fail. I liked my Iomega units while they lasted, though -- they were indeed immensely useful.
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I still use Iomega's Zip drives and have been using them since the Zip100 and Jazz (which I don't think offers much anymore). I've had a few Zip disks go bad over the years but I've also had a number of hard drives go bad also. I've had to reformat a couple CF cards over the past 2 years because they couldn't read but never had one go bad entirly like I've heard some people mention.
Hard drives have been the worst for me and for all the hundreds of gig that I have is now all mirrored (at least my development drives) or else a mirror image of the ones not mirrored. So Zip hasn't been bad. I've lost more on CF cards than Zip.
All-in-all I think that Iomega has moved along with the times and we should see some new products. Besides the new tape drives that they came out with are really good and easy on the pocketbook.
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