Iomega REV Autoloader 1000

[Chris Gohlke]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=1558' target='_blank'>http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=1558</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Iomega has been busy of late promoting its REV removable storage products as the ideal alternative to tape backup and the latest REV Autoloader 1000 moves it into direct competition with tape based autoloader devices in the SME marketplace. Equally suited to the desktop or in a rack cabinet this sleek 2U chassis has a single internal REV drive surrounded by a carousel with ten slots allowing it to offer a maximum storage capacity of 350GB."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/iomega.jpg" /> <br /><br />OK, I don't get it. On top of a pretty hefty price tag for the unit, according to Iomega's site, these disks are about $400 each for 35 GB. With 250 GB disk drives becoming pretty inexpensive, seems that one could do much better backing up to a redundant set of drives.

[Kevin Jackson]

The other thing is that each disk is 35Gb, but can hold up to 90Gb with compression.

I have used the REV drive as a backup for a client and it really is a slick, easy to implement and reliable backup solution. Not to mention searching for a backed up file on a REV disk is much faster than on a traditional tape backup.

This is a very exciting piece of equipment.

[Chris Gohlke]

Dude! These disks are like so totally $59.99 apeice. And totally $199.99 for a set of 4 disks. And like, the point is you can have daily backups you can move off premisis.

That changes the proposition quite a bit. I went back to the press release where I found the $400 price and noticed that it was almost 2 years old, so they have pulled the prices down quite a bit.

[Citezein]

That changes the proposition quite a bit. I went back to the press release where I found the $400 price and noticed that it was almost 2 years old, so they have pulled the prices down quite a bit.

The disks were never $400 a piece. The single USB/Firewire drive for them was/is $400. That usually comes with one cartridge. You can buy the Rev disks themselves for about $45 - $50 each. I use the system and it works quite well for backup and archival of media items. I'd like a bit bigger disks, but they're coming out with 70GB disks in the near future.