Iomega Cans DCT Technology

[Janak Parekh]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/23/iomega_q2/' target='_blank'>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/23/iomega_q2/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"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)."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/parekh-20030724-iomega.jpg" /><br /><br />Ouch. We posted on the DCT tech <a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15558">some time ago</a>, 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?

[dh]

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.

[dean_shan]

Does anyone want to place bets on when Iomega finally breathes its last?

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.

[Jonathan1]

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 (http://grc.com/tip/codfaq1.htm). I took said Zip drive and exchanged it for a new one. Which in turn developed the same Click of Death (http://grc.com/tip/codfaq1.htm) 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.

[Steven Cedrone]

I give it til 2007 at the latest before they call it quits and all I can say is good riddance. &lt;SNIP> Never again will I use anything IOMEGA.

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...

Steve

[Ryan Joseph]

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.

[Zack Mahdavi]

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.

[Janak Parekh]

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...
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.

--janak

[Jonathan1]

I give it til 2007 at the latest before they call it quits and all I can say is good riddance. &lt;SNIP> Never again will I use anything IOMEGA.

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...

Steve


Do a google search on click of death and see the results. This wasn't a limited case.

[lapchinj]

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...
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.

--janak
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.

Jeff-

[IpaqMan2]

Too Funny.....

I still use my Zip Drive and LOVE IT. I've never had any problems with Zip at all. Though of course now I don't use them for the same purpose as I did back in the past..(mainly storing things before buring them), now I use my Zip drive to make backups to my PDA stuff. All my desktop clients and different software for my PDA I back up on to my Zip drive/disk, just incase my PC kicks the bucket.. I trust my Zip drive way more than my HDDs.

[Steven Cedrone]

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.

I'm not saying it didn't happen, nor am I saying I never saw it happen. I'm just saying in the the 100 or so drives we had (and that I was responsible for), we didn't have any failures...

Oh, and I've never had an SD card fail either! :wink:

Do a google search on click of death and see the results. This wasn't a limited case.

Don't have to search! I was researching it at the time when the fecal matter hit the oscillating cooling apparatus (when the drives were everywhere). I Never said it was a "limited" case (define limited), only that a large majority of the drives did not have this problem. Either way, it certainly was not as bad as you make it out to be! What I am saying is that I never encountered the problem myself with my machines or any machines that I was responsible for...

Steve

[ppc_kiwi]

I had this Jazz drive a long time ago. It connects via printer port and it's so slow. It conflicts also with other devices I have. Difficult to setup. Anyway, I kept it and just remembered upon reading this subject.

I think they'll go bust either way. With consumers, we have SD, MMC, CF etc.. With business, we have bigger storage players. :wink: