Iomega® REV® Backup drives and removable disks provide a reliable, easy-to-use backup and disaster recovery solution to safely secure critical data. The award winning Iomega REV family of products is available in 120GB (240GB compressed**), 70GB (140GB compressed**), and 35GB (70GB compressed**) capacities per disk.

 

Overview

Iomega REV Backup drives and removable disks provide a reliable, easy-to-use backup and disaster recovery solution to safely secure critical data. The award winning Iomega REV family of products is available in 120GB (240GB compressed**), 70GB (140GB compressed**), and 35GB (70GB compressed**) capacities per disk. REV technology offers the ease of use, reliability and value you've come to expect from Iomega. REV products have the right capacity and features to meet the specific storage needs of small or medium sized businesses.

Plus...Iomega REV removable hard disk solutions include industry leading and award winning backup and disaster recovery software and are also compatible with other major 3rd party backup software programs such as those from Symantec (Veritas), CA, Yosemite Technologies, EMC, etc.

What You Get:

• REV Drive
• One REV disk (in Plastic case with disk label)
• One USB 2.0 cable
• One Power supply
• One Solution CD
• Quick Start Guide
• One year warranty on drive. Five year warranty on disks.
• Software provided under license

Tech Specs

System Requirements

PC Users :

• 350MHz Pentium processor or higher
• USB 2.0 connection
• 512MB RAM
• Drive only: Microsoft Windows XP Home/Professional/Professional x64, 2000 Professional, Vista (Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate)
• Retrospect Express for PC: Microsoft Windows XP Home/Professional/Professional x64, 2000 Professional, Vista (Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate)
• CD-ROM drive
• 1GB hard drive space required to install software depending on applications and options selected (excludes temporary cache)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher Netscape Navigator 6.1, Apple Safari 1.2 or higher (to view User's Manual and download Iomega Software.)

Mac Users :

• Drive only: Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
• Retrospect Express for Mac: Mac OS 10.4 and higher
• USB 2.0 connection
• 512MB RAM
• CD-ROM drive
• 1GB hard drive space required to install software depending on applications and options selected (excludes temporary cache)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher Netscape Navigator 6.1, Apple Safari 1.2 or higher (to view User's Manual and download Iomega Software.)

Specifications

Drive attributes

Capacity:
• Native: 120GB*
• High compression w/included software: 240GB
• Usable data bytes: 120,054,872,064

Interface/connection type:
• One (1) USB 2.0 connection on the back of the drive
• What is USB?
• Backward compatible with USB 1.1 connections.
  
  Note: The Iomega REV USB drive is not host powered. You must use in the included power supply.



Included Cable:
• One (1) 3ft (1m) standard USB cable.

Weight:
• Drive: 0.86 lbs. (.39 Kg)
• Disk: 2.58 ounces (73 grams)
Dimensions (L x W x H):
• Drive: 6.2" x 4.4" x 1.3"
• Disk: 2.95" x 3.03" x 0.39"

Configuration:
• Bytes per Sector: 2,048
• User Logical Sectors: 58,620,543
• Track Density (normal): 1,845,000 tracks/inch
• Linear Density (max): 1,216,000 bits/inch
• Areal Density (max): 224.89 Gigabits/square inch
• Number of Heads: 2
• Head Type: TUMR
• Number of Disks: 1
• Substrate Type: Smooth Glass disk
• Servo: Embedded
• Zones: 18
• Data Recording Method (coding): 48/50 Modified E. 2. PRML

Power requirements:
• Power Supply: 5.0 +/- .25 V D.C., up to 1.2 amps continuous current

Performance

Seek time:
• Minimum (single track): 2.5 ms (read), 3.0 ms (write)
• Average: 12 ms (read), 13 ms (write)
• Maximum: 25 ms
Latency:
• 7.1 ms
Spindle Speed:
• 4000 rpm - for 120GB disks
• 4200 rpm - for reading 70GB disks
Start Time:
• 15 sec (power on to ready)
Stop Time (including eject):
• 6 sec
Native Drive Transfer Rate (USB 2.0):
• Burst (USB 2.0): 60 MB/sec
• Max. Data Transfer Rate (outer disk): 35 MB/sec
• Max. Data Transfer Rate (inner disk): 18 MB/sec

Note: Actual speeds may be limited by the bus type - for instance, the transfer rate of many USB 2.0 host controller chips do not exceed 15 MBytes/second.

Reliability and Service

MTBF:
• 400,000 hours
Unrecoverable Data Error Rate:
• (projected) 1 error in 10^15 bits transferred
Cartridge Life:
• 2,000 insertion and removal cycles
Drive Life:
• 15,000 insertion and removal cycles
Drive Service Life:
• Approx. 5 years
Cartridge Shelf Life:
• 30 years
Typical Insertion Force:
• 1.5 kgf (3.3 lbf)

Operating conditions

Temperature:
• Ambient Operating Environment (non-condensing): 0 to 60 degrees C. (32 to 140 degrees F)
• Ambient Non-operating Environment: -40 to 65 degrees C. (-40 to 149 degrees F)
• Max Temperature Gradient: 12 degrees C. per hour (22 degress F. per hour)
Humidity:
• Ambient Operating Humidity (non-condensing): 8 to 90% R.H.
• Ambient Non-operating Humidity (non-condensing): 5 to 95% R.H.
• Max Wet Bulb Temperature - Operating: 29.0 degrees C. (84 degrees F.)
• Max Wet Bulb Temperature - Non-operating: 40.0 degrees C. (104 degrees F.)
• Electro Static Discharge: Up to 8KV air discharge, or 4KV contact
Vibration:
• Operating Reads/Writes: 0.4 g (zero to peak; 5-20 Hz) / 0.2 g (zero to peak; 20-200 Hz)
• Sequential Reads (internal unit): .5 g (zero to peak; 5-200 Hz)
• Non-operating Disk: 2.5 g (zero to peak; 5-500 Hz)
• Non-operating Drive: 1.3 g (zero to peak; 5-27 Hz) / 2.0 g (zero to peak; 27-60 Hz) / 2.5 g (zero to peak; 60-500 Hz)
Shock:
• Operating: 60 g (2 ms half sine)
• Non-operating Disk: 400 g (2 ms half sine)
• Non-operating Drive: 200 g (2 ms half sine)
• Typical Cartridge Drop (outside of case): up to 1.22 meters (48 inches) onto commercial grade carpet
• Cartridge Drop (inside of case): up to 1.52 meters (60 inches) onto hard floor
Altitude:
• Operating: -300 to 3,048 meters (10,000 feet)
• Non-operating: -300 to 12,192 meters (40,000 feet)

Power Characteristics

Drive Supply Voltage:
• 5.0 V
Seek (Peak):
• 1270mA current draw; 6.35W power consumption
Startup (Peak):
• 980mA current draw; 4.9W power consumption
Eject (Peak):
• 700mA current draw; 3.5W power consumption
Continuous Writes (RMS):
• 840mA current draw; 4.2W power consumption
Continuous Reads (RMS):
• 830mA current draw; 4.15W power consumption
Random Read-Writes (RMS):
• 855mA current draw; 4.3W power consumption
Idle (RMS) spin:
• 840mA current draw; 4.2W power consumption
Idle (RMS) no spin:
• 380mA current draw; 1.9W power consumption

Additional Features

• Hard Disk Drive like performance
• Data Buffering
• Burst transfer rate up to 100 MB/sec
• Media data transfer rates of 18 to 35 MB/sec (buffer to/from media)
• Automatic reallocation
• Electro-Mechanical head latch
• Head load/unload mechanism
• ID-less format
• Multi-zone recording
• Enhanced ECC
• 12 msec average seek
• Adaptive power save control
• Embedded servo control
• Logical block addressing
• MMC-4 Multi-media command set