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Iomega Corporation. Iomega Corporation (later LenovoEMC) [3] [4] [5] was a company that produced external, portable, and networked data storage products. Established in the 1980s in Roy, Utah, United States, Iomega sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks, including the Zip drive floppy disk system. [6]
The Zip disk media. The back of a parallel-port ZIP-100 with printer pass-through. The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was announced by Iomega in 1994 and began shipping in March 1995. [1] Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then ...
Internal and external 1GB Iomega Jaz drives with media. The Jaz drive [1] [2] is a removable hard disk storage system sold by the Iomega company from 1995 to 2002.. Following the success of the Iomega Zip drive, which in its original version stores data on high-capacity floppy disks with 100 MB nominal capacity, and later 250 and then 750 MB, the company developed and released the Jaz drive.
The original Iomega® Zip™ Drive marked a quantum leap in portable storage when it debuted in 1995. Iomega launched its first network storage product in 2003. Iomega was acquired by EMC in 2008.
The original Bernoulli Alpha drive spins a PET film floppy disk at about 1500 rpm, [1] 1 μm over a read-write head, using Bernoulli's principle to pull the flexible disk towards the head as long as the disk is spinning. In theory this makes the Bernoulli drive more reliable than a contemporary hard disk drive, since a head crash is impossible.
PocketZip. The PocketZip is a medium-capacity floppy disk storage system introduced by Iomega in 1999. It uses very small (2×2×0.7in, 5×5×1.8cm) 40 MB disks. [1] It was originally known as the "Clik!" drive until the click of death class action lawsuit regarding mass failures of Iomega's original Zip drives, after which it was renamed ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Iomega storage devices" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Zip drive This page ...
A standard ZIP100 disk. Click of death is a term that had become common in the late 1990s referring to the clicking sound in disk storage systems that signals a disk drive has failed, often catastrophically. [1] The clicking sound itself arises from the unexpected movement of the disk's read/write actuator. At startup, and during use, the disk ...