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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]
Iomega used the DirectCD software from Adaptec to allow UDF drive-letter access to CD-R or CD-RW media. The company released an open standard CD-R drive and CD-RW media under the same ZipCD name. Early models of ZipCD drives were relabeled Philips drives, which were also so unreliable that a class action lawsuit succeeded. [ 17 ]
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.
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 ...
The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 MB floppy disk. The SuperDisk hardware was created by 3M 's storage products group Imation in 1996, [1] with manufacturing chiefly by Matsushita . The SuperDisk had little success in North America; with Compaq, Gateway and Dell being three of only a few ...
The UltraMax line (pictured above) gets the most love, with three tiers of drives now available: the $599 UltraMax Desktop Pro in FireWire 800 / 400 / USB 2.0 and USB 2.0 / eSATA flavors with 1 ...
Bernoulli Box. The Bernoulli Box (or simply Bernoulli, named after Bernoulli's principle) is a high-capacity (for the time) removable floppy disk storage system that is Iomega 's first widely known product. It was released in 1982.
Ditto (drive) An Iomega Ditto internal drive with a 2GB tape and case. The Ditto drive series was a proprietary magnetic tape data storage system released by Iomega during the 1990s. It was marketed as a backup device for personal computers . They were released in several capacities ranging from the original Ditto 250 drive (250MB compressed ...