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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael Coley who wrote (35484)	11/13/1997 12:24:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

All - Certainly this announcement is a little underwhelming in a few ways. No major OEM, shipping not expected until second half of 1998. I'm hoping that's a conservative time frame. BTW, Rocky, that would mean that the drive would ship 1 1/2 years after it was first announced. About what SyQuest did with SyJet. Not two years late. I don't know where you get that. Nonetheless, besides a much-needed name change, there are some interesting improvements in technical specifications for Clik!. I'm including the specs below. One thing I noticed is that previously, n.hand drive height was given as .45 something", or almost half an inch. Clik! is specified at around a quarter inch. Not to mention that a 40MB capacity means a cost factor of 25 cents a megabyte. Flash will get cheaper, but it sure as hell won't be that cheap anytime soon. From the Iomega web site: High-capacity, low-priced digital storage for mobile devices Cartridge storage capacity ÿ 40MB* Cartridge spare capacity ÿ 1.2MB MSRP ÿ $9.95 Small size-designed for today's portable products Dimensions Drive (LxWxH) ÿ 3.37in. x 2.126in. x .256in. Drive Weight ÿ 2 ounces Cartridge (LxWxH) ÿ 2.16in. x 1.98in. x .077in. (54.9mm x 50.1mm x 1.95mm) Cartridge weight ÿ .35 oz (10 grams) High performance for fast data transfers Performance Average seek time ÿ Less than 25ms Sustained transfer rate ÿ 700KB/sec avg. 1000KB/sec max. 500KB/sec min. Rotational speed ÿ 2941 rpm Latency (average rotational delay) ÿ 10.2 ms Average start/stop time ÿ .6/.5 sec. Able to survive the environmental extremes of mobile devices Operating Conditions Temperature Operating ÿ -20 to +65c Storage ÿ -22 to +52c Shipping ÿ -40 to +65c ÿ Relative humidity Operating ÿ 10% to 90% Non-Operating ÿ 10% to 90% ÿ Vibration Operating ÿ 1.0g P.P 5-17Hz Non-Operating ÿ 1.3g P.P 5-27Hz ÿ Shock Operating ÿ 100g, « sine wave for 3msec Non-Operating ÿ 300g, « sine wave for 3msec ÿ Altitude Operating ÿ Up to 15,000 ft. (4,572m) Extremely durable and reliable Reliability/Service MTBF ÿ 100,000 hours Disk estimated shelf life ÿ At least 10 years Designed to be extremely power-efficient; uses intelligent power management. Voltage Operating ÿ 3.3 volts *40MB capacity where 1MB = 1 million bytes. The capacity reported by your operating system may vary.