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So, I just ordered this on the spot.  I talked to Ken Getz and I think he's ordered one too.  It may put Iomega back on top.

It's WAY smaller than you think.  I played with it at the Iomega booth.  It's a 35 Gig cartridge (and of course you can compress it.  I wish they wouldn't sell it as a 35G/90G cartridge.  Hell, if I just stored text files it would be a 35G/1T cartridge.  But I'm storing already compressed JPEGs and Digital Video.  Dorks.)

It's USB 2.0 - which I'm digging.  It's just Firewire, but it's USB. ;)  After being screwed by the Windows Firewire stack twice, I'm trying USB 2.0.

The thing that sold me on this Rev is simple: They keep the Drive Heads out of the cartridge.  You can toss the cartridge around (it's very solid) and the heads stay in the drive itself.  It's really like a Zip Drive, except 35 Gigs - and the cartridge is only $50 each.  That's awesome.  I'm going to backup and SAVE EVERYTHING.




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