Iomega launches 20GB portable hard drive

NEW DELHI: Iomega Corporation, a company dealing in reliable portable data
storage, has introduced a rugged and highly portable external hard drive
designed to facilitate higher capacity data storage, transfer, backup and
recovery, the sleek new HDD 20GB Portable Hard Drive with ultra-fast USB2.0
connectivity.



Iomega HDD Portable Hard Drive would be available from the first week of June,
2002 at all Iomega authorized resellers at a suggested retail price of Rs
12,200.

The new 20GB USB2.0 Portable Hard Drive will come with a free USB2.0 PCI card,
which retails at a normal price of Rs 1,500. The Portable Hard Drive is shipped
with a one-year limited warranty.



Iomega’s new drive for Windows and Macintosh users is hot swappable and
plug-and-play, which gives users the convenience of connecting the peripheral to
a desktop or laptop computer without rebooting or having to install the device.
Actual user transfer rates as high as 48MB per second make it practical and
affordable for sharing and editing video and image files, developing business
presentations and working with large data sets.



The Iomega HDD Portable Hard Drive builds on the Iomega Peerless drive. Weighing
only 231 grams, the Iomega HDD Portable Hard Drive’s sleek design and
detachable interface module combine high shock resistance with a mobile hard
drive that is slim enough to fit in most shirt pockets and any laptop bag. The
Iomega HDD Portable Hard Drive is rugged enough to withstand a drop from a
50-inch high shelf to industrial carpet.



The drive also comes with easy-to-use software applications that help users
manage storage backup and recovery. These applications include the Iomega
QuikSync software, which provides automatic on-the-fly backup, as well as
disaster recovery software to back up and retrieve data, system files and
registry information.