Not much to talk about here. Iomega just launched eGo drives in four colors with up to 500GB capacity. The 500GB model is $135 while the 250GB is $85. They run on USB power and include back-up and virus protection software right on the disk. They should be available right about nowish or early June.
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Reviewing a NAS is probably not at the top of my list of things to do, but the Iomega ix2 is a dead simple network storage solution that works well. The model I reviewed is the 2TB variety and I finally caved and started backing up my files. Even though I set it up RAID 1 style, 1TB was ample enough to handle all of my content with plenty of room to spare. I wouldn’t recommend this to the more veteran folk, but it’s ideal for novices looking for a simple to use network drive solution.
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To be fair, you don’t have to own a MacBook Air in order to purchase Iomega’s eGo Helium portable hard drive. It is, however, “a perfect match for the new MacBook Air notebook” according to Iomega. It’s even pre-formatted to the HFS+ file system.

The drive itself has 320GB of storage space, weighs less than half a pound, and requires no external power supply. You’ll also get some software included: EMC Retrospect and MozyHome (2GB version), although you’ll have to download it. Oh, and you can get 2GB of Mozy service for free no matter who you are. So not a huge deal there. You’ll get a license for the EMC software, though, which is nice.

It’ll be available in October with an MSRP of $149.99, although it’s currently listed at $142.49 on Iomega’s site (not in stock yet, of course).

Ike has you rained in for the weekend and you already folded enough Netflix envelopes? Grab that IOMEGA Zip Drive at the bottom of your parts box and throw some new life into it. The video above will guide you through the steps needed to turn the unused device into a hard-drive enclosure, project case, bank, and even a little splayed out mannequin. Come on, you know you wanna grab that flat-head and tear something apart this weekend.

via Makezine

As many of you are no doubt aware, I do my fair share of downloading. Movies, music, terrible TV shows, and so on. Usenet, BitTorrent, plain ol’ HTTP, whatever. So be it. Those of you who read the site closely—God bless you—also know that I have a rather ghetto entertainment setup: an iMac connected to a TV via HDMI, and good-enough surround sound system via toslink. It does the job for this cheap, foolhardy hack, and it should be able to do the job for most of you, too. Most of you, provided you don’t mind stringing meters and meters of cable to and fro’.

But what if you do? What options do you have?

For the past week or so, I’ve been playing around with the Iomega ScreenPlay HD, which is essentially an external hard drive with built-in AV inputs, including HDMI, coax, component and old school RCA. (Not surprisingly, there’s no HDMI cable included. Why make life any easier, right?) The idea here should be fairly obvious. You load the device with video files, plug it into your TV, and away you go. Useful for those of you who have your main PC—and I do mean PC, since the drive doesn’t play well with Macs—and TV are in separate rooms. The device, to Iomega’s credit, doesn’t look completely out of place when situated in a home theater.

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Iomega wants to make sure you never run out of DVR space with its just announced DVR Expander Drive, a 500 gigabyte external hard drive that plugs right into your DVR, thus expanding your storage. Compatible with eSATA Scientific Atlanta DVRs, the drive should be of use to people with Comcast, Time Warner, Cablevision, Rogers and Cox. The 500 drive can store some 300 hours of standard def programming, or 60 hours of high def programming. Things to record: the remaining games of the NBA Finals, Euro 2008, Good Eats, etc. Live life like its your last day, you know?

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Backing up is kind of boring but deathly necessary. That’s why we like this new 120GB Rev cartridge reader from Iomega. It offers a full-PC backup on a device about as big as an iPod and ensures security thanks to removable media.

Iomega has an interesting new product called the ScreenPlay HD — interesting in that there’s an included 500GB of storage for just over $200 and interesting in that there’s no Ethernet port or wireless connection (although wireless would certainly add to the price — Ethernet, not nearly as much).

If you don’t mind shuffling the ScreenPlay back and forth betwixt your computer and your TV, though, here’s what $218.45 gets you…

Enjoy the convenience of watching digital files on your home theatre or TV without being connected to the computer! The Iomega® ScreenPlayTM HD Multimedia Drive 500GB is a cost-effective, high quality multimedia player plus a high capacity storage device for your media collections of photos, videos, and music files. In a compact, sleek black style to complement your home entertainment system, the ScreenPlay Multimedia Drive includes an HDMI connection and is compatible with the latest media formats such as MP3, AC3 (Dolby® Digital Encoding), WAV, WMA, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI/VOB), MPEG-4 (AVI/DiVX 3.11, 4.x, 5.x/XViD) and JPEG.

There’s also a 360GB version available for $159.95 — not too shabby.

Iomega ScreenPlay HD 500GB [Iomega] via Fareastgizmos.com

Everyone remembers the Iomega Zip Drive – we all had one, it’s okay to say it. I’d lost track of the company for a while, but they’re striking back with a new version of the device, which probably will get mixed reactions. It’s called the Rev and it’s essentially a HDD split in half – the head and mechanisms are in the reader, and in each removable cartridge is just a platter, which holds 70GB. They were proud of the cartridges’ durability, and the guy repeatedly slammed the cartridge onto the table to emphasize it.

They also had some tasteful little external drives; the black one below is 250GB. The big silver thing is their take on the external/internal thing; two hot-swappable drives stuck in an eSATA-capable Mac Pro-like enclosure for 1.5TB of storage. In any case, they seemed like solid pieces of hardware, but I’ll wait for performance data before dropping any bills.

Iomega’s newest MiniMax and UltraMax hard drives were designed with Leopard in mind. Both drives come preformated with HFS+, the file system used by Leopard (and previous version of OS X). So if you ever wanted to use the Time Machine system backup feature, literally all you’d have to do is plug the drive in and click “use drive for Time Machine,” no converting from Windows-friendly FAT32 or NTFS file systems required.

Both drives should be available today barring a FedEx strike or something, with the MiniMax starting at $180 for 500GB and the UltraMax at $190 for 500GB.

UltraMax [Iomega via Electronista]

Iomega unveiled a plethora of external hard drives at Apple Expo including a 1.5TB drive. Said drive resembles the MacPro. The UltraMax Pro sports two SATA-II drives with RAID 0, I or JBOD configurations and a handful of interfaces (two FireWire 800, one FireWire 400 and one USB 2.0). You also have the option of picking up an e-SATA version with a USB interface. Each drive is $600.
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