SAN DIEGO — Iomega Corp., which has several hundred employees in the Roy/Ogden area, on Monday unveiled two new lines of external hard drives.
The HDD Portable Hard Drive is available now in in 20-gigabyte and 30-gigabyte capacities, and the HDD External Hard Drive will be offered with capacities of 40, 80 and 120 gigabytes when it becomes available in May.
The portable drive has a suggested price of $199 for its smaller-capacity model with USB connection and $229 for FireWire. The 30-gigabyte versions cost $259 for USB and $279 for FireWire. Optional USB and FireWire interfaces with cables will be available in late May.
The external drive in 40-, 80- and 120-gigabyte versions will cost $199, $299 and $349, respectively, with USB connection. FireWire versions for the 80- and 120-gigabyte models will be $329 and $379, respectively. Optional interface cables will be available in June.
The new drives are "hot-swappable" and "plug-and-play" to give users the ability to connect them to a desktop or laptop computer without rebooting or having to install the device. The portable drive will have actual transfer rates as high as 21 megabytes per second, which the company says will allow for editing video and image files, developing business presentations and working with large data sets.
The portable drive weighs 8 ounces.