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Iomega intros SSD-based USB 3.0 portable drive

Iomega today announced its--and possibly the world's--first portable storage solution that's based on a solid-state drive (SSD), the Iomega External USB 3.0 SSD Flash Drive.

Traditionally, most portable drives are based on internal laptop (2.5-inch) hard drives. As the name suggests, the new drive also supports USB 3.0, which offers a ceiling speed of up to 5Gbps.

According to Iomega, the new SSD Flash Drive features built-in 256-bit hardware encryption and rugged housing, and is bus-powered, meaning it uses only one USB cable for both data and power connections.

Iomega claims that the new drive'… Read more

Iomega to add USB 3.0 to eGo portable drives

Iomega announced Tuesday that its plans to equip all of its eGo portable hard drives in 500GB and 1TB capacities with the new USB 3.0 interface by early October. Iomega is a little late to the USB 3.0 game as Western Digital, Seagate, and many other storage vendors released their USB 3.0-based external hard drive a long time ago.

According to Iomega, to make up for this, the new USB 3.0 portable drive will share the same software bundle that comes with its existing USB 2.0 drives. And most importantly, according to the company, its … Read more

'Jersey Shore' aesthetic meets portable storage

Iomega is partnering with "sports fashion" brand Skin Industries to bring consumers a new line of graphically enhanced external hard drives that kind of look like they belong on the set of "Jersey Shore."

You get your choice of three styles (Radical, Knock Out, and Red Hot), and the 500GB drives are cut from the same Iomega eGo design cloth that earned our CNET Editors' Choice award for fast transfer speeds. They also come with a generous three-year warranty and Drop Guard technology that protects the drive from up to 4 feet in the air.

You … Read more

Iomega revamps entire ScreenPlay product line

LAS VEGAS--It's quickly becoming clear that one of the trends at CES 2010 is the prevalence of all-in-one media players and networked streamers. While we already got a taste of the Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link back in 2008, the company is debuting three new products that launch the device in a more ambitious direction. All of the products still get content to your TV screen, but now offer much more useful ways of doing so.

The first, the ScreenPlay Director HD Media Player, is directed at consumers who want the ability to get their content via a home network, … Read more