New Iomega HDD 60GB Portable Hard Drive Now Shipping

Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM), a global leader in portable data storage, today released the new Iomega HDD 60GB Portable Hard Drive, an easily transportable drive for mobile users that includes software designed for worry-free protection of both applications and data.

The new Iomega HDD 60GB Portable Hard Drive, which will be on display this week at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, includes the unbeatable combination of Symantec Norton Ghost 2003 software --for full-system disaster recovery -- and Iomega Automatic Backup software -- for on-the-fly incremental backups. The combination gives users a sleek, dependable external hard drive that is also an integrated high-speed storage solution for protecting their entire computing environment in one convenient package.

"External hard drives have exploded into an exciting storage category in recent months because low-cost external drives can extend the life of a personal computer and vastly improve the computing experience," said Michael Johnson, general manager, optical and sourced products, Iomega Corporation. "The new Iomega HDD 60GB Portable Hard Drive gives users the space they need for everything from editing digital video clips to capturing and holding a disk image of their internal hard drive."

Hardware
The new Iomega HDD 60GB Portable Hard Drive is a sleek, portable device about the size and shape of a PDA (drive only; dimensions when attached to interface are 7.5"x3.5"x0.7"). Weighing about 8 oz. (231 g), the 4200RPM drive is available in either Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0, backwards compatible with USB 1.1) or FireWire configurations and the interfaces are easily swappable so that the drive can be used with different operating systems.

Software
With the included Norton Ghost 2003, a $70 value, users of Iomega external hard drives can capture an exact image of the PC's main hard drive, including all system files, settings and installed software. Should disaster strike, the disk image is simply copied back to the replacement drive-no tedious reinstallation and reconfiguration of software, no Internet downloads of software updates and patches, just an uneventful return to a functional personal computer.

Between full-system backups, Iomega Automatic Backup software keeps users protected. This proprietary Iomega software solution provides automatic incremental backups of designated directories. Iomega Automatic Backup Software also lets users create multiple backup configurations, set up scheduled backups as needed, exclude unwanted files (e.g., .tmp files) from their backups, maintain multiple file revisions, and much more.

Availability
The new Iomega HDD 60GB Portable Hard Drive, shipping now, is available in the U.S., Canada and Latin America, and online at www.iomega.com. Pricing with included Hi-Speed USB interface (USB 2.0) is $379.95, and with FireWire interface is $399.95 (prices are U.S. suggested retail).

About Iomega HDD External Hard Drives
The Iomega HDD Portable Hard Drive gives the mobile user 20GB to 60GB of storage capacity in a sleek eight-ounce (231g) package, and is equipped with either a USB 2.0 (backwards compatible with USB 1.1) or FireWire interface module (additional interface modules sold separately). For desktop users, the Iomega HDD Desktop Hard Drive offers 40GB, 80GB or 120GB of rugged, reliable storage in a slightly larger form factor; it too lets users swap between USB 2.0 (backwards compatible with USB 1.1) and FireWire interfaces with optional cable-integrated interfaces. Both drives feature Iomega Automatic Backup software for on-the-fly backups along with Symantec Norton Ghost 2003 software for disaster recovery.

About Symantec Norton Ghost 2003
Symantec Norton Ghost 2003 is the personal/home office edition of Symantec Ghost Enterprise, the industry leading software for robust PC cloning. Norton Ghost 2003 allows users to restore or replace an entire hard drive without reinstalling the operating system and application software. Its intuitive interface makes it easy to create regular backups of a hard drive, and it lets users recover individual files quickly and safely.

Iomega can be reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA (888-446-6342), or on the Web at http://www.iomega.com/.

Source: Iomega Corporation