REV (disk)

REV was a removable hard disk storage system from Iomega. The small removable cartridges store 35, 70, or 120 gigabytes and were based on hard-drive technology. Like a standard hard drive, the REV system used a flying head to read and write data to a spinning platter. The removable cartridges contained the platter, spindle, and motor, while the drive heads and drive controller were contained within the REV drive. The drives allowed for data transfer rates of about 25 megabytes per second. The REV was available as an external desktop model with FireWire, SCSI or USB 2.0 interfaces, an internal model with SCSI, ATAPI, or SATA interfaces, or an external server model which features a cartridge autoloader and SCSI interface. Iomega also offered a 320 GB network-attached storage appliance which features a built-in REV. The drives were compatible with Macintosh, Windows, and Linux operating systems, although some only with particular models or interfaces.