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Between 50-200MB each, over to the drive, which slurped up the files in 1 minute 44 seconds (22.6MB/sec), a very respectable speed for RAID 5 over FireWire
400 onto a FAT32 filesystem. Iomega claims a maximum write speed of 47MB/sec and a maximum read speed of 70MB/sec – these seem completely reasonable speeds to attain over FireWire 800 onto the native filesystem of your machine of choice, particularly if you reconfigured the drive to RAID 0.

The system would then dutifully rebuild the drive, unless you configured the system as a RAID 0 (in that case, all your files would be gone).
Our test unit shipped with four Seagate 500GB hard drives installed. Note that Iomega’s documentation states that you must use replacement drives provided by Iomega to retain warranty coverage; but when the two-year warranty expires or you don’t intend to pursue any warranty claims, the drives in question are simply desktop SATA drives mounted in the carriers.

The first thing we noticed was the hex key locking mechanism used to keep the drives in place. The Power Pro comes with two blue plastic hex keys, along with a key ring Wed recommend not putting this key on your day-to-day key ring next to the house key and car key. though – it’s hard to say how well the plastic will age over time.
If (perish the thought) the array issues an audible alarm and a red indicator appears on the drive, you would use the aforementioned key to remove the failed drive and replace it with a new one

You can hot-swap dead drives out of the system, and there’s an audible alarm and indicator lights that show you exactly the drive’s status at all times. As icing on the cake, the Power Pro ships with EMC’s Retrospect Express backup software.

The previous iterations of Iomega Iomega has diversified a bit to include brought some revolutionary storage other storage devices in their  products into the limelight. The Ber- line, including the REV drive see our noulli Box. their first major product, review of the Grass Valley version ofwas the first high-capacity removable REV in the November 2006 issue, NAS disk, well, “high-capacity” at a time devices. DVD burners, a portable media when 40MB was considered huge.