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Out of stock | | | | | | The new wireless compatible Iomega StorCenter Network Hard drive 250GB has the storage capacity, value rich features, and simplicity to become your ultimate storage center! Store and share critical files, photos, music and video content across PCs and from any standard or wireless computer connected to your home or small office network - all without the cost and complexity of a server.The Iomega StorCenter Network hard Drive is a UPnP A/V Media Server, that supports UPnP-compliant DMAs for the non-PC environment. This allows you to stream media content (photos, music, video etc.) using a digital media adapter (DMA) directly to your home entertainment system without the need of a computer - bridging that digital content gap between your PC and home entertainment devices (TV, stereo...). The StorCenter digital content center also allows for a central print station (1 to five printers) to print digital content from any PC on your home or small office network. Also included is Iomega Automatic Backup Pro for Touch-Free backup and full system disaster recovery as well as FolderShare software which allows you to access, sync and share files from anywhere in the world via an internet connection. | | | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 10.75 inches | | Product Width: | 9.5 inches | | Product Height: | 4.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 6.35 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.8 inches | | Package Width: | 9.5 inches | | Package Height: | 4.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 4.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 7 reviews |
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| | Features | Store and share files, photos, music and video with any computer on your network7200 RPM spindleUSB 2.0 and 1.1 compatibleCompatible with wireless and wired networksIncludes Iomega Automatic Backup and Symantec Norton Ghost disaster recovery software
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 KInda loud, kinda slow, but it works a little bit Mar 31, 2008
Well, the drive works - I'll give it that. It is extremely loud, enough so that I'd suggest looking elsewhere. I'm not sure if it was a limitation of the drive or my network, but it sure seems as though this drive was slower than other drives I've hooked up in the same scenario. Overall it was a dissapointment and didn't perform as wonderfully as expected.
 Problematic network connection Aug 12, 2007
This drive doesn't live up to its claims, nor is it an effective network drive. When I first hooked it up, it was fine: the setup was quick, the interface seemed user friendly, and I was able to create users and log in from my other computers on the network.
The problems started when transferring files. First, transferring any file that was larger than 100mb would somehow disconnect the drive and render it unavailable over the network. I would have to manually shut it down and power it up since the web interface was no longer reachable. Second, as I was using it as a backup drive, I copied over a bunch of files, and while it was copying them, the drive crashed and lost all my files. I'm glad I didn't rely on this crappy machine as the only back-up device.
Now, it seems that the network connection (probably the network card) is gone and I can't use the drive anymore. The blue light assures me that it is functioning correctly, but when searching for it, either with the DriveDiscovery software, or just trying to navigate to it using the network browser, it's not there.
I bought this last year in October, so this stupid thing didn't even last a year. And there is absolutely no help from Iomega's website.
If you're thinking of getting a NAS, please don't get this one, and definitely don't use it as a back-up device.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Not a good backup solution Jul 06, 2007
I bought this product to provide an unattended backup solution for multiple workgroup PCs. Unfortunately I could never get this to work even with multiple calls to Iomega technical support. The documentation doesn't tell you that the user accounts you create on the drive must be the same as those on the Windows client and the drive letters mapped to individual shared directories can't be maintained during a reboot whether mapped through the Iomega Discovery Tool or the Windows interface. The Retrospect Backup software included seems like a pretty good product, but unattended backups consitently fail because of drive mapping and authentication problems. I requested that Iomega refund my purchase price but they declined...first because I didn't buy it from their web site...then later because they said there was nothing wrong with the drive even though they admitted that the advertised and documented functions did not work correctly. I spent 8 hours troubleshooting this product at a customer site and with Iomega support and could never get this product to work correctly...DONT BUY THIS DRIVE FOR BACKUP SOLUTION IF YOU WANT TO HAVE INDIVIDUAL USER ACCOUNT/DIRECTORIES AND UNATTENDED BACKUP!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Great BackUp Drive May 22, 2007
Easy To install/configure,worked right out of the box.
Easy to use GUI interface(configure users,shares)
Great as a backup device, Drive is a little slow to be a primary storage device.
If you want speed, an external USB drive would be the way to go.
Fan is a little noisey, but only after large data transfers.
Slow writing speed Dec 11, 2006
I have to agree with the reviewers that state that this thing has a slow writing speed. I am experiencing this as well with my unit. I suspect there is some lag time going from Firewire to USB, though the box on the Iomega clearly states that the drive operates at 7200 rpm- same as my firewire drive.... Also once you open the file window to the hard drive it takes five seconds or so for the files to actually appear. At first I was worried that they didn't copy over, but they did. Just delayed repsonse time.... I am using a 2006 PowerMac w/ 2.0 USB.
I just purchased this past weekend so I unable to share any other issues with you at this time.
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