Iomega intros new StorCenter network hard drives

Those in the market for a boost in storage now have a couple more options to consider from Iomega, which has beefed up its StorCenter line of network hard drives with three new models. Coming in 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB varieties, these each boast 3.5-inch 7200 RPM SATA-II hard drives (two in the case of the 1TB model), along with an 8MB cache to keep things nice and speedy and a pair of USB ports should you need even more external storage. The 1TB model will also give you your choice of RAID 0, RAID 1, or JBOD configurations, and all three pack a number of network features, including Active Directory support and UPnP AV media server capability (no WiFi though). Look for all three to be available immediately, with them setting you back $270, $360, and $390 for the 500GB, 700GB, and 1TB models, respectively.

[Via Electronista]

[Tim @ Jul 31st 2007 4:14PM]

I'm looking for a simple network storage device to store music/videos. These seem like they might fit the bill...

How easy is it to set one of these up and connect it to my modded XBox (to run through Xbox Media Center)?

[Umar nasir @ Jul 31st 2007 4:47PM]

Its good but is it worth it ?

[ChrisByrnes @ Jul 31st 2007 10:02PM]

What a coincidence! Last night my 14 month old 1TB Iomega NAS died for the second time, losing all data! The first time was under warrantee, and I was able to find literally dozens of other owners that had the same symptom (device capacity 12M, read only). Iomega replaced the box, but I had to recreate a half terabyte of data from its sources. This time it is 2 months out of warrantee. I will never buy another Iomega product again. I promise.

[trongle @ Jul 31st 2007 11:15PM]

this is madness

[riggs @ Aug 1st 2007 10:44AM]

THIS...IS...SPARTA!

[Peter Tripp @ Aug 1st 2007 12:35AM]

Active Directory integration is a nice touch, but LaCie offers a similar NAS device, the 500GB ethernet disk also with uPnP AV, 8MB cache, gigabit and usb daisy chaining which is available now...for only $75 less than these not yet available drives.

Also, I'd wait and see about the RAID performance on the 1TB model before purchasing, many of these cheap NAS devices have software RAID with an anemic embedded processor leading to very poor performance when you care enough about your data to use RAID1.

[notpeter @ Aug 1st 2007 12:38AM]

Damn lack of preview! Links follow...
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10843
http://www.amazon.com/500GB-Lacie-Enet-Disk-Gigabit/dp/B000MAM0KQ/duckiesorg-20/ref=nosim/

[ed @ Aug 2nd 2007 5:03AM]

Whatever you do, DO NOT BUY THESE PEICES OF SHIT.

The OS on them sucks. It has a web based management system to create the shared folders on the drive, RAID or no raid. If the OS has a problem and it gets restarted, it will/could/probably lose the configuration data for the shared folders. What makes it worse, is that the management interface then hangs and fails when you try to "recreate" the shared folders that is already there. Nothing helps. There is no way to recreate the configuration data manually and it is screwed forever. The data is still on the raid though, and unless you are LUCKY enough to have a RAID 5 PATA card that you can slap into a system, or a bunch of PATA -> SATA converters and a RAID 5 SATA card, you will never get back the data on the drive. Ever.

DO NOT BUY THEM. You cannot trust any important data on these SOBS.

ALL IOMEGA TECH SUPPORT MORONS BURN IN HELL!!!! BURN IN HELLL!!!!!!