Iomega intros entry-level network drives
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Aug 28th 2007 12:32AM
posted Aug 28th 2007 12:32AM
Iomega, long known for its stream of Mac and PC accessories (in particular the infamous Zip drive) has announced plans to offer a series of low-cost, family-oriented NAS solutions that will make your file sharing life a living heaven, or so they say. The new set of drives -- which come in 320GB, 360GB, or 500GB capacities -- feature 10/100 ethernet connections, 7200 RPM SATA-II drives (with 8MB caches), and... well, uh, that's it. As president Tom Kampfer says, "At less than $150.00, the Iomega Home Network Hard Drive is a new price-performance milestone for networking today's digital home." Go ahead -- drink the Kool-Aid. The 320GB model is available now for $149, the 360GB and 500GB are coming in September for $149 (oddly the same as the smaller model) and $199, respectively.
Or you can buy a buffalo 2 Terabyte nas raid for only 800 bucks
Listen I'm sorry but, with the music, recorded shows, files and whatever else someone would use a NAS for, it should have a 10/100/1000 ethernet connection.
apparently they dont find much difference in 320 to 360gb versions either.
And it will break after 30 days and take another 60 days to get a replacement :D That is if it's anything like my Jaz, ZIP250, REV, or NAS stuff that I have purchase in the past.
Iomega isn't allowed here anymore. Bon chance!
FYI they have the 500GB in compusa on sale
What I'd rather see? A good cheap single drive network attached enclosure for adding our OWN drives.
Ditto!
what I want is a cheap WIRELESS nas or nas enclosure
They do have a nice 500GB with a Print Server for only $270 though. I honestly don't need even that much space, but I'm sure I'd use it eventually.
Simpletech has been selling a 500GB NAS for $140 for quite some time now
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822100016
Lacie has been selling 500GB for $188 and 1TB for $280
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822154165
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822154170
And the nice thing about the SimpleTech NAS is that it has a built in print server and two USB slots for whatever else you want to connect. I use one slot for my printer (an epson R260) and the other one for an additional 500gb external drive. The NAS will use that external drive and configure it as a RAID. If you dont' want to RAID, you can utilize both the internal and external drives as one contiguous volume! sweet!
I had only one problem though...it took SimpleTech 3 units until I got one that worked for more than 30 minutes! That was a very frustrating 6 weeks of hell...but now I have one that's working and couldn't be happier... When it works, I highly recommend the SimpleTech NAS...just make sure you run several days of tests against it to make sure it will continue to work...
Ed
web/gadget guru
I guess someone has to say it; I didn't even know Iomega was still around. I seriously thought they had gone under when CD burners outphased Zip drives completely back in, what, 1999?
Anyway, they're beyond irrelevant now..
This box must run Linux. Did they release the source code under GPL?