Iomega intros entry-level network drives

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.

[morder @ Aug 28th 2007 12:41AM]

Or you can buy a buffalo 2 Terabyte nas raid for only 800 bucks

[SigmaProjects.org @ Aug 28th 2007 12:48AM]

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.

[tehpwnmstr @ Aug 28th 2007 1:17AM]

apparently they dont find much difference in 320 to 360gb versions either.

[John @ Aug 28th 2007 1:54AM]

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.

[G @ Aug 28th 2007 2:04AM]

Iomega isn't allowed here anymore. Bon chance!

[akuma @ Aug 28th 2007 11:23PM]

FYI they have the 500GB in compusa on sale

[711 @ Aug 28th 2007 7:06AM]

What I'd rather see? A good cheap single drive network attached enclosure for adding our OWN drives.

[dextro @ Aug 28th 2007 7:35AM]

Ditto!

[TimG @ Aug 28th 2007 10:15AM]

what I want is a cheap WIRELESS nas or nas enclosure

[Grey Acumen @ Aug 28th 2007 8:00AM]

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.

[TimG @ Aug 28th 2007 10:05AM]

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

[Ed @ Aug 28th 2007 11:42AM]

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

[crsh @ Aug 28th 2007 12:51PM]

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..

[Jim @ Sep 19th 2007 7:21PM]

This box must run Linux. Did they release the source code under GPL?