Iomega StorCenter Wireless Network Storage - 33349 - Easy to use shared storage for any home or office network - Refurbished
Iomega 1TB StorCenter Wireless Network Storage

After upgrading firmware, unit would not work with pc and neither would replacement. The software is very bad. There are no new units when these are gone that is the end of the product. If you must buy the newer unit in plastic.
 
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This unit is incredibly enticing. Most units, although 1TB, only allow 0,1 RAID which means that in RAID 1 (mirror mode) you can only get 500 Gigs. This Iomega unit allows you get 750 Gigs in RAID 5 since it has 4 drives. More cost effective storage space. It also features: * Linux based OS * Flexible user and group based security, * Above average performance with respect to RAID, responsiveness, and transfer speeds. * Gigabit ethernet as well as 802.11G wireless * 2 USB ports to attach additional storage * 4 drive bays to upgrade and replace drives * RAID 5 !!. This is a prominent feature that sets it in a unique category among entry level NAS. * A very well built enclosure. All metal, fairly thick at that, as well as very sturdy enclosure for the HD's that uses screws. Nothing plastic of flimsy here. All very very good features for a NAS. The price is slightly higher than competitive products, but the added features are well worth it. Wait a second? Isn't the product being rated as 1 Star? I sound like a i am in love for the first time...... The biggest drawback? It's a deal killer. * BAD AND HORRIBLY DEFECTIVE SOFTWARE **** The software running the unit itself is flawed. Your data may be intact on the drives itself, but the administration software running on the unit can, and quite often, does fail. When it fails, you have very little options. There are some limited recovery options on the unit and Iomega tech support has limited solutions as well. If these do not solve the problem, you can send the unit back to Iomega, BUT LOSE ALL YOUR DATA. They do offer in-house data retrieval services, but quotes have run from $2500 to $6800 dollars depending on the amount of data to be retrieved. Opening the enclosure itself voids the warranty accordingly, and there is a little a layperson could do on their own. The internal drives are IDE. This means that taking the drives out and hooking them up to a independent system requires a separate 4-Channel IDE RAID card that supports RAID 0,1,5 + JBOD. The costs of fixing it yourself can become prohibitive. The whole point of this product is: 1) Network Attached Storage. Multiple computers accessing the data at the same time. 2) Backup. This requires reliability and redundancy (RAID) This product, although very well spec'd, cannot live up to it's purpose and will be a liability to anybody using it. Avoid this product at all costs.
 
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With oodles of large media files and mainly working from a laptop, I had my eyes on a min. 1TB HD for some time with the prices only recently having come down into my range. Was looking at a connected 1TB drive vs. Iomega's wireless and with 5 other computers on my home network, I decided to spring the extra dollars to get the wireless for my own convenience (not having to hardwire the drive to the laptop), to enable the rest of the family to use it as a backup and to easily exchange large files between our computers. Good price from Buy.com, set-up an absolute breeze: connect it to your router with an enclosed Ethernet cable, wherever that may be, pop in the enclosed disk and you are up and running in less than 2 minutes. The drive mounted seamlessly and is working almost as fast as the internal drive. OS's for our computers are Vista (Ultimate and HP) and XP professional --> no problems installing the driver and mount the drive on any of them. In summary, a slick and affordable addition to a multi-computer home wireless network.
 
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