Iomega brings its NAS storage to the home
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Iomega Corp.)
Iomega announced today that it has finally moved into the home NAS market. Although Iomega has long produced NAS storage for small businesses, it hasn't brought its technology into the home. The new Home Network Hard Drive does exactly that. The network-attached storage drive comes in 320GB, 360GB and 500GB capacities, and costs just a little more than comparably sized USB hard drives. Each drive contains a single 7,200rpm SATA-II drive with an 8MB cache. For networking, they offer a 10/100 Ethernet port, though users may also connect the drives to a single PC over USB. The drives are bundled with two EMC Retrospect HD licenses for backup.
The 320GB version is available now for $150 and the 500GB version is available now for $200. The 360GB version should be available in late September for $150.
Maxtor Shared Storage Drive II, Western Digital MyBook World Edition NAS server, LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini with Gigabit Ethernet and the new Iomega Home Network Hard Drive - these are all available w/500GB storage and the Iomega can be had for $255.00 or so, the LaCie for not much more. If there are others to consider, I'd like to know about them as well.
I am in the market for a NAS device, don't want to spend more than I need to and cannot find any reviews and/or comparisons of the the newest (and seemingly most affordable) units.
I would like to make an informed decision and a review (especially of the new Iomega unit) would be great!
It is an update of a review on the LaCie drive but it does allow you to link hop to other reviews. I hope this is helpful. I am leaning towards an HP media vault but price may be an issue.
Merlin
merlin@fireweb.com
- by IomegaCorporation January 7, 2009 2:43 PM PST
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