Iomega Home Media Network Cloud Edition 1TB drive
Made for sharing
Review I must confess that I do have have an extraordinary fondness for network attached storage. And when terms like ‘home media’ and ‘cloud edition’ appear on the box, then it certainly gets my attention.
Cloud cover: Iomega's Home Media Network drive
So, while for you Iomega’s latest storage box may be unnecessarily encumbered with the kind of moniker that would make even Fiona Apple think twice, to me it conveys it's something that could be rather useful.
As for the box itself, it’s a sleek black unit housing 1TB of storage, which connects to your router by Ethernet and can be accessed from your local network or, hence the Cloud part of its name, from anywhere else on the Internet.
Device settings
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It has all the standard Nas features; iTunes server, DLNA media server, Bit Torrent downloads, and a USB port to add extra storage or hook up a printer in order to share it over the network. Mac users will be pleased that it can also be used as a destination for Time Machine back-ups.
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COMMENTS
Apparently titles are important after all
Quote "I'm also not completely clear if the price quoted includes a drive or not."
Clue is in the title -
Iomega Home Media Network Cloud Edition 1TB drive
You see where it says 1TB drive? That's where the clue is.
Not sure this is the product you mean to rant at.
This is a device to be used to back up a home computer and store a little media -- so if it dies either you'll have the original PC or the media will be in some way retrievable (depending on its copyright status and how it got onto the disc in the first place).
It's also supposed to be "cloud" so your photographs, for example, will be stored in one or more "clouds" as well as being on the device.
Oh, and as to RAID5 -- my current main home partition is on one but I'm not sure why since
I worked out that there's a good chance that if a drive fails one of the others in the pack could fail not long after and the stress of rebuilding a RAID could be just the trigger.
I don't think any devices of the type reviewed here are "backup" devices -- they're convenient ways of sharing data. All serious backups are off-site.
*cough*
What sort of hard drive has it got inside?
What sort of noise does the fan make?
Hate to say this
But the difference between an external USB drive adn a NAS is more than a bit of software and a network card.
What for example would the 'bit of software' run on ?
Why stop there...
I thought this was a tech site... what about how quick is a sustained data transfer. I've owned a few NAS boxes and some are dead slow and some are quick. A slow NAS is a fate worse than death when moving data around, how does this compare?
