Browsing in style
As with most Nas drives, you set up the Cloud Edition from a web browser, but that’s where the similarity ends. Not only is the web interface here the most attractive I’ve seen, it’s logically arranged, clearly labelled, and very easy to navigate.
Remote poosibilities
You can view features by group, such as Cloud Services, Back-up, and Storage, or you can search for them by keyword. The only let-down is the Help system, which frankly, isn’t much help at all.
Verdict
If you’re looking for a basic storage device to hook up to a local network, this isn’t it. If you want an all-singing, all-dancing, access-from-anywhere box, however, look no further. At just over £100, you really couldn’t ask for much more. ®
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Iomega Home Media Network Cloud Edition 1TB drive
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?
