Iomega's new terabyte network drive is small, cheap, and looks like it gets the job done

Posted by Rob Beschizza, October 15, 2008 9:31 PM | permalink

I lag behind my colleagues in the home-storage 'n' networking stakes. Joel has some stout NAS box that's probably larger than my Shuttle PC, and John's got a home theater PC, Airport expresses, the lot. He can probably flush the crapper with his iPhone.

Me, I have a 4-year old USB drive plugged into an old router. Network throughput: about 1MB a second. Yeah, so I'm not exactly the Torrent Monster. But all that could change, as Iomega's simple 1TB network hard drive is $300, has gigabit ethernet, and built-in uPnP and iTunes server support. And with the 2TB version being only $480, it's not bad on price, either.

Tempted.

Iomega releases 1TB network hard drive [CrunchGear]

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#1 posted by dculberson , October 16, 2008 8:22 AM

"built-in uPnP"

Ooohhh... I just put together a Linux box running Mediatomb as my uPnP server, and it's definitely got some maturing to do. It works, but it's not even as nice as Windows Media Player 11's uPnP server. I wonder how this box works...

Oh no, I forgot I swore off iOmega.

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#2 posted by TJ S , October 16, 2008 9:11 AM

IIRC, it'll do DLNA as well.

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#3 posted by markfrei , October 16, 2008 9:48 AM

If they gave it built in SlimServer support then I'd be all over it...

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#4 posted by airship , October 16, 2008 10:33 AM

I'm a bit rusty on this stuff: doesn't 'Raid 1' mean that it actually has TWO 1TB drives in the box?

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#5 posted by elricky , October 16, 2008 6:52 PM

Capacity and features aside, it's so *ugly.*

Definitely one to put *under* the desk.

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#6 posted by wrybread , October 16, 2008 8:13 PM

#4/Airship: I'm too lazy to actually read the specs, but judging by the size and the price, I'm guessing this is two 500gb drives which you can configure as either Raid 0 (1 tb of space) or Raid 1 (500gb, mirrored).

In my opinion Raid 0 is significantly worse than a single 1tb drive since, if I'm correct, you have twice the chance of losing your data to a harddrive crash since if either drive crashes you lose all your data.