Iomega 250GB External Network Hard Drive

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	Price: $187.99
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Features - 250 GB Network Hard Drive - Plug and Share Capability - Interface: Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX - Versatile - Touch-free backup and configuration Product Description The wireless compatible Iomega Network Hard Drive gives you up to 250GB of storage space for your home or small office network. Without adding the cost and complexity of a server, you can now share and store your critical files, photos, music and video from ANY standard or wireless computer. Customer Reviews Easy setup Date: 2005-08-27 | Rating: 5 This was easy to install... was up and running in a matter of minutes. It seemed noisy at first, but nothing unusual... just another hard drive running. I relocated it to under my desk and the noise is not a problem. I haven't tried the Iomega file sharing or backup software which is included. I'm using it only for storing music and accessing it with Squeezebox2 on my wireless network. It works great. So far so good Date: 2006-02-21 | Rating: 5 The setup was trivial. I have a 150GB Iomega drive also which has performed well without problems. I gave it 5 stars but I would give it 4.5 stars (if i could) for some minor issues: a) it is a little noisy, although I keep it in another room so it's not too bothersome for me. b) the 250GB drive does not always detect the first time (the 150GB drive always does). sometimes I have to go thru the detection process twice. so far though i've had no major problems with it. First Impressions Date: 2004-12-01 | Rating: 4 I recently purchased this drive after picking it over the Buffalo LinkStation 250GB. There are a lot of opinions about the LinkStation on the Web, but not any about this drive. It could be because it is a new product? Anyway, alot of people complaned about the LinkStation failing due to firmware issues, so i deceided to give Iomega a shot, not without some hesitation. I owned a Zip "click of death" drive years ago and swore I would not buy another Iomega product, oh well. Pros: os: WXP Pro 1) easy to setup. The supplied software handles mapping the network drive. 2) Included backup software, works ok for small SOHO backups. 3) Low noise level (There is one concern please see the con section). Con: 1) Lack of security settings for individual users access to folders. It seems that this drive is designed with the less technical user in mind. maybe Iomega can provided this capability via a firmware update. 2) Lack of USB 2.0 or Firewire port. This drive can only connect through Ethernet. No growth capabilities provided. 3) You can FTP to the drive except when I logged in as root my password was not accepted. I think I will investigate this further, it would be great if you could set up FTP access for different users. Again maybe a firmware update? 4) One rather disturbing thing. When I powered off and powered on with a short delay between operations a high pitch whine sound started to come from the drive. I powered off again and waited 20 minutes and powered it on again, this time the sounds from the drive were "normal". Its been on now for 24 hours+ with no abnormal noises. I contacted tech. support and they blamed this noise on a loose connection or "long" ethernet connection. Hmmm, I have it attached to a hub, with the cable that it came with, and did not touch the drive between powering off and on. I can recomend this drive if the "strange' noise doesn't mean it is going to fail. I will post after 30 days to update. It is easy to setup and use. It should basically be considered by a home user or small business that doesn't need any special NAS needs. Review update!!!!! Date: 2005-01-14 | Rating: 4 I have to post this under a different name. Amazon does not allow multiple reviews. anyway.... This drive performs great!!! the noise is not an issue, the speed is good, no crashes (its been on for over a month). In short this is a great drive for SOHO who doesn't want a lot of hassle with setting up and configuration. I would revise my original review to 4 1/2 stars. a few installation 'hiccup' - updated Date: 2005-04-29 | Rating: 4 The disk powers up fine, and I plugged it to my linksys wireless router in no time.. However, the 'iomega discovery' software which is supposed to 'discover' the disk for the user could not find from my wireless laptop... This probably comes the Cisco security agent installed on my laptop by my company, as it reporting blocking some udp signal coming from the iomega discovery software. I tried to connect physically my laptop to my router, but still coulnd't find the disk... I tried the alternate method proposed by the online help (look under 'my network places'), but this still didn't work.. Eventually, I looked into the DHCP table of my router, identified the 'new' IP adress of the disk, and was able to access it like this. The IP adress also allows to access a small web page with some configuration settings... I especially like the option allowing to power down the disk remotely. Would love to have an optin to power it up remotely ;-) Streaming of mp2 and divx works fine between this disk and my wireless B laptop. This is perfect. More documentation on the expected read/write speed, and on discovering the disk would be nice...