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1.5 stars
"Almost a great product"
Pros: Wireless makes this a great drive for safe, remote archival
Cons: Software is incredibly buggy, loud, hot external power brick
Summary: I bought this NAS to back up my files. Because it's wireless, I can place it in a closet where it's safe from being bumped or hit. Unfortunately, it needs to be in a closet - it's loud, ugly, and has a big power brick.
Performance in RAID 5 mode is extremely poor, as is typical of a consumer device. That's fine for incremental backups. Use RAID 0 if you need any kind of speed. (There are no instructions for replacing a failed drive when you're using RAID 5).
Like CNET, I could not get the bundled software to work. I had to run a packet sniffer while turning on the drive to find its IP address. The web administration pages built into the hard drive didn't work much better. In one case the admin system crashed and I had to reset the drive to factory defaults. That meant loosing shares and login accounts, and running the packet sniffer again. The web admin pages accept information which may crash or permanently disable the network interface. For example, putting the LAN and Wireless network interfaces in the same subnet is allowed even though it causes random network failures. The DHCP option does not seem to work (and you'd never find the drive with the broken Discovery Tool application if it did). The online instructions are non-technical even though very technical information is required to make this drive work.
It's possible for this to be a very useful drive but it requires struggling at a highly technical level. Wait until iomega fixes their buggy software.
Where to buy
Iomega StorCenter Wireless NAS 1TB:
$549.99
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