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    Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?

    Iomega's StorCenter ix2-200 NAS Has Bluetooth, Time Machine, Chubby Exterior

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    Image of G.O.B.: Come on! G.O.B.: Come on!
    10/25/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    Puh-lease this is only marginally better than FreeNAS. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of takedanger.design takedanger.design
    10/24/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    Show me a NAS with built in NZB downloading/unpacking, and I'll bite. #iomegaix2200review
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    10/25/09

    @takedanger.design: ReadyNAS via plugin? #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of fate47 - Meh. fate47 - Meh.
    10/24/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    Is the Ethernet port gigabit? Does it support wireless? #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    10/24/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    Second good review on this unit I've seen... Is there any chance you can test out transfer speeds on it? I was actually pretty interested in this when I saw it on Ars awhile back, but didn't know anyone else with the unit.

    I'm getting sick of having a monster full tower in the basement churning away sucking up all my hard earned cash in electricity. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of CC Sullivan CC Sullivan
    10/24/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    At this size and price, this could be the next SLUG (Linksys NSLU2 (Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives))

    Lets get them to release the Source Code. Its probably Linux based anyway. #iomegaix2200review
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    Jason Chen promoted this comment CC Sullivan was starred CC Sullivan was unstarred
    Image of AmphetamineCrown AmphetamineCrown
    10/24/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    It can take *hours* for the app to locate the NAS on your network at set up?

    That seems... impossibly slow. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of Trevor Mitchell Trevor Mitchell
    10/24/09

    In reply to Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
    Raid 1? why waste 1/2 the disk space. should have been raid 5. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of bsh0544 bsh0544
    10/24/09

    @Trevor Mitchell: There's two drives. Raid 5 wouldn't even work. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of Chris Hansen Chris Hansen
    10/24/09

    @Trevor Mitchell: From what I understand, RAID 5 on two drives isn't possible. You can do it with 3, but it's reccomended to do RAID 5 with 4 drives or more. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of fluidexistence fluidexistence
    10/24/09

    @Leonce: That's more of a recommendation based on redundant failure capability, I'd say. Then again, if you're that concerned with having robust parity, you could just as easily do RAID 5 on 3 with backup to tape. #iomegaix2200review
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    AmphetamineCrown promoted this comment fluidexistence was starred fluidexistence was unstarred
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    10/24/09

    @fluidexistence: You are, as always, balancing efficiency against catastrophic failure. Your RAID 5 efficiency is (N-1)/N, where N is the number of drives, and increases as N grows large. However, your risk of catastrophic failure is the possibility of two drives going bad at the same time, which also increases as you put more drives in the array. #iomegaix2200review
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    Image of drsmith drsmith
    10/08/09

    In reply to Iomega's StorCenter ix2-200 NAS Has Bluetooth, Time Machine, Chubby Exterior
    Where is the link to the friggin product?
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    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    10/08/09

    @drsmith: Here.
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    Image of LuluTuditanus LuluTuditanus
    08/27/09

    In reply to Now Available
    what the hell is up with this article including a sub post for iomega?
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    Image of Jesustron Jesustron
    08/27/09

    @LuluTuditanus: Pro Tip: Read the title
    The title of the article is: Now available
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    Chris Jacob promoted this comment Edited by Jesustron at 08/27/09 6:06 PM Jesustron was starred Jesustron was unstarred
    Image of Death Death
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    I've owned way too many faulty Iomega products to ever consider buying anything else from them.
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    Image of not_a_virus.exe.vbs not_a_virus.exe.vbs
    05/18/09

    @Death: I have only owned one, the Zip. Now whenever I see anything iomega I don't even bother.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    Iomega eGo Hard Drives are good enough, smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like them.


    Fixed it.

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    Image of collectiveego collectiveego
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    sick, eGo is my steam id, crazy...i really want one now.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/18/09

    @collectiveego: and what's your steam password?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    For a while, I've wanted a portable HDD that I could use on a laptop, but I was always on the fence about the quality of a lot of these things. Another issue was being able to easily open the enclosure up, and toss the drive if ever I wanted to upgrade, so I bought one of these...


    [eshop.macsales.com]


    All it really requires is snapping the drive onto the chipset then screwing it in place. I very much prefer these things over prebuilt portable externals.

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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/18/09

    In reply to Iomega eGo Hard Drives Are Pretty Enough, Cheap Enough
    Seems fair enough, until you realize this is the same company that made and then STOPPED MAKING the Zip drive.


    So yeah, sure, "pretty enough," "cheap enough" yada yada yada. But just wait until you buy one of these only to find out in 10, 20 years IOMEGA will STOP supporting them!

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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    05/18/09

    @frigg: I was considering more the whole 'portable-click-o'-death' problem...
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    Image of szrimaging szrimaging
    05/18/09

    @frigg: Wait...you are getting at them for not supporting a technology that was passed by newer, better technologies that there was little to no demand for? Wow, just wow. Lets face it, the Zip Drive was doomed once portable hard drives like these became accessible.
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    05/18/09

    @szrimaging: I'd say the SD card is the better replacement for the Zip drive than the portable hard drive. Only problem is that not everyone has a reader (I'm looking at you Apple).
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/18/09

    @frigg: ... was sort of kidding about the OMG it will be obsolete in 20 years thing!!!... *shuffles back under bridge*
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