The front panel LCD display is a nice touch and rotates between showing the date and time, IP address and volume Free / Used.įigure 2 shows the rear panel, where You can see two USB 2.0 ports (for a total of three), power connector, dual gigabit Ethernet ports with support for 40 Byte jumbo frames, failover and 802.3ad aggregation, and a nice, quiet fan. This means that NETGEAR’s ReadyNASes are no longer the only NASes that can do the backup to/from network share trick.įigure 1 shows the front of the ix4, with all callouts explained in the larger image. But it also brings a few new tricks of its own, including the ability to perform immediate or scheduled backups to and from attached drives, rsync servers and SMB/CIFS network shares. The ix4 also runs LifeLine and so shares the ix2’s features.

The ix2 did, however, have EMC’s new Linux-based LifeLine OS, which brought a nicely-redesigned management interface and new features that made it a big improvement over its predecessor, the now-defunct StorCenter Network Hard Drive. Our last look at an Iomega StorCenter NAS was the ix2, which Jim Buzbee found to be a pretty good value, even though it didn’t have chart-topping performance or the biggest feature set in town. If the StorCenter ix4-200d is any indication, it’s going to be a fairer fight than it has been.

Iomega is on a mission to remake its StorCenter NASes into better combatants in today’s bare-knuckled NAS competitive arena.

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