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Now it's a foot warmer. It was difficult to get networked and I work in IT. I am never buying another Iomega again. I'm shopping for a new external drive now that my Iomega has stopped working. The thing was noisy and slow to begin with.
Overall it was a dissapointment and didn't perform as wonderfully as expected. I'm not sure if it was a limitation of the drive or my network, but it sure seems as though this drive was slower than other drives I've hooked up in the same scenario. Well, the drive works - I'll give it that. It is extremely loud, enough so that I'd suggest looking elsewhere.
The blue light assures me that it is functioning correctly, but when searching for it, either with the DriveDiscovery software, or just trying to navigate to it using the network browser, it's not there.I bought this last year in October, so this stupid thing didn't even last a year. Second, as I was using it as a backup drive, I copied over a bunch of files, and while it was copying them, the drive crashed and lost all my files. I'm glad I didn't rely on this crappy machine as the only back-up device.Now, it seems that the network connection (probably the network card) is gone and I can't use the drive anymore. This drive doesn't live up to its claims, nor is it an effective network drive. And there is absolutely no help from Iomega's website.If you're thinking of getting a NAS, please don't get this one, and definitely don't use it as a back-up device. First, transferring any file that was larger than 100mb would somehow disconnect the drive and render it unavailable over the network. When I first hooked it up, it was fine: the setup was quick, the interface seemed user friendly, and I was able to create users and log in from my other computers on the network.The problems started when transferring files. I would have to manually shut it down and power it up since the web interface was no longer reachable.
The Retrospect Backup software included seems like a pretty good product, but unattended backups consitently fail because of drive mapping and authentication problems. I bought this product to provide an unattended backup solution for multiple workgroup PCs. I spent 8 hours troubleshooting this product at a customer site and with Iomega support and could never get this product to work correctly.DONT BUY THIS DRIVE FOR BACKUP SOLUTION IF YOU WANT TO HAVE INDIVIDUAL USER ACCOUNT/DIRECTORIES AND UNATTENDED BACKUP. I requested that Iomega refund my purchase price but they declined.first because I didn't buy it from their web site.then later because they said there was nothing wrong with the drive even though they admitted that the advertised and documented functions did not work correctly. Unfortunately I could never get this to work even with multiple calls to Iomega technical support. The documentation doesn't tell you that the user accounts you create on the drive must be the same as those on the Windows client and the drive letters mapped to individual shared directories can't be maintained during a reboot whether mapped through the Iomega Discovery Tool or the Windows interface.
If you want speed, an external USB drive would be the way to go.Fan is a little noisey, but only after large data transfers. Easy To install/configure,worked right out of the box.Easy to use GUI interface(configure users,shares)Great as a backup device, Drive is a little slow to be a primary storage device.
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