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Iomega have picked a pair of Seagate low-power HDDs, which are reasonably quiet but still louder than the StorCenter’s fan. As for the latter, that’s much more appealing the ix2-200’s drives automatically spin down when not in use, and the NAS is paired with an Energy Star certified PSU. The former is unlikely to be much use to most home users, but small offices might find its ready integration with Microsoft Server useful. New and notable to the ix2-200 is iSCSI support, borrowed from its bigger ix4-200d sibling, and automatic drive power management. Since we’ll be the first to advocate having a regular, offsite backup of your data, scheduling can make doing that all the more straightforward. We’re also glad to see scheduling support, which means you can copy files to and from the StorCenter at preset times to other NAS or USB drives (using rsync or CIFS).
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Apple users will find the ix2-200 compatible with Time Machine for straightforward integration, while Windows users get EMC Retrospect Express Backup (with unlimited client licenses) to handle automated backups. Seeing as the ix2-200 gets all the ix2’s skills and more, that means you have a choice of UPnP DLNA and iTunes media server functionality, standalone BitTorrent downloads (complete with bandwidth throttling), folder quotas, Remote Access and Active Directory support. The UI is reasonably unchanged from the first-gen model, about which you’ll hear no complaints from us. While you’d think this would be a reasonably speedy process, it took longer than you’d expect for the Iomega Solutions CD to grab the ix2-200’s IP address however, subsequent tweaks to the settings are easily done by punching in that IP directly, rather than reaching for the setup CD. A single network connection and power connection gets the ix2-200 running, while a setup CD loaded in one of the networked computers locates the NAS and opens up the webserver-based UI. Setup is reasonably easy, especially if you’re content with the default settings (which most home users should be).
IOMEGA STORCENTER IX2 MANUAL
Not doing so will void the ix2-200’s three-year warranty, and we’re disappointed that Iomega seemingly bury this tidbit in the user manual rather than making it clear on their product pages (which only say that the drives are user-replaceable). There’s no support for hot-swapping, unfortunately, but the ix2-200 will automatically rebuild the standard RAID-1 array more concerning, though, is the fact that Iomega insist you use their own replacement drives rather than any generic SATA-II 3.5-inch hard-drive. Two screws (on the underside of the NAS) hold each in place, and once removed the caddies pull straight out. The ix2-200, however, makes replacing the drives yourself more straightforward.
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Attempting to replace it yourself, or upgrade the stock drives for faster or larger versions, voided the NAS warranty. drive alerts which will email you should that be predicted imminent – you needed to send the whole NAS to Iomega in order for them to switch to a replacement drive. One of our key criticisms about the original ix2 was that, should a drive fail – and you can set up S.M.A.R.T. You can also see the two drive bays, now user-accessible.
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Round the back there are a further two USB 2.0 ports – which can be used to plug in further hard-drives, printers for network sharing, or Iomega’s optional Bluetooth dongle for wireless transfers from cellphones and the like – and a gigabit ethernet port, along with the power input and a Kensington lock slot.
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Where the ix2 had no front-mounted ports, the ix2-200 gets a USB port, quick-transfer button (that automatically sucks the contents of a drive hooked up to that USB port onto the internal storage) and useful indicator lights. The new StorCenter is generally similar to the old model, a compact box with two 3.5-inch SATA-II hard-drives, but the design is far slicker and more suited to home use.