Gadget: StorCenter ix2-200 NAS Does Torrents and Time Machine

Ed Sutherland ()

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Iomega has released the StorCenter ix2-200, a squat-looking NAS that includes built-in remote torrent transfers and support for Apple’s Time Machine. The $270 (1T) product also lets you download data to any Bluetooth phone – along with a number of “green” features.

“Based on EMC’s world class enterprise storage and security technologies and featuring a completely new sleek, sexy industrial design, the new network device will be the easiest-to-use NAS appliance on the marketplace today,” according to Iomega.

The ix2-200’s features “appeal to the movie-downloading, home-server-building, tofu-eating, lazy ass in you,” according to Gizmodo.

What struck us most is the built-in support for torrents. No computer is needed – download the files on the road with your Bluetooth mobile. The NAS also includes support for up to five security cameras that can be monitored from your iPhone.

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  • http://confusaodigital.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/jovem-condenado-por-fraude-contra-a-apple/ Evan Cazarosky

    I’m just disappointed with the low storage space … come on, all that pack of cool features and the box has only 1T ?

  • http://www.toxicspark.com Andrew Macdonald

    Looks nice. I want one.

  • Church of Apple

    Just got a Buffalo Linkstation 1TB for $50 less than that with all the same features, only one HD instead of two, support for time machine, is smaller and looks way sleeker. I already got the time machine part working as well as the DLNA server for my PS3, next I’m gunna check out what this torrent client can do and after that setup the FTP server so I can grab files over the net. Wish I has an iPhone, apparently they have a cool app for that. =)

  • Cowicide

    I’ve never trusted the iomega brand since the click-of-death zip cartridge/drive days. Do they make drives just as crappy as they used to or did they finally start doing minimal quality assurance? I remember the “zip bucket” that Kinko’s employees would throw faulty zip cartridges AND drives into back in the day. Meanwhile, Syquest drives worked great.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iomega#Controversy

    Why should I trust this scumbag company now?

  • andy

    I’ve had no problem to use iomega portable drives. They provide cost effective product. I understand their product in past was not good enough. Now iomega is part of EMC copmany.
    I really like this new product. I evaluated WHS(windows home server) which is $100 price tag. This one do almost everything of WHS and plus more.

  • James

    The Iomega of today is a far different beast then the expanded floppy maker of yesterday. Like Andy said Iomega has been bought out by EMC and EMC are the lords of storage.

    I’ve trialed all Iomega NAS devices except the one above. And if this model is anything alike the ix4-200d its going to be a mean little machine.

  • Rod

    I just bought the 2TB model for less than $299 from Provantage – with free shipping.

    The price/performance per TB just can’t be beat today.

  • Henry Cline

    I purchased the Home Media Center Hard Drive from Iomega.

    The torrent engine is great, but the claim that it supports Time Machine is bunk.

    The drive is formatted to accept Time Machine and you may be able to back up to it with Time Machine, but too important issues remain.

    Apple does not support these drives and will not even take your call if you have a complete Time Machine melt down with one.

    I spent over an hour on the tech support line with Iomega trying to get mine to work with Time Machine and Snow Leopard and if it does not work out of the box with Time Machine, there work around is just a hack, a hack that can be done with ANY drive by writing defaults in terminal to list unsupported drives and manually createing a sparsebundle which is copied to the unit.

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  • Brian McDermit

    The brochures about the ix2-200 unit is nice, but the problem is that the firmware is very buggy.

    To date, the following problems have been identified:

    Hard disks not spinning down
    RAID 1 not working correctly and can’t rebuild a replaced drive
    FTP access does not support security – anybody can access everything
    rsync not working correctly
    temperatue problems due to fan failures

    Biggest problem is the complete lack of support from Iomega Technical Support – no new firmware upgrade for 4 months despite numerous problems already identified by users on their own support web site

    Would not recommend you buy this unit