Ibood: Iomega StorCenter Dual Bay NAS server with 4TB €269.95

beaniebarbeque

http://www.ibood.com/ie/en/product_specs/4665/Iomega_StorCenter_Dual_Bay_NAS_server_with_4TB_and_Gigabit_connection/

Hard to be certain that this contains the 4 TB storage. Good deal if it does. The blurb seems to imply that it contains 4 TB (2x2TB) rather than this being the max it can handle.

http://go.iomega.com/en/products/network-storage-desktop/storcenter-network-storage-solution/network-hard-drive-ix2/?partner=4725 lists the RRP of the 4TB model at €449 which is the RRP on iBood

sv650

Some more details here:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/30976-new-to-the-charts-iomega-ix2-200-storcenter-network-storage

00sully

oooh how quick is ibood to answer emails? if this is 4tb it'll be my first ibood!!

Soarer

All well and good lads, but is it any good?

Thought Iomega were supposed to be fairly unreliable? Wouldn't be happy with losing 4tb of data!:eek:

00sully

read a few reviews since I saw this alert - seems to get good'uns to be fair!

http://www.techreviewsource.com/networking/iomega-storcenter-ix2-200-4tb

http://reviews.cnet.com/network-storage/iomega-storcenter-ix2-200/4505-3382_7-33788177.html

seems to run quite hot tho which im fine with. 3 year warranty too - I've had drives fail on me before and got the data back without too much hassle on the warranty

think I'll plump for this - it does inc the 4tb by all accounts (still haven't gotten that confirmed with ibood tho im 99% sure)

dricco

It's only a 2 bay nas box. Which means you have to use raid 1. So you'll only get 2tb of real space. Better buy a 4 bay box and use raid 5, way less space lost

00sully

you got one to recommend drico?

I think you can put this one in Raid0 to utilise the 4tb, means you lose redunancy but sure it's a double redundancy for me so I think I can live with that.

dricco

I'm sure you can but if a hd fails you loose everything. I lost all my data before and I'll never make the same mistake again.

Personally I would go for this - http://www.serversdirect.co.uk/HP_ProLiant_Neo_N36L_Micro_Server__612275-421/version.asp?
or this
http://www.kikatek.com/product_info.php?products_id=40152

and add the drives myself.

Voodu Child

Soarer wrote: »

Thought Iomega were supposed to be fairly unreliable? Wouldn't be happy with losing 4tb of data!:eek:

Iomega don't make hard-drives, they use various brands of HDD in their products. This probably has Seagate drives in it.

smiddyboy

Gone for this! I have been after some network storage for a while and this ticks all the boxes for me.

Thanks to the OP.

user1842

Just before I checked iBood this morning I bought the below on Amazon:

1 X D-Link ShareCenter Pulse 2-bay Network Storage Enclosure

2 X Samsung F4 EcoGreen 2TB 32MB 5400RPM 3.5 inch SATA-II Internal Hard Drive - OEM

Total was £204.62 which is approx €242.19 and free postage.

Did I get a better deal or is the iomega a better NAS?, kinda kicking myself but at least I got it cheaper.

sv650

imho, RAID in a NAS box is pointless for home users. I only use it as a backup of data held on my main machine.
RAID is designed for constant availability- it is not a backup solution.

user1842

sv650 wrote: »

imho, RAID in a NAS box is pointless for home users. I only use it as a backup of data held on my main machine.
RAID is designed for constant availability- it is not a backup solution.

I would not say that. As you could be using a NAS as a media hub supplying your TV, computer etc, but you dont want a separate backup solution. Hence RAID 1 is a good solution as you never need to schedule backups and if a failure happens you have instant access to all your recent data.

Although I do agree that RAID's main purpose is for high availability but backup is a nice feature for home users especially now you can get cheap RAIDs

sv650

dmclean1842 wrote: »

I would not say that. As you could be using a NAS as a media hub supplying your TV, computer etc, but you dont want a separate backup solution. Hence RAID 1 is a good solution as you never need to schedule backups and if a failure happens you have instant access to all your recent data.

Although I do agree that RAID's main purpose is for high availability but backup is a nice feature for home users especially now you can get cheap RAIDs

Yes but it's not just disk failure. Failure of the NAS itself could easily happen: power supply, fan, controller board etc- RAID won't save you from that.
And if a drive did fail it could take a couple of days to complete a rebuild.
I'm not saying RAID is a bad idea, just that it makes no sense for my needs... RAID and backup are 2 different things....

user1842

sv650 wrote: »

Yes but it's not just disk failure. Failure of the NAS itself could easily happen: power supply, fan, controller board etc- RAID won't save you from that.
And if a drive did fail it could take a couple of days to complete a rebuild.
I'm not saying RAID is a bad idea, just that it makes no sense for my needs... RAID and backup are 2 different things....

True your RAID could fail but at least your data would still be intact unless it blew up or something

Do most RAID's not have auto recovery now. Like if a drive fails, it informs you and you just swap it for a new one with no downtime. I could be wrong on this though?

dnme

If your data becomes corrupt, RAID will duplicate the corruption onto both disks :eek:

dnme

Product Comparison: ix2-200 v Netgear ReadyNAS Duo RND2000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_7hy-c1sL8