14 DAY TRIAL // Iomega, one of the world's leading vendors of storage solutions, has just announced the expansion of its StorCenter family of Network Attached Storage devices, with the introduction of the new ix2-200 model. Designed as a 2-bay NAS that will provide customers with up to 4TB of storage space, the new external storage solution should come as a noteworthy choice for notebook PC users who are typically limited to the low storage capacity of their laptop's hard disk drives. The device comes with a long list of interesting features and is expected to become available really soon.
“The new StorCenter ix2-200 is definitely the easiest to use small office and consumer network storage appliance in the marketplace today,” said Jonathan Huberman, president of Iomega and the Consumer and Small Business Products Division of EMC. “Combining EMC's world class enterprise storage and security technologies with advanced media serving features makes the ix2-200 a versatile and affordable NAS appliance that gives smaller organizations, work groups and home users not only cost-effective and robust network storage but some of the same sophisticated data management capabilities as a Fortune 100 corporation - but without any need for IT experience.”
According to available details, the company has packed the new NAS with a number of interesting features, including built-in torrent and Time Machine support, while users can take advantage of the unit's Bluetooth interface to conveniently upload files from their phones. Additionally, the drive offers support for Windows Active Directory, iSCSI block-level access, while also letting users connect remotely to the drive and manage the stored files.
There's also a QuikTransfer button, which will reportedly enable users to easily copy the selected files, while the bundled EMC Retrospect Express backup software should also come in handy. The drive comes with a three-year warranty and is now shipping in the Americas and Europe for a price tag of US$270, US$370 and US$700 for 1, 2, and 4TB models, respectively.