Overall Rating: ( 6 reviews )

1. Posted: Jul 9 2008

   I have bought two of the 1TB models and am ordering a 2TB model this week. They are a wonderful way to get cheap storage on the network. We have a large network (healthcare facility) and have had no problems like others have mentioned. My only problem is that it has trouble working with large AD structures. Fortunately, while our AD is very large, we also have a second, smaller AD domain for special admin purposes. Because we are only using these boxes for admin purposes, I installed them on that AD and they work fine. No problems with IP addresses or time synch, just followed the directions out of the box. I'm a domain admin with years of *nix and Windows experience, maybe that helps?

2. Posted: Apr 14 2008

   I have the Iomega StorCenter 150D setup as raid 1 (mirror). I have the unit set to "sleep" mode, 30 minutes. It never does go to sleep. Our power went out unexpectedly. I have my equipment on battery backup. I shut down my server, but forgot to turn off the StorCenter 150d. The power killed on it, but it was not being used at the time, so it shouldn't hurt it. Now, when I boot up the storcenter 150d, it is back to factory settings, and LOST ALL MY DATA!!! I will never ever purchase another Iomega product, EVER.

3. Posted: Jul 3 2007

   This NAS 150d arrived dead out of the box. Iomega made me pay the shipping for a replacement. The replacement was scratched up, had no key, and was shipped loose in a box. Iomega did not want to replace that either! What a terrible, terrible company!!

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Overall Rating: ( 13 reviews )

1. Posted: Aug 9 2008

   Consistently fails to mount on my Mac (takes a few re-starts of both the computer and the drive to finally see it on the desktop). Sometimes fails to start altogether. Sometimes I can't shut it down. The WD online and phone customer service is worthless - for any practical solution they want payment. Don't buy this!

2. Posted: Jul 20 2008

   I purchased this item because I prefer Western Digital drives to other manufacturers. After reading the other reviews, I decided not to install the software that comes with it as I won't be using the "world access" functionality. After figuring out what IP address it pulled, setup was easy via the web interface. As others have written, the web interface _is_ unusually slow, but it does get the job done. It's not like you'll be using the web interface regularly. I have confirmed what some others have written about write access being a bit slow. However, I did so some testing on my own and have found that writing to this drive over my gigabit network (wired), I can get up to 5 MB/s writing. If I write to a true windows server on my same network, I can get up to 12 MB/s on that.. so there is some speed difference. Possibly because the true Windows server is doing (more) write-caching. Since I am using this to primarily store videos to stream to my DirecTV HR20 (mpegs), I have done several tests and find that the bandwidth on this device is more than sufficient to stream to my receiver. The videos play without delay, and no jitters or playback problems. One downside to this is that it doesn't have a built in UPNP server, but my current TVersity server handles it fine. All in all, I am happy with this NAS, especially for the price, compared to other devices. Pros: -Easy to setup, don't install the software -Not as loud as people have mentioned. I barely hear it. -Looks nice, small form factor -Gigabit Ethernet helps video performance (less lag) Cons: -The blue-ring of death (the power and activity lights) is just as annoying as the one on my DirecTV HR20. Unfortunately, unlike the HR20, the lights can't be turned off. Don't put this near your TV, or you'll be staring at the lights. -Slower than writing to a regular windows server (by 50%), but it still performs well Wishlist: -Ability to turn off the lights -USB connector to plug it into my computer directly (so I could use it as a regular external hard drive) -Rubberized feet. I live in earthquare country so things need to be able to stay put. This is easy to overcome at my local hardware store. -Faster write performance. Perhaps more write-caching?

3. Posted: Jul 16 2008

   Purchased this device - connected it to my network without any problems. Haven't bothered to load the software on it as yet - works just fine. If I feel the need to make it more secure then I'll install the software. I am able to stream media from the device via a Media Centre machine with no issues linking to it across my small network. All in all very happy with the purchase :)

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