Comments on: Iomega px2-300d NAS Review

By: anon

anon — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:27:00 +0000

802.3 (thick coaxial network cabling) is not likely supported. just sayin.

By: nz

nz — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:16:00 +0000

Generally NAS devices support staggered HDD spin up requiring lower power supply. Secondly, NAS devices support hot plug so you can swap drives without shutting it down. Lastly, Atom TDP is lower than Core based CPUs.

By: mL

mL — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:22:00 +0000

A well written article. Nice tio see that on here…

By: jhdale

jhdale — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:34:00 +0000

I have an Iomega ix2-200. For several years it has had known bugs when the media server (DLNA) is enabled. First bug, it creates a thumbnail file in every single folder, not just the media share folders. These files cannot be deleted. If you backup your hard drive to the NAS, when you restore you will have all these thumbnail files on your computer as well. Second bug, any time you change any file on the hard drive, it runs the thumbnail process again, going through every single folder on the drive (again, not just media share folders, and not just folders with changes). This can take hours. That means you will hear the drives constantly running, and the drives will run hot. I had one burn out within months (fortunately under warranty and Iomega replaced it, but not addressing the underlying cause).

The fact that bugs cropped up even during the review period on this drive suggests to me that Iomega is not doing any better in quality control. It would not be a big deal if bug were fixed when they were discovered, but as I said… known bug for several years, it’s discussed at length on their forums. Once again, processes running amuck, spinning the drives unnecessarily.

I absolutely would not buy another Iomega NAS.

By: babarj

babarj — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:27:00 +0000

What advantages does a NAS have over a cheap ITX or M-ATX PC?
and please don’t answer with “NAS doesn’t have to run a full OS like windows or linux”
because as true as that is, NAS boxes usually have ATOM CPUs inside and even a cheap M-ATX PC can handle windows/linux without much problems.