Email alerts (w/ built-in SMTP service for no-hassle setup).User level permissions with quotas (no groups).USB drive storage expansion (Fat32, NTFS, ext2/ext3, or HFS+ formats).Gigabit Ethernet port with 4000/9000 Byte jumbo frame support.Front panel indicators are minimal as shown in Figure 1.įigure 1: Iomega ix2-dl front panel callouts The ix2 has all-metal construction except for the slip-off front and screwed-on rear covers and no-fasteners-required hard drive frames. There is also a diskless version-the ix2-dl (model # 35887)-that Iomega sent for review, so that we could get the whole experience of installing drives from scratch. This new beastie comes in 2, 4 and 6 TB versions populated with two 1, 2 and 3 TB drives, respectively. This latest change drops both the 'Cloud Edition' and '-200' from the ix2’s moniker, leaving it as just the plain ol’ StorCenter ix2. But we took at look at the CE features when Craig reviewed the single-drive Home Media Network Hard Drive – Cloud Edition over on SmallCloudBuilder. The ix2-200 CE didn’t have any hardware changes, so we didn’t review it. The last time, remote access 'cloud' features were added to the ix2-200, resulting in the ix2-200 'Cloud Edition' (CE). This time, it’s the dual-drive ix2 that gets a facelift.

Iomega has been slowly improving its consumer NAS offerings, adding features and boosting performance.

Supports backup to cloud, rsync and SMB targets.

Two drive RAID 1 Marvell Kirkwood NAS with iSCSI, backup to/from rsync targets and CIFS shares, secure remote access and media services. Iomega StorCenter Network Storage (ix2-dl)

Storcenter ix2 software