Customer Reviews

Iomega 33610 1TB StorCenter Pro NAS 150d Server

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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!!

Having purchased other Iomega products in the past. I expected it to be well documented and easy to use. Wrong on both counts.

My first problem was getting my computer to recognize it. The box comes with a default IP address that is not in the range of my other systems. I finally discovered that if I disconnected my DSL router from my network, I could find the Nas. No documentation on this. Then the Nas caused all my other IP addresses to flip to its range. This was not good. I finally figured out how to change the Nas to an IP address in my range. This of course had to be done while the rest of the network was down. And don't forget to change the subnet mask if you need to.

After that, things came up and ran OK. I am only using this system as a bunch of disks with no raid. It is obviously overconfigured for what I need, but I wanted the network connectivity, and the print server. After reading other user comments on the Iomega forum, I now realize that the Nas has many problems. If you want one of these, be sure to go there first for more information.

The first one (2 TB model) I got wouldn't do anything--couldn't discover it, manage it, or map it. I exchanged it with Iomega for another, and the day before it arrived I got an email that it would need a firmware update. I spent hours and hours on this until out of desperation I brought it home, where it worked flawlessly on my much simpler home network without a domain. Their help forums turn up that you have to have 'mixed' networking on your Domain Controller, which is what allows devices based on software prior to Windows 2000 to connect to the domain (that is, no software newer than 8 years old! (2007-1999=8)). Well, I am in luck, because we have never switched our network over to Native mode....wrong. I still can't join a domain, it self assigns IP addresses despite being given a static one, the clock won't keep time (loses hours only, not date or minutes...), so back it must go. A large USB hard drive will have to do until we upgrade the server to something with more storage. JUST SAY NO!

The user guide had all necessary instructions communicated clearly. My professional network (head center) is running on this storcenter and will soon be getting a two terabyte storcenter for my branch as well. Gels well with the Ad direc. Contrary to inhibitions about raid functioning, it does a fine work.

Got this thing a couple years ago for my SMB data. RAID 5 should have provided a decent amount of DR potential. "Should have". Had one drive die. Found the exact same drive after much googling, dropped it in the bay, fired it up, went through the horrible management interface to the only option for "repair" and it just sits there and stares. No drives spinning. So now I'm off to pull the drives and see if I can recover the data from the incomplete stripe. Ugh, what a mess!!! Save yourself the headache and get a DROBO or some other kind of large-format storage!!

Item does what it is supposed to. Setup is simple and went flawlessly. Haven't had one issue yet. Would definitely buy another one, and plan to replace the hdds in this one with 750gb or 1tb drives once they come down a bit in price!

For the price and performance it is a great deal. It has Gigb besides 4 ports for hard drives. RAIDs are good too.

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?