Iomega Home Media 500 GB Network Attached Storage 34336

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 3.5 x 2 inches ; 7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001OC5JLI
• Item model number: 34336
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (97 customer reviews)
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 23, 2008

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Enjoy your digital life! Easily share and access photos, videos and music between your home computers with the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive. This device provides easy-to-use, yet powerful, network storage for the home user and the three step setup is a breeze, even if you’ve never used a network drive before. Save all your digital files to one central location and share them between computers on your network. Then play back your pictures, videos and music from digital media adapters such as game consoles, digital picture frames or networked TVs. Built-in iTunes support automatically feeds music into iTunes for easy playback. Easily share one printer over the network, and control which family members have access to certain folders. Plus, secure your memories and backup automatically with award winning EMC Retrospect software (PC/Mac) and for extra protection backup online with MozyHome Online Backup service with 2GB free.

The Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive offers massive capacity and versitile backup features in an elegant, simple design. Network Multiple Computers in Your Home with the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive

A Great Way to Network Multiple Computers in Your Home
Easily share and access photos, videos and music between your home computers with the Iomega ® Home Media Network Hard Drive, Gigabit Ethernet/USB 2.0. This device provides easy-to-use, powerful network storage for the home user, allowing you to save all your digital files to one central location and share them between computers on your network.

Easy to Use, Secure, Fast and Powerful
With a three step set-up, sharing your files has never been easier. The Home Media Network Hard Drive uses a Gigabit Ethernet connection for fast performance. And with EMC Retrospect HD software, your critical data is secure.

• Capacity: 500GB (1 SATA II HDD)
• Simple to use: Three step set up – simply plug into your router, power on, and install the software CD. Friendly web screens for easy management
• High Performance: Gigabit Ethernet connectivity combined with a high performance processor
• UPnP AV Media Server: Compatible with DLNA certified media players, able to stream photos, audio content and videos to a variety of media devices like game consoles, audio bridges, DMA’s, picture frames and more
• iTunes Server: Store your audio content in one central location and share it across your iTunes players
• Expandable: Add storage capacity by connecting external USB hard disk drives. Supports FAT32 and NTFS formatted hard drives
• Data Protection: Touch-free professional-level backup for all your critical data with EMC Retrospect HD backup software

What’s in the Box

Home Media Network Hard Drive

Stand

Power supply

Quick start guide

Solution CD with system software, user manual and EMC Retrospect HD backup software

Product Description

Enjoy your digital life! Easily share and access files, photos, videos, and music between all your computers with the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive. Powerful and fast, the three-step set-up is very simple, even if you've never used a network drive before. Ideal for centrally storing all your media files, the Home Media Network Hard Drive has a built in UPnP AV Media Server (DLNA certified) and iTunes Server so that content can be easily shared between computers and any other digital media adapters such as game consoles, digital picture frames or networked TVs on your network. Plus, remote access means that you can manage and use your content anywhere that you have an internet connection. Torrent download allows you to take advantage of the new standard in file sharing, and other features allow you to share a printer and control which family members have access to certain folders. Automatically backup all your computers to the network drive with award winning EMC Retrospect Express backup software for PC and Mac (included), or virtually any backup application, including Time Machine. For extra protection backup online with MozyHome Online Backup service - 2GB included free.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

43 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty seamless home network drive, February 26, 2009

By	David Lee "worldblee" (Chico, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Iomega Home Media 1 TB Network Attached Storage 34337 (Electronics)

I've been using the 1TB media drive for about a month and a half now and have had a very positive experience. I set it up on an XP machine and had little problem connecting to it from my Vista laptop and XP netbook without installing any software. The only feature I haven't used is the USB print server (my printer is located in my office and the hard drive is connected in the living room next to the router and haven't wanted to move either one so they could be physically connected).

My PS3 automatically found the device on the network, and I use the PS3 to watch TV shows stored on the hard drive on my HDTV. This works great. I can't edit files using the PS3, but I can play AVI and MP3 files (I sometimes play music through my stereo system this way as well as TV shows). Formats like .mkv files won't play this way, but that's a function of the PS3 rather than a limitation of the hard drive.

I'm not using the backup software that comes with it; I manually load files to the device from any of my computers. I store my business files, writing, music, etc. on the drive and thus can, for instance, sit outside with my netbook while still accessing all my files (which is handy since the netbook has very little local storage). All my files are in one place and it doesn't matter which computer I'm using.

Uploading files is not much, if any, faster than a USB 2.0 drive in my experience, but download speeds seem very snappy and even very high resolution video files play back over the network with no delay.

For me, this HD solved a lot of problems. I highly recommend it if you have multiple PCs in your house and a collection of media or data files that you want to share, especially if you have a supported device like a PS3 connected to your TV. If you only have one PC and don't want to play media on your TV, you're better off with a 1 TB USB drive since that will be cheaper.


Pros
* Decent transfer performance over my network (via both wired and wireless connections)
* Can connect to it via PS3 or Xbox 360 to view/listen to media files
* Pretty painless setup
* Takes up very little space
* Works exactly as advertised and I'm in no danger of filling up the huge 1 TB drive

Cons
* Drive is a little noisy
* Whether it's a factor of my router or the net drive, sometimes my netbook (wireless) and PS3 (wired) lose connection temporarily. I think this is something happening on my network rather than the drive though.
* If I rename a file on the drive using my PC while a file is playing back on my PS3, there is a hiccup on playback: I lose sound for a second, then sound resumes but video playback lags for a few seconds before resuming. Audio and video remain synced when this happens, though.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bricked mine with a power outage, June 1, 2009

By	Matthew Godkin "Tony in Oak" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Iomega Home Media 1 TB Network Attached Storage 34337 (Electronics)

I'm getting another one b/c they are so inexpensive, plus I plan to reuse the 1TB HDD in the old one. But here's what happened: One day it was working, next day it wasn't being located by the network. Hmmm. Weird. I power it down, then power it back up. Lights on the case flash, then turn off once the NAS gets up to speed, about 20 seconds I think. The drive is still moving, but the same thing happens each time. I look in the lengthy Iomega forums and see other people have posted this problem. One response from the Iomega person asks if there were any 'brown outs'.
Oh, yeah! I put two and two together, the power outage I had at home corresponded to the NAS failure!
SO... if you buy this thing, be sure to give it a UPS.

I had it networked with my ReplayTV boxes and was able to watch archived TV from it at real time, albeit 480 resolution.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy set-up but a bit noisy, April 4, 2009

By	TechGuyBill "Bill" (SF, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Iomega Home Media 1 TB Network Attached Storage 34337 (Electronics)

I was shopping for a storage device to back up all of my data from my 3 computers (1 running mac os x, 1 running windows 7, 1 running xp) and my wife's laptop (vista) so some type of device sharable between multiple devices was a necessity. Initially I was thinking about buying a larger drive and putting it in my home server but came across the iomega device on sale when walking through a local store. They were on sale so I snapped it up... I bought a gigabit switch as well and did a couple of tests from my two PCs - one with gigabit and one with 100Mbps. The transfer of a 700MB avi file tool took ~ 68 seconds with the one with the fast ethernet (100Mbps) interface. My other pc with the gigabit interface was able to transfer the file in about 35 seconds.

I don't like installing 3rd party apps to manage backing up so I'm manually copying things over that I want to back up versus using iomega's included software.

The device is DLNA compliant and will stream to various media devices.... you'll be able to see it under network and also the PS3 sees it as well. I believe the playback of various media types are dependent on what your player will support (ps3 - divx (both avi or divx extensions) - mkv's won't work since ps3 doesn't support it). XBMC picks up the shared folders as well.

You can set up different permissions for each folder by going to the web interface. The web interface comes up as completely open by default. You'll have to set up an admin password. You can create user accounts for each of the folders and specify under each folder if you want to secure it and which users to allow access to the folder. Creating/deleting folders is a snap as well (though folder names are limited).

The device is also a print server. I plugged in my usb hp 2410 all in one. I only use it as a printer so I installed just the print only driver from hp and it works ok... a little setup is required like specifying the ip address, and for Mac osx specifying the queue as printer1 but took me less than 5 minutes... takes a bit for the print job to come out (~30 seconds) but now I can print from any of my computers which is a plus.

I only wish that the drive was a bit quieter (the cooling fan of the enclosure is the culprit I believe) as well as a way to spin down the drive in a power save mode if no one is accessing the server since it sounds like the drive is always on and I worry how long the disk will last being on 24x7... guess time will tell but since this is my back-up drive, makes me a bit uneasy.