Iomega Home Media 1 TB Network Attached Storage 34337
- 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
- Sharing: Access files from any networked Windows PC or Apple computer for easy file sharing
- 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, DMAs (digital media adapters), picture frames and more
- Torrent Download: Torrent is the new standard in peer-to-peer file sharing. Direct file transfer to your StorCenter is easier, faster and more reliable - especially with large media files
- Remote Access: Access and manage your data from anywhere in the world via remote browser access
Product Description
Enjoy your digital life! Easily share and access files, photos, videos, and music between all your computers, with friends and with family using 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 and sharing 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... More >>
The seller Azeezulla is scamming Amazon buyers. IOmega has confirmed to me that this product does not do what they are claiming. Amazon is no help and is hiding behind the seller. So when you see Amazon A to Z Guarantee that means absolutely nothing. Sham on Amazon for doing shady business! DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM AMAZON WITH A TO Z GUARANTEE
Rating: 1 / 5
What can I say? I really hoped this would be a fantastic piece of kit yet here I am writing to complain bitterly about it.
Worst user interface ever!
Wasted hours of my life trying to get this thing to work.
My advice? Don’t buy it. You will have more fun eating burning hot lava in Hawaii.
Rating: 1 / 5
When the network harddrive arrived I followed step by step instructions on how to install it. When I reached the end of the instruction booklet I found out that according to it my hard drive had hardware issues.
It doesn’t work at all so you might as well just by anything else. Don’t waste your money and time on this. By the way I’m an engineer and I make a living out of all these little gizmos so I REALLY really know what I’m talking about.
Rating: 1 / 5
It is a joke to claim the device has print support. It doesn’t work for multifunction printer. I called Iomega support and they confirmed that. This drive does NOT support multifunction printer!
Rating: 1 / 5
I purchased the 1TB Home Media Network Drive last week and installed it on my Windows XP system. It’s very easy to install — it HAS to be since the only printed documentation supplied (in about 400 different languages) says 1) to plug in the power and 2) plug in the network cable.
After installing the drive and the software, a series of drive letters appeared on my XP system and I attempted a backup. In the middle of the operation, the device failed because the drives “disappeared.” The Iomega software repeatedly scanned and found no device, then minutes later found & reconnected them. I repeated this about 6 times before connecting with Iomega Support Chat. Predictably, the tech didn’t understand the problem, asked repeatedly if the reason I couldn’t see the drives is because I unplugged the drive .. even once suggested that maybe I was not seeing the drive because I’d shut down my computer. Other than than, told me the problem I had was ’somewhere in my network.’
I returned the drive to the store and exchanged it and the new one doesn’t show that problem. BUT it means that in a sample of two there is a 50% failure rate. A product like this should have a failure rate of about 1 in 600,000 so either I’m very unlucky or they product quality is very bad.
The second drive was reliable, so I attempted to configure the backup program (retrospect HD) and found that it could take 30-45 SECONDS to move from one screen to the next. Repeatedly. Reboot, remove, reinstall, retry … all the standard options … the software is really just that slow.
After tolerating the slowness of setup, Retrospect DOES make a backup. Then I try Microsoft backup and than works as well.
–now for the shocker–
The Iomega software does not run as a ’service’ under Windows, so when the user logs off, the drive is disconnected. (this is a weird design feature/flaw of Windows that one would EXPECT the Iomega software to compensate for) — what it means to the user is that even if you schedule an unattended backup for, say, 2am Sunday morning …. you have to REMAIN LOGGED ON in order for the drive to stay connected (mapped, actually) or the backup will fail with “destination volume not found.”
Iomega Tech Support Chat again: same routine -Did I have the computer turned on? Did I have the drive mapped? Did I have a static IP? Does the drive come back when I reboot? He’s asking all the right questions, but clearly doesn’t have the background to understand the answers. The drive DOES “come back” after a reboot, but not UNTIL some user logs on. Meaning that a user has to be logged ON in order to have an UNATTENDED backup.
At the end of the call, he finally told me that their parent company’s PAID VERSION Retrospect backup software DOES reconnect the drive for unattended backups …
1) HAVE to use their backup program?
2) HAVE to pay extra to get a product to work for the advertised purpose?
3) FIFTY PERCENT FAILURE rate?
The bottom line: This is a VERY basic product, suitable for unsophisticated and undemanding use only. The frustrations are that it would have cost them NOTHING to have simply thought it through a bit better and rewritten the same software to act more professionally. Combined with the slowness of their proprietary backup software and unsophisticated tech support, I cann;y honestly recommend this product.
Rating: 2 / 5