The ix2 also has full Time Machine and Retrospect support to back up your computer. Do you want pictures to be saved in one folder, and important documents in another? Just a few clicks away. Want to backup another external drive every week? Not a problem. You can set up multiple Copy Jobs for different drives or for different locations. Using what Iomega calls “Copy Jobs”, you can set the source and destination of the files, put the job on a reoccurring schedule, even tell it to only import new and modified files. I’ll go through and hit the big stuff.īackup and Restore: The ix2 makes backing up your drives almost a fully autonomous procedure.
You can see the list of various settings below. From this control interface you can have full administrator access from any machine on your network.
Iomega storcenter ix2 default port install#
Instead of having to install some sort of UI software, you’ll be greeted with the above page in your web browser. Plug in power, plug into router, run install disc and you’re ready to start storing data like its going out of style. Getting Connected: The setup for this thing was a breeze. Gigabit Ethernet jack, power input, and one of those nifty security lock ports if you have problems with people walking off with your hard drives. You also have three USB 2.0 ports, one in front, two in the back.
All of this is controlled by a Linux OS, EMC LifeLine. The disks are set up in a RAID 1 mirror, although you can disable the RAID and run it as JBOD instead. And if tanks can’t destroy your data, what do you have to fear? Inside the metal enclosure is a 1.0 GHz Marvel processor, 256MB of RAM, and two SATA II platters. The Hardware: First off, this thing feels like it could survive being run over by a tank.
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