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EMC earlier this year acquired storage and network security solutions company Iomega Corporation, who is perhaps best known for its line of Zip and Jaz drives. Today Iomega announces the first co-produced storage drive between the two companies, resulting in the StorCenter ix2. For $300, consumers get a network storage solution the company describes as being "smaller than a large dictionary." The price point works out to $0.33 per gigabyte.
"These are market-based prices," Iomega division president Jonathan Huberman said. "It's ridiculous how cheap these things are, but it is what it is. A great value for the consumer."
Upping the bang for buck factor, a 2TB version is also being made available for $479, or about $0.24 per gigabyte. Of course, the StorCenter ix2 offers more than raw hard drive space. The unit comes with EMC's Retrospect backup software, virus encryption technology, and RAID 1. A bult in media server and Bluetooth, UPnP (Universal Plug and Play), and DLNA (Digital Living Netwrok Alliance) media device capabilities also come part of the package.
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Belboz99
October 16, 2008 at 12:57pm
*Note* The first one listed is Direct Storage not NAS, but most of the others are NAS.
Prices range from $189 to $369 for 1TB models, with 3 popular models at the $229 price range.
FWIW, Iomega has a drive listed there as well, although not the one in the article above, for $269, which is a bit pricey when you factor the lack of GbE.
Dan
sirphunkee
October 15, 2008 at 3:27pm
somebody enlighten me on what bluetooth would be good for on a NAS box...? Will the media server stream audio to A2DP headsets etc?
dcrail
October 15, 2008 at 12:07pm
"It's ridiculous how cheap these things are..." and yet it's still over $100 more expensive than it's competitors. It may have more options and features, but are they that great to over look that kind of price?
Here's to zip cartidges keeping some floppies company in the garage.
cheatochris13
October 15, 2008 at 11:18pm
its not an external storage device its a nas, its basically a small computer, so for that price it is extremely cheap, i would like u to post a link to a NAS box that is cheaper then that by 100 bucks
