New Iomega StorCenter Network Hard Drive launched

It looks like network hard drives are quickly becoming the way to store large amounts of data on a network especially in the home or small office environment. Hook one of these suckers up to your router and you have the storage benefits of a file server without the cost.

To reflect this demand Iomega have just launched a new lineup of StorCenter Network Hard Drives with 500 GB, 750 GB and 1 TB options available. The drives are compatible with Mac and Windows networks and according to Iomega Corporation president, Tom Kampfer

Iomega network hard drive storage products are specifically designed to make it easy and dependable for SMBs and home office users to manage their data across the network, which is increasingly the location for storage products that deliver anywhere, anytime file access.

At the guts of these units is a 3.5 inch SATA-II drive spinning around at 7200 RPM with an 8 MB cache. You can also hook up extra hard drives (just in case 1 TB is just not enough!) or a network printer with the two USB 2.0 ports on the sucker.

These units will set you back US$389 (1TB), US$359 (750GB) or US$269 (500GB), so how do these prices stack up against the competition?

Western Digital offer their My Book World Edition II 1 TB model for US$450 or another option would be to purchase the NetGear Network HD Enclosure for US$100 and slap in a couple of 500 GB Seagate Internal HDs at a cost of US$160 each to bring the grand total up to US$420. Either way Iomega appear to have undercut the competition with these new drives. So if you’re looking for a bit more networked data storage then one of these drives could be the answer.

Source: Electronista

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