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With three network disks: Iomega, RAIDON and Synology, you can easily create your own online repositories to share data for your home or office at anytime via the Internet.
Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive 2TB Cloud Edition
Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive 2TB Cloud Edition has a metallic, weighing about 1.11kg, mounted on a plastic base.
Iomega Home Media is powered by a 600MHz PLX 7800 processor, 256MB of memory and a 3.5-inch SATA-2 hard drive with 7200rpm SATA-2 speed and 2TB of storage.
Iomega Home Media comes with 2 USB 2.0 ports (front and back) for connecting external storage devices for backup, or connecting to printers for print sharing.
Quik Transfer on the front panel allows you to quickly copy when connecting external storage devices (you can configure the default backup folder for this button in the web console).
The Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive works cool and quiet thanks to its many heat-vented holes and metal housing. The device has gigabit ethernet ports to speed up network access.
With automatic installation via the supplied CD, Test Lab can easily detect the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive on the network with the Iomega Storage Manager utility (running in the system tray).
From the main interface of this software, Test Lab can access up to 6 partitions for up to 6 different storage purposes including backup, document, movie, music, photo and TimeMachine backup for Mac.
In addition, users can also use the intuitive web browser interface of the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive to access or stream content on the network hard disk.
You can also assign access to folders on your Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive; Reboot or turn off the device over the network through this web interface.
Iomega allows users to use Amazon S3 backup services, Mozy Backup or TimeMachine; Connects to popular multimedia services such as Facebook, Flickr, YouTube; Features include Picture Transfer, Torrent Download, Media Server.
Test Lab can also easily configure Remote Access over the Internet. In addition, with the Cloud Personal service, you can share and email your friends and relatives using the Iomega repository.
Iomega also offers the Iomega Protection Suite software download rights at its homepage. Iomega Home Media Network 2TB Cloud Drive is compatible with Windows, Mac or Linux.
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RAIDON SL3650-LB2
The RAIDON SL3650-LB2 hard disk with BXL Oxford PLX 7821 weighs about 2.5kg, has an exterior design similar to the RAIDON GR3630-SB3 hard disk case tested at Test Lab. The only difference is that the SL3650-LB2 is equipped with a gigabit ethernet port, without front panel LCD and control buttons.
All configuration and controls of the SL3650-LB2 are included in the web interface. The RAIDON SL3650-LB2 allows external storage devices to connect to external USB 2.0 ports. In addition, the back also has a 60mm cooling fan running smoothly.
The RAIDON SL3650-LB2 features two hard drive trays that can be easily pulled out by a front-facing button, supporting a SATA-2 hard drive 3.5″. Users can configure RAID 0, RAID 1 or JBOD. The RAIDON SL3650-LB2 network hard disk is compatible with Windows, Mac, or Linux.
However, the built-in RAIDON-NAS Finder version 1.0.4 detection application is only available in Windows.
After mounting two 1TB 3.5 “Seagate hard drives, Test Lab is easily configured to RAID 0 via the web console. The RAIDON SL3650-LB2 mainly supports services for home users such as FTP servers, iTunes, UPnP media, BitTorrent downloads.
In general, with its simple design, easy to use interface and data and multimedia sharing, the RAIDON SL3650-LB2 network hard drive is better suited for home or small office users.
Synology DiskStation DS212
The Synology DiskStation DS212 can act as a small, network-attached storage (NAS) server, equipped with a 1.6 GHz processor and 256MB of memory. Two DS212 hard drive trays are easy to remove, support SATA-2 hard drives 3.5″ and 2.5″, up to 6TB SATA-2 hard disks, and allow hot disassembly when in operation.
The Synology DS212 weighs about 1.25kg, with a full black plastic cover. In addition to the front USB 2.0 ports, the Synology DS212 features a gigabit ethernet port, two USB 3.0 ports, allowing users to connect to an external USB 3.0 hard disk for faster copying (up to 5Gb / s). In addition, the DS212 also has a backup button, SD / SDHC memory card slot in the front. The Synology DS212’s cooling system consists of a 92mm fan on the back.
Integrated Synology Assistant application for fast Synology Disk Synchronization, connection and support for WOL (Wake on LAN). Tested with 250GB 3.5 “Seagate hard drives, Test Lab Can be configured to Synology Hybrid RAID to ensure data security; However, users can also configure RAID 0, 1, JBOD. The process of creating partitions, formatting and settings takes just over 10 minutes with each step intuitive, easy to manipulate.
The Synology DS212 server uses the latest Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) version 3.2, providing a multitasking web-based user interface, with features such as file sharing, photo album, Backup, web server, FTP, email, IP camera storage, printer sharing …
The DS212 also lets you power off or restart from the OS interface. Users can set up a Synology hard disk connection to the Internet with the EZ-Internet utility. The device is compatible with Windows, Mac, or Linux operating systems. Synology DS212 also comes with the Data Replicator 3 application for data backup and recovery. In addition, DS212 also supports bundled applications through iOS and Android mobile devices. Experimenting DS Audio and DS Photo + applications on the iPad running iOS 5, Test Lab can view photo slideshows and listen to music streaming over the LAN from the DS212 quite smoothly.
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