Well, well. Seems Iomega’s put out a pretty affordable NAS hard drive in the $299 StorCenter ix2. There’s even a 2TB version for $479 if you’re really adventurous. This is a hopefully a good sign of things to come after Iomega’s merger with EMC earlier this year. Iomega promises an easy “four-click set-up” with the ix2 line and the drives include EMC’s Retrospect Express backup software for automating everything.
It also doubles as a media server with UPnP and iTunes support. And, get this, there will be an optional Bluetooth add-on that’ll allow you to upload stuff from Bluetooth-enabled devices. No word on when it’ll be available or at what price, but the ix2 system itself will ship on October 30th so maybe we’ll get more info then.
Wow, 2TB for $479, that’s got to be the lowest price point for an external out there…. but I think for storage you might want to pay a premium, for reliability. Iomega is a good brand, but what did they cut that lets them sell it for that price?