THE IOMEGA STORCENTER ix2-dl is the
company's Least expensive two-bay NAS box, and a notable step up from its more
consumer-oriented Home Media Hard Drive. At $200 sans disks, it’s a good
performer for reading back data, and its software features are solid. But the
ix2- dl’s small file and folder write performance is weak.
The StorCenter ix2-dL is powered by a
1.6GHz Marvell 3282 CPU and 256MB of memory. A basic black box, the ix2-dl is
adorned only with power and status lights on the front panel, and gigabit
ethernet and a single USB 2.0 port on the back. That port works with external
storage drives or printers; or you can plug in a USB camera and use the drive
for video surveillance.
The ix2-dl provides interfaces to
social sites such as Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube; DLNA and iTunes media
serving; and iSCSI and printer serving, among other capabilities.
Writing lots of smaller files and
folders is the ix2-dl's weakness. With our 10GB mix of
files, it wrote at 20.2MBps. Though that's not the worst speed we've seen, it's
close.
For the average home or SOHO user, the
ix2-dl is easy to configure and use, and it doesn't cost a fortune.
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