Enjoy your digital life! Easily share and access photos, videos and music between your home computers with the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive. This device provides easy-to-use, yet powerful, network storage for the home user and the three step setup is a breeze, even if youve never used a network drive before. Save all your digital files to one central location and share them between computers on your network. Then play back your pictures, videos and music from digital media adapters such as game consoles, digital picture frames or networked TVs. Built-in iTunes support automatically feeds music into iTunes for easy playback. Easily share one printer over the network. Control which family members have access to certain folders. Plus, secure your memories and backup automatically with award winning EMC Retrospect software (PC/Mac) and for extra protection backup online with MozyHom Online Backup service with 2GB free.

Features

* Simple to use—Three step set-up – simply plug into your router, power on, and install the software CD. Friendly web screens for easy management.
* Sharing—Access files from any networked Windows PC or Apple computer for easy file sharing.
* High Performance—Gigabit Ethernet connectivity combined with a high performance processor.
* UPnP™ AV Media Server—Compatible with DLNA® certified media players, able to stream photos, audio content and videos to a variety of media devices like game consoles, audio bridges, DMAs (digital media adapters), picture frames and more.
* iTunes™ Server—Store your audio content in one central location and share it across your iTunes players.
* Network File Protocols Supported—CIFS/SMB (Microsoft), AFP (Apple), HTTP 1.1
* Expandability—Add storage capacity by connecting external USB Hard Disk Drives. Supports FAT32 and NTFS formatted hard drives.
* Network Discovery—Automatic network discovery by Apple Bonjour and Microsoft Windows Rally devices.
* Data Protection—Touch-free professional-level backup for all your critical data with EMC® Retrospect HD backup software. Effortlessly back up files on a pre-set schedule.
* Print Server—Intelligent network print sharing capability for one USB printer directly attached to the HomeMedia drive

Review By Pcworld

As with most network-attached storage devices, you can configure the unit via a Web browser. In this case, though, the interface is a sterling rendering that strikes the right combination of being easy on the eye and being easy to use. Two simple steps get you through the media server setup; exposing folders with media content to the DLNA (UPnP) and/or iTunes server (this is done on the Folders page via two buttons next to each folder), and choosing who has rights to access specific folders.

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Review By Computershopper

The Home Media Network Drive comes in 500GB ($159.99) and 1-terabyte ($229.99) versions. (We tested the 1TB.) The drive has the basic physical attributes typical of its class. The rear panel has a single Gigabit Ethernet port (10Mbps/100Mbps/1,000Mbps), for connecting to your router, and a single USB port. The USB port lets you attach a regular, non-NAS external hard drive (or USB key-chain drive) to share the contents of the attached drive across your network, the second drive acting like supplemental storage for the NAS. Alternately, you can use the port to share a USB-interface printer, eliminating the need for a separate print server. That’s a nice bonus if your router doesn’t incorporate a print-server function.

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Review By Reghardware

Setting up the drive is very straightforward. You just connect the power and Ethernet cables and then install Iomega’s Home Storage Manager software from the CD-ROM supplied with the drive. Iomega also includes a copy of the Retrospect Express back-up programme for making regular back-ups of your files.

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Review By Crunchgear

The drive comes with EMC Retrospect, which is automated backup software. It’s easy to use and lets you set a schedule for backing up important files. The getup also comes with 2GB of free Mozy online backup service. You can get 2GB free from Mozy no matter who you are or what drives you own, though, so it’s mostly just a little extra fluff.

From a hardware standpoint, there’s a USB port on the back of the drive that can be used to hook up a second external hard drive or as a print server. That’s a great little feature that I think adds a fair amount of value to this thing. You can just place your printer and your backup drive next to your router and be done with it.

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