By default, it's a free-for-all approach, meaning everybody has full access to all share folders. The Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition offers two tiers of access to the server's storage. For example, if your brother wants to share access to his server with you and your cousin wants to do the same with another server, you'd have a hard time accessing both at the same time, if at all. In this case, you'd need to install on the remote computer the version of the Iomega Storage Manager software included on the CD and manually enter the credentials, including the Cloud's unique name and the access code.Īlso, the Personal Cloud feature only works well when you want access to a single server. Once in a while we found that server didn't send out the intended invite e-mails. Even with fast connections, you can only drag and drop small files or folders between the server and the remote computers without experiencing freezes. First of all, it requires fast Internet connections at both ends to work otherwise, the Iomega Storage Manager software takes a long time to establish the connection. In our trials, this feature generally worked well, though not perfectly. Getting it up and running was a simple process, and most people with basic computer knowledge should have a similar experience. Overall, the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition is the most easy-to-use NAS server we've yet tested.
This feature can be turned on or off for any share folder using the server's Web interface. The Movies, Music, and Pictures folders have media-streaming features turned on, meaning digital content stored inside them will automatically broadcast to iTunes or DLNA-enabled media streamers in the network. By default, the Time Machine folder stores backups done by Mac computers' Time Machine feature and the QuickTransfer stores backups of thumbdrives as mentioned above. The software, which can be set to run when the computer starts, will map all the network drives to the NAS' default share folders, including Backups, Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures, Time Machine and QuickTransfer. All you have to do is connect the server to the network, turn it on, and run the Iomega Storage Manager, which is included on a CD. It's very easy to set up the NAS server with the network. Connect a thumbdrive (or even an external hard drive) to this front port and press the button to back up the entire content of that drive onto the NAS' internal storage. There's another USB port on the front of the server, together with a Quick Transfer copy button.
The USB port can be used to host a printer or an external hard drive. The drive has one Gigabit Ethernet port and one USB 2.0 port, located on the back.
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