Comments on: Iomega’s ix4-200d: A Killer Desktop Storage Array

By: berginj

berginj — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:45:11 +0000

Stephen, did you keep the box? I ended up picking up a 4tb as the price finally dropped low enough that I just couldn't say no.

Interested to see if you have done anything major with it. My home lab is finally getting some real functionality. Worth the money in my book so far!

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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:22:13 +0000

[...] offer iSCSI connectivity at a nice entry price as well. Storage expert Stephen Foskett has done a nice independent review of the ix4-200d device on his personal blog site. The StorCenter does have VMware and Hyper-V [...]

By: Mo

Mo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:57:30 +0000

@cgeerinckx

To bad. Thought it would be great for my homelab.
Want to test hyper-v cluster.
Wich NAS device is compatible with hyper-v (cluster)?????

By: sfoskett

sfoskett — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:11:34 +0000

I've been running performance tests on the ix4-200d review unit Iomega sent me and have not seen the best performance. I've never broken 30 MB/s using iSCSI, SMB, or QuickTransfer. Iomega insists this is too low and I should be getting better performance, and sent some suggestions. However I have not yet been able to try these out since I haven't been home much!

By: sfoskett

sfoskett — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:11:34 +0000

By: Bernd

Bernd — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:30:13 +0000

What is about the transfer rate over Ethernet?? I getting with the device here about between 15-20mb/s that is not even 6%. This device is soooooooooooooooooooooooo slow, my external HD was faster.
I have 2 device and use one to backup the other one and at 700Gb it runs now more than 115hrs and is still at 60% transfered.
If i only think that i would have the device fully loaded……. 1 week for a sync???
And you give this nice review??? Shame, Shame……

By: r4i software

r4i software — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:10:50 +0000

I have used the ix4 since August and have had no issues with it..the Gigabit ports are what drove me to the product…I can say that for NAS the product was outstanding and I thought the price was inline with the market if you are looking for something about quick plug and play USB…its great for a small business owner like us.

By: cgeerinckx

cgeerinckx — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:45:59 +0000

The ix4-200d device indeed is Windows 2008 certified.
But that doesn't mean it is usable as cluster shared storage in a hyper-v environment.

It seems that ix-4-200d does not support scsi-3 persistent reservation (SPC-3). The hyper-v cluster validation fails on this item.

Iomega support confirmed me that they doe not support scsi-3 persistent reservation.

By: Richard Sharpe

Richard Sharpe — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:02:45 +0000

To be clear, busybox is not a variant of Linux (either the kernel or a distro), it is a shell (replacement for bash) that is useful for embedded Linux because it cuts down on the space needed in flash for copies of all the commands supported by busybox (and duplicate copies of library routines or shared libraries etc).

By: corradoc

corradoc — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:01:09 +0000

Stephen, are you sure you cannot upgrade disks? Is the underneath OS customized for each box and hardened to avoid user changing disks?
To my knowledge, Iomega uses customized versions of BusyBox (a linux variant).
I mean, I certainly have to go through a complete format (thus loosing content) but swapping disks with bigger ones shouldn't be impossible.
Or, do you mean that, by doing this, you break warranty support?