The Iomega EZ Media & Backup Center is a Network hard drive (1TB capacity) that allows you to copy/access documents, stream media content over the local network and access the drive online via it's cloud based services. Additionally the Iomega comes with iOS & Android App compatibility, but the latter is possibly the one area where the drive is let down.
For example the Apps that allow you to access the drives content are a little buggy and require some updates to improve matters. However to be honest for the £150 rrp (or £127 best online asking price) it's still not that bad and though performance is as you would expect from a Network drive it does have a lot of features and we had no qualms over its media streaming performance - partially thanks to the Network Drives dual-core 1.2Ghz CPU and 128MB RAM.
Review
For this review we have created a video. The first part shows the design, the second part the web interface (for this you need to view the video full-screen) and the last part shows the apps. So hopefully it will give you an insight into what we thought of the drive.
SPECS
- General Device Type: NAS server
- Host Connectivity: Gigabit Ethernet (10/100 backwards compatible)
- Total Storage Capacity: 1 TB
- Width: 4.67 cm
- Depth: 19.81 cm
- Height: 12.8 cm
- Weight: 1.26 kg
- Processor / Memory: Dual-Core 1.2 GHz, RAM: 128 MB - DDR3
PROS
1. Relatively easy to setup
2. Cloud-based integration
3. Solid streaming performance over the LAN (to and from our PS3)
4. Quite in operation
5. Power saving modes.
CONS
1. Can get a little too warm after pro-longed use
2. App support is poor, with the apps crashing when trying to access videos.
3. Not a disaster recovery solution.
4. Web interface performance does drop after enabling encryption (though this is to be expected).
5. No Wireless support.
