Hello David, First, thank you for signing your name at the end of your email; this is very considerate.
Second, you wrote: Hi folks. Has anyone here any experience using this NAS Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 as a remote harddrive for the iTunes library? My music library grows monthly, and I need space to store it on. By now, I have 2 Macs and one Windows computer. I think I'll go for iTunes as the default music application if there arn't any better ideas. Does this sound like a good solution? If not, do you have good alternatives for this purpose? Answer: Dave, I use the iOmega Store Center drives on my home network. I find them to be very intuitive to configure and, unlike some competitors, they do not install or force one to see additional folders on Desktops in an attempt to make the NAS simpler. Caution: be sure to make backups of your NAS for when a NAS drive goes bad, it can be almost impossible to recover the data without incurring serious financial expense. I use 3 iOmega Store Center drives on my network and I back each one up on a USB drive, made by a different company, and store these USB drives off-site. Also, beware of room temperature when running NAS drives. Even though many of these drives are rated to run at what many would consider to be high temps, I find them more reliable when running in a cooler environment; to that end, I have a tiny fan that I keep focused on all three of my network drives. I got the fan at Target for about $17. Finally, David, take the time to go through the configuration interfaced of the drive said interface being completely accessible from within Safari; in order to familiarize yourself with the drive. After all, if you're going to use it as your server source, you need to really understand how it works. Good Luck, Mark -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Hole Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 6:27 AM To: MacVisionaries Subject: NAS Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 Hi folks. Has anyone here any experience using this NAS Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 as a remote harddrive for the iTunes library? My music library grows monthly, and I need space to store it on. By now, I have 2 Macs and one Windows computer. I think I'll go for iTunes as the default music application if there arn't any better ideas. Does this sound like a good solution? If not, do you have good alternatives for this purpose? -David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
