iomega 34766 2TB Home Media Network Hard Drive, Cloud Edition

Pros: The drive works great. I have it set up as a cloud and it seems to be fine. full control over it, no problems.

Cons: Once you install the software, it hijacks your web browser!! I thought at first it was just some junk i picked up on the internet, but after using peerblock (shows IP's your computer connects to and blocks bad ones) IOMEGA is being blocked about every 5 seconds. If i turn peerblock off, Google search redirects me to random sites, including "easy cash", fake versions of Google, and junk websites. If i turn peerblock back on, i can surf just fine, but everytime i click a link in google, "IOMEGA" comes up on my peerblock as being blocked.

Before i wrote this article, i wanted to confirm this. I installed the same software on my laptop, and afterwards it does the SAME THING. it hijacked my entire laptop and only with the help of PeerBlock can i surf the web normal now. my spyware remover and antivirus can not pick it up. i surfed the web and found that it is hidden deep in many files and won't easily be removed unless you do it manually.

It is a really sad day when "trusted" companies sell you viruses. To top it off, they want you to share the program with your friends and co-workers so that they have access to your cloud. that means that they are hijacking EVERY computer who installs this junk.

I WARN YOU, DO NOT INSTALL THIS PROGRAM ON YOUR COMPUTER OR ALLOW YOUR FRIENDS TO INSTALL IT.

IOMEGA, i want to hear your response to this! if you were an american company, your company would be sued by everyone. This is horrible buisness practice, i can not believe you would do this to someone! You can not even deny it, I have your IP being logged every time i click something in Google. THE IP IS KNOWN TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR COMPANY and i am ONLY HIJACKED AFTER I INSTALLED YOUR PROGRAM ON MY COMPUTER AND LAPTOP.

The IP address that are being blocked are:
147.178.248.90

THAT ADDRESS IS OWNED BY YOU, YOU ARE PAYING THE BILL FOR IT. how comes everytime i use google it gets blocked?? how come if i ALLOW that IP and NOT BLOCK IT i get sent to some advertisemnt website?!??!

IOMEGA, that is HORRIBLE, your company is going to be avoided at ALL COST IN THE FUTURE. no one is going to buy junk from a company that installs SPAM and hijacks your webbrowers!

NEWEGG, I EXPECT YOU TO HAVE A VERY LONG CONVERSATION WITH IOMEGA AND ASK THEM ABOUT THIS HIJACK JOB THEY PULLED. I ALSO WANT EVERYONE ELSE who is using this product to do a quick google search and click the first link a few times. they will quickly see it is sent to random websites.

Other Thoughts: GET OUT OF THE USA MARKET

Pros: I can't use it yet I do not know.

Cons: I can't use it at all because the product don't coming with seriral numer. I am stud now. I call newgggs but they want me to call manufacturing company.
My questio how come selling the product is is not ready to use it. Cheaper does not mean better quality.

Other Thoughts: no responsablity at all. Focus on VIC.

Pros: It has a small footprint

Cons: DO NOT USE if you have Macs. This drive does not play well with Apple OS, or iTunes and makes a trainwreck of Time Machine backups. I continued to try, using it as a media server for video files, but finally had to remove it after it would not allow my networked macs to boot up, stalling the Finder and ultimately crashing them. iOmega has not properly thought out the software interface and any calls to tech support only got responses of "it works fine for us. Call Apple."

Other Thoughts: I was able to scavenge the 2TB drive out of it for use in a higher grade NAS box so it wasn't a complete loss.

Pros: After reading alot of the reviews I wasn't sure if i should buy this...But for the promotional price.I wanted to give it a try.

so far this cloud edition harddrive
has been great.It allows me to access any of my files from anywhere that I have an internet connection with no problem...Itotally think its worth the price to buy this product.

Cons: Not as fast...

Pros: 1. Speed not that bad, was hitting the low 40's.
2. Very easy to set up backups.. really liked the one touch backup.

Cons: 1. Very confusing at first.. Never did get the remote access working reliably.
2. Got this mainly as a media server, but it doesn't pass .mkv files to a Samsung TV until you access the Twokey sever and change generic device to Samsung... BUT... It doesn't save the changes. If you lose power, turn it off, or reboot, you have to change everything back.
3. After about 30 day the webui wouldn’t load up, so I couldn’t change any settings. Everything else was working, just couldn’t change anything. Customer support wasn’t that bad… better than most and seemed to know what they were talking about.. and was quick to give me a RMA#.
4. So… Iomega sent me the RMA e-mail with mailing label to cut out and tape to the box.. My address, their address, the RMA# and all it on it.. cool. $25 bucks and 3 days later they get it… 10 day later I get the same UN-OPENED box back.. looks like they refused it.

Other Thoughts: Do yourself a favor.. get something else.. For $100 more(less than that after wasted shipping) got a different brand 2 drive nas and this thing just works!!! Very easy to set up and manage… Plays nice with my Samsung, remote access works, Cloud.. you name it… just works.. (Up time is now 22 days.. Iomega never made it 2 days) The drive from the Iomega is now in the Synology.
I do miss The One Touch Backup on the Iomega

Pros: This item worked for 3 months as a decent network storage drive cheap with allot of memory

Cons: Couldn't get service from iomega and now it's out of warranty. Totally dead.
Internet capiblities never worked, even after relentless rude customer service agents refused to help over and over.

Other Thoughts: Don't buy this from Iomega, there are better ones out there I've had good luck with the dlink.

Pros: Easy to use, Cheap

Cons: Frequently drops network connections. Constantly corrupts PDF files. Bad customer support. Slow. Not easy to add storage.

Other Thoughts: I have had two of these units and will not get another. I should not have got the second one. I can not in good conscience recommend to anyone except my worst enemy.

Pros: when it works it's very fast.

Cons: if you leave it for a certain period of time without using it, it freezes. After you reset it, it starts working again. It is very inconvenient to turn it on every time i want to use it.

Pros: Easy setup, works well with Windows XP, Vista and 7, works even better with Ubuntu and a HTPC running XBMC and a really good price for 2TB, you can add usb hard drives and use them as additional storage in your NAS or add a usb printer and have a network printer.

Cons: Web interface is slow and badly designed every click wants to open another tab or window, it would have been nice if you could manage files instead of just viewing and deleting them. Torrent software is a joke it's there but just barely, you can install the Iomega Storage Manager but it adds no value you should just map the drive as you would a network drive.

The Application Manager is great, well at least It would be if there were any apps to manage.

Other Thoughts: Hardware is pretty good software not so much

Pros: First of all I'd like to say that the reviews that this drive is getting is due to the fact that most of them have had some sort of networking issue due to their own ignorance. I've owned this NAS drive for over a year now and it's done everything I've wanted it to, flawlessly. I use it mainly for my onsite backup of my work PC, and streaming music/movies. Easy to configure WAN access, it's saved me at school plenty of times when I forgot my jump drive. I've had NO access issues as others are reporting. I simply have all the different partitions of the drive as mapped drives on my Win 7 machine, and I transfer documents and music just about everyday. I'm able to complete a full backup from my PC to the NAS drive in about an hour and a half on a gigabit connection. All my devices pick up the drive no problem. You just need to know how to build an efficient network. It's my passion :)

Cons: None.