?When I browsed to the Web portal once my ix2 was connected online, I saw the message ?Your ix2 is online and ready to use.? From here, users can backup data and consolidate existing files, create a personal Iomega cloud (more on that later), or can manage the ix2. Setup Once the drives and installed and the system is powered up, the device is setup via a web portal at The ix2's setup process reflects an emerging trend among networking hardware vendors that is, bucking a setup CD in favor of online setup. The plastic frames are far easier to work with than traditional metal drive trays. The drive trays are thin, plastic frames that snap to the drives and can serves as a handle for removing drives.

There's a removable front panel to access the drive bays. Adding or removing SATA drives is a tool-less and effortless task. The Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 will restart and all administrator users will revert to non-administrator users. The ix2 supports up to 6TB capacity and RAID 1 mirroring with dual drives. To reset the Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 press the small recessed button on the back. need this data immediately I might have experimented with bigger drives.

The Seagate drive came with a disk, and my motherboard came with. I logged into my Iomega Storcenter ix2 and the dashboard told me the news: A. Two bays support either single or dual drive configurations. I read to use the larger drives I had to use a utility like disk unlocker. Specs The ix2 includes a Marvell 6282 processor, 256 DDR II DRAM, one Gigabit Ethernet port, and a USB 2.0 port for connecting a printer or external USB drive.

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