Iomega Home Media Network Drive user reviews (1TB)

Cons drive not end-user serviceable on February 6, 2010 by melliott716  | Read full review

Cons restrospect backup software doesn't work; poor/frustrating customer support;all of a sudden the folders you create are inaccessible on October 28, 2009 by joey219  | Read full review

Cons EMC Retrospec HD 2.5 software crashes continuously and make the whole computer crash ... on October 6, 2009 by fabricemtb  | Read full review

Cons Does not stream WMA lossless files, Will not work with NTFS USB hard drives on April 11, 2009 by danielnugent  | Read full review

Cons * At least on my network, uploading files can be sluggish
* Is a little noisy on March 12, 2009 by worldblee  | Read full review

Cons Hours on the phone with tech support. Very poor web site for finding windows 7 supported software. Finally tech support concluded the drive has problems .... For another $40 bucks we can send you a replacement... on May 21, 2010 by russeb  | Read full review

Cons Software response is very slow.
Drive inside is amazingly slow. Copy from one folder to another takes hours (literally). 8+ hours for 600Gb.
Gigabit network is a joke. only achieves 10Mb/s on optimized Gigabit network and 6ft CAT6 cable. on January 26, 2010 by jwill27  | Read full review

Cons noisy
hard to set up
clumsy interface (Home Storage manager)
poor install guide and poor help functionality - if you can find this at all
changes between the firmware versions don't give you confidence in the product on November 29, 2009 by tinehan  | Read full review

Cons After updated the firmweare, drive is locked. any small issues, such as stop backup it will cost the system lock. Tech support not helpful. on October 29, 2009 by kunba888  | Read full review

Cons Will not connect to network. Registration website does not recognize the serial number. I bought this at Fry's so it can't be a knockoff, and I've followed the entire ONE page of directions to the letter. on June 30, 2009 by boomchickawowwow  | Read full review

Cons Lack of OS X compatibility, No plug'n'play, no out of the box Timemachine support. on April 18, 2009 by Jarlle007  | Read full review

Cons none exept have to install software for some reson software could be a little better (minor issues) on February 25, 2009 by jonhhhy  | Read full review

Cons The drive has no MAC Address! I was trying to connect it to a secure network (no dynamic IPs), so I needed the MAC address to assign it an IP address. After much work I found it could not connect to the network unless I configured for DHCP. on August 21, 2009 by Biomechanical  | Read full review

Cons very very unstable, crashes so often! and very difficult to operate! most often the drive does not show up! and when it shows, it takes for ever to access a file. on May 10, 2012 by kailashmenon369  | Read full review

Cons After 14 months it dies and because I live in North America only 1 yr Warrant. There are much better products out there to use than this Network Drive for sure. on January 30, 2012 by Dead-Duck  | Read full review

Cons Product did not work with Time Machine. on January 26, 2012 by JM99999  | Read full review

Cons Cannot rely on flickr upload and photo resizing - the process stops, no warning, no resume ability. Cannot make personal cloud work across networks. SMB name drops out one in a while on September 23, 2011 by per-ost  | Read full review

Cons Not a good drive! Can't be used as a start up drive. Poor Customer service. Hard to navigate website. on August 4, 2011 by guyfry  | Read full review

Cons * had some trouble in getting it mounted on linux on May 21, 2011 by harrychillboy  | Read full review