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If you have an up-to-date home router and understand computers and the internet somewhat, then you will probably be able to get this product to work for you, and it will work fine. The setup is slow. Amazingly slow actually, where it may take a couple minutes for administrative changes to work. Administrative changes may also require a re-boot of this device and the computer you're using to set it up.<br /><br />You may need to read the manual, which comes on the CD. You may need to update the firmware on the device (I didn't have to, as of Sept 12, 2012.) and the PC or Mac or Linux drivers (I did need to do this, and I was careful not to install features I did not want). Another thing you may need to do is have your router's DHCP reserve a local IP address for the MAC address of this device. (If you don't know what that means, don't buy this!)<br /><br />You may not need to install the Iomega software on your home PCs or Macs, because on up-to-date operating systems the built-in network software will recognize this device and do the right thing. The Iomega software may only be needed for the \"Personal Cloud\" and other backup features. Windows 7 will see the shared disk space under \"Network\" and allow you to assign a drive letter that will work, for example, under cygwin. Finder in Mac OS X will allow you to mount the drive under the \"finder->Go\" menu and this will allow you to select the drive as a TimeMachine backup. Probably a good idea to set up your DHCP so that the local IP address is always the same.<br /><br />Update: 6 months later it has forgotten everything in its programmable memory, including the partitioning of the hard disk.<br />All my data is gone. Except that it's still on the drive, and I was able to recover by disassembling the unit and installing the bare drive in a Linux box.<br />For home use, it's probably best not to enable the \"security\". This is primarily intended to protect areas of the drive from computers on your local network, and home users may want free and open file sharing within their home system. The drive is still protected (more or less, depending on your firewall) from the outside internet as a whole, and backups can still be encrypted.<br /><br />About the Mac interface: the \"search for updates\" button in the version supplied with the CD did not find the new version, I had to go to the Iomega website and find it. Also, Apple \"Time Machine\" files made according to the manual instructions fail. There's an Iomega FAQ on this issue, you have to mount the backup volume on your Mac using the \"Go\" menu in Finder the first time you select it as a Time Machine volume, rather than refer (in the Time Machine setup menu) to the image created by the Iomega software. After that one setup glitch, Time Machine backups work just fine.<br /><br />If you get it all set up, and you install the drivers on your various computers, you will have share volumes that show up on all those machines, even when you're outside your home network. It does email out administrative problem reports, that works fine.<br /><br />In terms of drive longevity, it's probably a good idea to use the \"energy conservation\" feature and set the disk to power down after an hour or so. It will start up again when needed.<br /><br />Of course IT'S JUST A SINGLE DISK, so sooner or later it will fail. Don't store your one-and-only copy of anything on it! If you need reliable long-term storage, go to the cloud or get a network attached storage device with RAID capability.<br /><br />I use it to backup my family's Mac laptops using the \"Time Machine\". This works just fine.<br /><br />It's reasonably quiet, but not absolutely silent --- about as loud as a laptop fan.
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Negative Review