Testseek.com have collected 27 expert reviews of the Lenovo Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station and the average rating is 75%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Lenovo Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station.
April 2010
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The editors liked
Small and compactSupports wireless printing and HDDsIntegrated WiFi should you need it
Four USB ports with support for both storage and printers
Internal WiFi N/G adapter
Reads about as fast as USB 2.0 will go
Very flexible backup features including to/from networked shares
Apple Time Machine support
Torrent downloader
Perfect for a small household with lots of USB drives hanging around. Easy setup. Cross-platform.
Affordable. Easy to use. Doesn't sacrifice features.
Puts any USB drive to work as network storage
Full featured
Easy to configure
Crossplatform support
802.11n option
Printer server
Media server
Affordable
Easily upgradeable
Quiet
Advanced feature set
Four USB ports
Wired performance similar on par with a PC
Small and unobtrusive
The Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station is compact
Good-looking
Easy to use
And affordable. It can host multiple USB external hard drives and printers. It also comes with some good features and supports both PCs and Macs
Including Apple's Time Machi
Inexpensive NAS solution
Built-in Wi-Fi
Built-in print server
Mac OS Time Machine support
The editors didn't like
Refuses to work well with mixed platformsTroubleshooting nearly impossibleBundled software is truly awful
Limited media streaming configuration options
Remote access requires payment after the first year
Limited wireless controls
No wireless link / activity light
Remote Access software is clunky
And it requires subscription after the first year.
Upload time for a large file using wireless was painfully slow.
No USB 3.0 support
No FTP access
Lacks RAID mirroring Remote access requires paid service after one year
As Iomega has continued to expand its range of network storage products
The company recently added an entrylevel device
The iConnect
Which works with USBattached drives instead of integrated disks. The latest offering is geared for simplicity
While still supporting advanced NAS capabilities such as remote access
Print
Extremely slow Wi-Fi performance
Severe reliability issues
Occasionally awkward admin software
The Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station's performance could be better compared with full-size NAS servers. Its USB ports are not optimally positioned
Most are on the front. The device doesn't support USB 3.0 nor does it come with any backup software in
Limited remote access
Remote access requires subscription after first year
Reads about as fast as USB 2.0 will go, Very flexible backup features including to/from networked shares, Apple Time Machine support, Torrent downloader
Limited wireless controls, No wireless link / activity light
Marvell Kirkwood-based USB drive to NAS converter with media serving, Torrent downloading and more...
Abstract: Sharing files – whether a central document store, a single place for backup or a huge multimedia library – is becoming more popular, and we’re seeing an increasing number of devices promise to take your regular USB storage and make it network-friendly....
The Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station is compact, good-looking, easy to use, and affordable. It can host multiple USB external hard drives and printers. It also comes with some good features and supports both PCs and Macs, including Apple's Time Machi
The Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station's performance could be better compared with full-size NAS servers. Its USB ports are not optimally positioned, most are on the front. The device doesn't support USB 3.0 nor does it come with any backup software in
The Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station is a great device to quickly turn your USB external hard drives into a robust network storage solution. Its compact design and ease of use more than make up for its average throughput performance, which is fast...
The main problems I had with the iConnect mostly dissolved into niggles once I'd applied the firmware upgrade. If Internet access to your drives is important, go for the Pogoplug. Otherwise the iConnect is more generally useful and cheaper, if still, ...
The Iomega iConnect is cheap and has some useful features, but unless you're on a strict budget or have very light file sharing needs its poor performance isn't worth putting up with. ...
The Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station is a neat little device. It isn't a USB 3.0 product, but as SuperSpeed USB is backward-compatible and the extra speed would likely be mitigated by the network's own performance bottlenecks anyway, that drawbac...
All in all we found the Iomega iConnect to be reliable and easy to use. It executes its function perfectly and for such an affordable device we found it very impressive. If you’d like to keep connected to your external data devices or if you have an e...
Abstract: Junto con el ScreenPlay TV Link, el Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station es la segunda categoría de producto del fabricante de almacenamiento que no incorpora disco duro. Curiosidades al margen, este producto hace del almacenamiento en red un juego d...
