Yesterday Iomega announced the launch of a new series of network hard drives called Home Network Hard Drives. The new hard drives will be available in three capacities, 320GB, 360GB and 500GB.
The Iomega Home Network Hard Drive are based on 10/100 Ethernet technology, and with the help of the Ethernet cable the external hard drive can easily be connected to the home router too.
All the new Iomega external hard drives feature 200 RPM SATA-II hard drives with 8MB cache.
“Today, the most common use for home networks is to enable shared Internet access,” said Tom Kampfer, president and COO, Iomega Corporation.
“Families are struggling with how to organize data across multiple PCs. Shared network storage made easy and affordable with Iomega’s new Home Network Hard Drive adds the benefit of securely sharing and consolidating photos, music and video over a home family network, as well as increasing storage and backup capacity. At less than $150.00, the Iomega Home Network Hard Drive is a new price-performance milestone for networking today’s digital home,” added Kampfer.
Home Network Hard Drive are based on 10/100 Ethernet technology. All three models of the new Iomega Home Network Hard Drive include a USB 2.0 port
Besides, the new range of hard drives is compatible with Windows 2000 Professional; XP Home/XP Professional/XP Professional x64; Windows Vista(TM) Home Basic/Home Premium/Business/Ultimate, Mac OS X 10.2.7 or higher and Linux Linux distributions including Redhat 9, Mandrake 10, Debian 3.0, Gentoo, and FedoraCore 3.
The 320GB Iomega Home Network Hard Drive is available now at the price of $149.00, while the 500GB Iomega Home Network Hard Drive is now available for $199.00. However the 360GB Iomega Home Network Hard Drive is expected in the market by next month at the price of $149.00.
