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1. #Storcenter ix2 software install#
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3. #Storcenter ix2 software android#

Next, I took the second drive out of the NAS, leaving me with an empty chassis. dd reported ~22MB/s, so it would have taken ages to copy the whole 1TB anyway. Since I knew I didn’t want the data (I was going to copy it manually later), I interrupted the dd after a while, reasoning that the partition table and the contents of the important first partition would have been copied, and I didn’t care about the 2nd partition’s contents. (I discovered more details later, when I had to mount these drives to get at the old data.) The layout of the NAS drive is described in the above post: it’s two partitions, a small one containing Iomega’s NAS Linux, and a large ~1TB one for the data. This does a byte-for-byte copy of one drive to the other, including partition tables and whatnot. I ran a simple dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc. Using the Ubuntu GUI Disk Utility I could see the models of each device and so know which was the NAS drive (a Seagate) and which the Samsung. Booting the Linux PC, I could then see the drives as new devices, /dev/sda and /dev/sdc. I extracted drive 1 from the NAS (a simple job of taking out two screws and sliding out the removable drive tray) and plugged it in too. So, I took a fresh disk (one of a pair of Samsung 2TB F4EG HD204UI/Z drives) and plugged it into one of two spare internal SATA cables in an Ubuntu Linux box. Being lazy I wondered whether I could just use UNIX dd to copy the old disk to a new one, as this should replicate the partition table and any contents. This fellow’s blog suggests that’s it doable, and describes preparing a disk by partitioning it, creating filesystems, copying key files etc. The project was therefore: get two new 2TB disks into the NAS, and then copy the data from the old 1TB disks.

#Storcenter ix2 software install#

Iomega requires you to buy replacement drives from them at a hefty markup, but it seems you can just install your own (though according to the manual this will void your warranty).

#Storcenter ix2 software upgrade#

So, the time finally came to upgrade them. However, I then discovered the joys of archiving DVDs, and the drives soon filled up. Mainly this was to accommodate my iTunes library, which had outgrown the external drive it used to live on, so I thought 2TB would be more than enough. Inevitably, I bought the cheaper version with two 1TB disks.

#Storcenter ix2 software android#

I mount it over NFS on my Mac to give me seamless filesystem-level access, and it has a DLNA media server which I pointed at the iTunes folder I keep on it, allowing me to browse and listen to music in bed on my phone (via a great little Android app called 2player). It really is quite sexy though.) It’s been a great little device so far. I’m a shallow human being, I bought it mainly because it wasn’t fugly like other NASes. Upgrading the disks in an Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 NASĪ while ago I bought an Iomega ix2-200 NAS box.