Disk usage can be limited with a range of quotas, which are applied at the directory and file level, and predefined policies are provided making this a swift process. Client support is extensive, with Windows, Unix, Linux, Macintosh and NetWare all on the guest list, and you can activate only those you require.Īccess controls to network shares are good, as you can use local or domain users and groups. All functions are easily accessible from a row of tabbed folders. There’s little difference between the interface used by older Windows 2000-powered appliances and WSS 2003. The latter displays a list of discovered appliances and allows you to modify basic features such as their IP addresses and fire up a remote browser management interface. Installation doesn’t take long, as you can connect a monitor, USB keyboard and mouse to configure the appliance locally or leave Iomega’s Discovery utility to find it on the network. Even so, fault tolerance is good since the system is supplied preconfigured with an 8GB RAID1 mirror for the OS, with the remaining space set up as a RAID5 array for general data storage. The system is supplied with a trio of 164GB SATA/150 drives mounted in removable carriers, but these can only be cold-swapped as all RAID functions are managed by the OS. This allows it to deliver a far more impressive range of features. The 200d delivers a good hardware specification, and it needs to: instead of using the basic Linux kernel of its smaller brethren, it runs Windows Storage Server 2003 (WSS 2003).
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