I was copying pictures to my network drive and I noticed that it was responding slowly. Taking a good ten seconds to draw a.jpg preview. I logged into my Iomega Storcenter ix2 and the dashboard told me the news: “A drive is missing from the device” I immediately made a backup to my workstation. Once copied, I completely shutdown the Storcenter, opened it and checked the connections.

In order to see that it was a drive that had failed and not the board, I swapped the SATA cables for the two drives, tightened it all up and turned it back on. What I next learned was that I have little patience for blinking lights. “What are you doing NAS drive?” I asked. “You respond to a ping, but that’s it.” No web interface Well, let’s see what’s really going on. Connect via SSH and run this command: cat /proc/mdstat You’ll get actual information about what’s going on. At first I saw that the drive was rebuilding and was at 32.4% with 109 minutes remaining. A few minutes later I ran the command and got something like 33.8% with 132 minutes remaining.

Install custom software on Iomega PX4-300D NAS. How to configure iomega StorCenter ix2. Install Freenas On Iomega Storcenter. Classic Iomega ix2. Nov 15, 2010. I logged into my Iomega Storcenter ix2 and the dashboard told me the news: “A drive is missing from the device”. If I do update – it'll be a ix2-dl blank enclosure with 2 WD Red 2TB drives. “I took the drives out and tried to to my pc by installing them in a usb case, but I cant read neither drives.”.

Okay – time to get dinner and wait for this to finish. When I returned, the missing drive was back online and was crisis averted?

The next morning I checked my email and received this from sohostoarge: The Iomega StorCenter device is degraded and data protection is at risk. A drive may have either failed or been removed from your Iomega StorCenter device. Visit the Dashboard on the management interface for details. To prevent possible data loss, this issue should be repaired as soon as possible. 😐 Well, at least my email script still works.

Later that afternoon I picked up a 500GB WD Caviar Green from BB for $56. The Green drives are quieter, a little slower, and use less power – great for this application. I took the ix2 apart AGAIN, and removed the barely 3 year old Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 out of the device. I know that people have hardware preferences out there, and I know they differ, but here’s mine: I don’t buy Seagate drives. I’ve been a computer tech for over ten years. ( Of course I bought the ix2 without knowing it comes with 2 of them 🙂 ) After closing up the drive I powered the NAS up and watched the magic. The new drive rebuilt and I got a steady blue light on my ix2 when I checked later the next day.

No linux commands, no format, no partition, no RAID – just replaced the dead drive with a new one of the same size and we’re back in business. Am I pissed that this drive failed in 3 years? Did the Iomega ix2 do its job and kept my data safe? If I didn’t need this data immediately I might have experimented with bigger drives, but I think I’ll upgrade to the ix4 before I ever try to upgrade the capacity of this little guy.

I’m been trying to download and update the firmware on my iX2, but the tgz file from the Iomega site is corrupted. I sent a note about the problem to customer support and all I got was a link to the same download. The corrupted file still fails — not impressed with Iomega. Igrica Komsija Iz Pakla 1 Za Igranje. I’ll look at a fan graft for my device, but I just got a Synology 410 going and the Iomega NAS will just host files I can afford to lose. Thanks for your posts on the iX2. There’s a real desert of information and I was happy to find this little oasis.

Hey Philip, Just yesterday my ix2 froze up while trying to print. I could ping it, but no response to http or ssh. This occasionally happens and I had to do a hard reset. It came back up fine and reported no issues with the old Seagate drive and the newer WD Green that’s in there.

This did however cause me to re-evaluate my NAS options. The fan has been fine, and my port re-write script still works great. It’s now about 3/4 of the way full. Which is not a big deal – it’s just that most desktop PC’s come with 250GB drives and 500GB of RAID 1 storage doesn’t seem like as much (sliding into 2013). I set my office up with 2 1x-200’s (1TB) that connect over VPN and I was considering moving up to those. As it’s Christmas I looked for a sale Well it seems the ix-200’s are discontinued?! The replacement is known as the ix2 (confused yet) or more specifically the ix2-dl.

Check this article here: If I do update – it’ll be a ix2-dl blank enclosure with 2 WD Red 2TB drives. Watch for a write up. Hi Kris, I have a similar situation like you.

The Iomega StorCenter device is degraded and data protection is at risk. A drive may have either failed or been removed from your Iomega StorCenter device. Visit the Dashboard on the management interface for details. To prevent possible data loss, this issue should be repaired as soon as possible I cant connect via web so I am not sure what is going on. I took the drives out and tried to to my pc by installing them in a usb case, but I cant read neither drives.

I will try to book up ix2 by swapping the drives next. Please let me know if you have any other suggesiton?

“I took the drives out and tried to to my pc by installing them in a usb case, but I cant read neither drives.” These are Linux formatted drives so your XP / Windows 7 / 8 machine is not going to see these native. You have a couple of options: Option#1: Put the drives back in the ix2 and hope they start. It may take 10 min before the shares show up so you’re going to need to be patient. Once (IF) the shares show up – copy everything to your PC ASAP. The reason the web isn’t responding is becuase 80% of the little CPU is working on rebuilding the data on the broken drive. Option #2: Make a “Live CD” and boot your PC up with Linux – Ubuntu (or better yet Mint ) and then try your “installed in a USB case” to see if you can see one of the drives once you’re booted up.

Keep in mind your going to have to dig around to find your shares – I think they are under /mnt/soho_shares/ The GUI is pretty easy. This one might interest you. I have an ix2-dl with 2 WD Red 2TB drives. I was creating a purge/tidy up script that would organize daily/weekly backups by date and then purge when they were no longer needed. Apparently there was an error in my script and it targeted the filesystem on the storcenter.

I caught it after it moved/purged /bin and /boot and carefully moved all the files back to their original locations with what commands were left in the memory (only had rsync and ‘double-tab’). Before rebooting it, I had full functionality — web/ssh/commands/shares. Now I cant access it or ping it.

I thought it was a read only file system?? Got any ideas?

I have a feeling that it has a set of files that need to be on one of the drives. When you replaced with 2 WD HDD’s – Did you pop them both in and start the drive? That tells me that the firmware / flash writes to the drive and sets it up.

I never experimented with this – but you could try: Grabbing the data off the old drives if you still have them. Starting it up with a clean formatted drive.

Pull one of your data drives (for safe keeping if you have data on it) and reset the device with the reset button. I guess it’s possible that you deleted the contents of the flash memory. What about using the “locate my NAS drive” program from Iomega and seeing if it even has networking? Hi, I’m a happy ix4-200d owner who had his first disk failure this morning. When I woke up I got the email saying: “The Iomega StorCenter device is degraded and data protection is at risk. A drive may have either failed or been removed from your Iomega StorCenter device.

Visit the Dashboard on the management interface for details. To prevent possible data loss, this issue should be repaired as soon as possible.” When I opened the web interface and dashboard it said “disk 4 not found”. So I decided to shutdown all running servers on the ESXi and disconnect all devices to prevent further risk. After that I opened up the device replaced the “Seagate 2TB Barracuda LP” with a “WD 2TB Caviar Green” and closed up the device. After that I booted up the device to start the rebuild procedure. The little display says: StorCenter ix4 ======= 95% ===== The web interface hasn’t come back up since this morning, it’s been 12 hours now. When I connect through SSH and execute the same command as in the post above: cat /proc/mdstat.

In the hope to see any progress. But instead I got this: Personalities: [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0: active raid1 sda1[0] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] 2040128 blocks [4/3] [UUU_] unused devices: The NAS itself was configured to be RAID 5 with 4 disks.

Now it says it got an “active raid 1”. Should I be worried? And if so, any advice for someone who has his lives-work on these disks. I assumed a NAS would be a safe solution to keep my most precious data on? I will give it until tomorrow evening before I really start panicking, but any advice or re-assurance from you guys would help me to have a good night sleep. Thanks in advance!!

I am here like desperate. The IX2-DL crashed the HDD, just a fast blink Blue and White LEDs. Replaced the HDD with an almost new working formatted 500GB Maxtor HDD. Now blue LED is steady on, but white led blinks once a second. I wonder if there is some necessary file inside the HDD for the IX2 go ahead. Pressing the reset button on the back doesn’t change anything. I tried all possible combinations, holding for 4, 5, 8, 20, 500 seconds, while power on, while power down, no changes.

I can have some LAN IP scan recognizes the “Iomega” on 192.168.5.119, but that is it. No port answer on that address, it means no http page from the unit, no answer from browser. If I turn power IX2 off, the ping on such IP doesn’t answer, so, it is the Iomega IX2 there. What can I do? That unit cost me good money two years ago. What can I do to recuperate it? Why IP ping answers and nothing else?

I opened the device, no blotted capacitors, nothing broke or visible damaged. 5Vdc is okay. HDD is spinning, hence it got blue led steady on.

At a glance Product Iomega StorCenter Network Storage (ix2-dl) [] Summary Two drive RAID 1 Marvell Kirkwood NAS with iSCSI, backup to/from rsync targets and CIFS shares, secure remote access and media services. Pros • Lots of features • Supports backup to cloud, rsync and SMB targets • Supports Apple Time Machine Cons • Remote access requires port forwarding Iomega has been slowly improving its consumer NAS offerings, adding features and boosting performance. This time, it's the dual-drive ix2 that gets a facelift. The last time, remote access 'cloud' features were added to the ix2-200 [], resulting in the ix2-200 'Cloud Edition' (CE). The ix2-200 CE didn't have any hardware changes, so we didn't review it.

But we took at look at the CE features when Craig the single-drive Home Media Network Hard Drive - Cloud Edition over on SmallCloudBuilder. This latest change drops both the 'Cloud Edition' and '-200' from the ix2's moniker, leaving it as just the plain ol' StorCenter ix2. This new beastie comes in 2, 4 and 6 TB versions populated with two 1, 2 and 3 TB drives, respectively. There is also a diskless version—the ix2-dl (model # 35887)—that Iomega sent for review, so that we could get the whole experience of installing drives from scratch. The ix2 has all-metal construction except for the slip-off front and screwed-on rear covers and no-fasteners-required hard drive frames.

Front panel indicators are minimal as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Iomega ix2-dl front panel callouts The rear panel (Figure 2) is similarly sparse. For those who care, the 10/100/1000 Ethernet port supports 4,000 and 9,000 Byte jumbo frames. (I stopped caring awhile ago since the performance current-day Ethernet interfaces have outpaced the need for jumbo frames.) Figure 2: Iomega ix2-dl rear panel callouts Inside You can see the small main board when you install the drives. But for a good look, I had to disassemble the ix2 to take the photo below. Figure 3: ix2-dl board Table 1 summarizes the key component information and compares it to previous-generation ix2's.

RAM and flash sizes remain unchanged from the -200. The main change is a somewhat beefier processor. I'm told the new processor is the same as a Marvell 88F6282 Kirkwood. It seems that Marvell is playing around with part numbers to help keep product teardown fans guessing. Iomega ix2 (new) Iomega ix2-200 Iomega ix2 (original) CPU Marvell 88F62E2A1C160 Kirkwood @ 1.6 GHz Marvell 88F6281 Kirkwood @ 1 GHz Marvell 88F5182 'Orion' Ethernet Marvell 88E81318 Marvell 88E81116R Marvell 88E1118 RAM 256 MB 256 MB 128 MB Flash 128 MB 128 MB 4 MB Table 1: Component summary and comparison.