jr.com recently offered the Iomega StorCenter px2-300d 2-Bay Network Storage for $199.99 + free S/H. At 60% of list, this offer was too good to pass up so I purchased one for my Home Lab. SlashGear’s Iomega px2-300d NAS Review and Gadget Review’s Lenovo EMC px2-300d Network Storage Review both detail the px2-300d features and benefits.
Hardware Specifications:
| CPU | Intel® Atom™ D525 @ 1.86 GHz |
| Ethernet | Realtek RTL8111f (x2) 1 GbE |
| RAM | 2 GB DDR3 SoDIMM |
| Flash | 1 MB |
| SATA | Intel 82801IB |
Reported Write and Read Performance Numbers in MB/s:
| Resource | Test | Write | Read |
| SmallNetBuilder | iSCSI | 101.9 | 75.4 |
| NASPT | 111.4 | 71.6 | |
| HARDWARE.INFO | NAS Perf Tester | 75.8 | 94.9 |
| NASPT | 96 | 78.3 | |
| PCMag.com | Unknown | 75 | 68 |
| expert REVIEWS | iSCSI | 135.7 | 80.1 |
| Unknown | 80.3 | 58 | |
| Macworld | Copy 10 GB file | 79.6 | 103.5 |
| Electronista | Unknown | 80 | 71 |
I am concerned about support for the hard drives that I currently own, the HDDs and SSDs approved for px2-300d list is very limited.
As soon as it arrives I will detail drive compatibility and my performance findings.
