It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane – No It’s iConnect

iConnect in action!

Such a simple yet innovative device – iConnect

iConnect is so simple it blows our mind. What a great idea – this crappy $5 thumb drive can be turned into a Network Attached Storage device? Come on!

Iomega’s newly launched iConnect will do just that and a heck of a lot more.

It’s being called “a wireless data station” and the thing retails for under 100 bucks. You plug the iConnect into your network and it immediate sets itself up and is now available and seen from any device on the LAN. Now all you need is content and we all have that running out of our ears. Hard drives here, laptops there, thumb drives all over the place! With iConnect’s 4 USB ports you can plug ANY TIME of USB storage device into (thumb drives, external hard drives, you name it). Once plugged in all of those devices will become NAS for your network. Pretty cool!

The iConnect is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux and the iConnect even has a web portal that will let users remotely access content and administer the settings for it. From the web portal, you can copy data between the devices, trigger backups from remote machines and a host of other really cool stuff. To top it all off, iConnect is DLNA certified so it can do DLNA streaming to network aware devices like the PS3 or Tivo.

The device really has some unbelievable functionality for its price. For instance, USB RAID. You can set scheduled drive to drive copies to protect your data. No need to buy expensive RAID bays or large NAS devices just connect a pair of USB drives, and start the process with the web application.

And like the pink bunny with the drum – the list of features just keeps going and going.

Plug a printer into iConnect and it becomes networked and is now a shared printer for all the computers on the network!

Finally, don’t want to mess with the web portal but want to copy all of the data off a device that you just plugged in – no problem! , and iConnect lets you transfer the data from one drive to another with the ‘QuikTransfer’ button right there on the front of the device – POOF!

It’s under $100 people. Get one and get one now.

PS: Mac fans – it has Time Machine support!

Tags: external hard drives, NAS, network storage