The default Common tab provides immediate access to the most-used features, including Copy Jobs, User and Group settings, shares and the NAS’s status screen. A bar on the left gives you a selection of tabs, each of which has a different range of icons in the right-hand pane. The main interface is a fairly streamlined and approachable icon-based affair, although it responds rather sluggishly.

Iomega recommends having no more than 12 devices connect to your cloud simultaneously, but it can handle an absolute theoretical maximum of 250 devices. You'll have to set up port forwarding on your router to allow remote access, but you'll be given a dedicated URL for your NAS and it's much easier to configure than the DDNS services that are more commonly used to provide remote access to content on a local network. The contents of your NAS will be accessible to anyone you invite to use it. Just give it a name and your email address, and you're ready to go.

The Personal Cloud is incredibly easy to set up. You can either create a personal cloud for this device or join one on another storage device, which is helpful if you use multiple Iomega NAS devices and have already set one up to act as your cloud storage device.

The setup wizard helps you configure the StorCenter ix2's time zone, email notifications via your SMTP server and your Personal Cloud. You can use it solely on your local network, but it's worth noting that keeping the NAS offline will make some of its web-based features redundant, including the ability to access your files via the web.

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