Iomega today announced the worldwide launch of the Iomega iConnect Wireless Data Station at the CES in Las Vegas. It is said to be a powerful yet inexpensive device that provides a simple way to bring all of your USB storage into your network, allowing you to connect, share and access files anywhere, even over the Internet – all for only $99.99 (approximately Rs. 4,540). Iomega markets this as a device to "share files, manage torrents, access your data remotely, backup your PC/Mac and more".

 

The device can be connected to a wired/wireless router and has no onboard storage. Instead it allows users to plug-in an external USB hard drive/pendrive into any of the four USB ports, thus making the storage device accessible over the network or remotely over the web. This way users have incremental storage on their network to save and share files. They can also enjoy capabilities such as a UPnP DLNA Certified AV Media Server that streams photos, audio content and videos to a variety of media devices; a torrent download manager for managing peer-to-peer file transfers; Time Machine support for Apple users; device-to-device replication for data protection; print serving to the network and more. Wired network connectivity is via Gigabit Ethernet, and wireless connectivity is over 802.11 b/g/n.