... Any HA options such as replication, heart beat etc.

The Thecus N5200pro has dual 1G ports (with support for bonding or failover) and iSCSI, FTP, CIFS & NFS, jumbo frames, etc. Works quite well in my experiance.

But what about performance? I see NFS write speeds of 20MB/sec and read at 40MB/sec using RAID-5 over 5*1TB disks with single 1GB port used, can this box do any better?

I've had two different devices from Iomega - both were poorly designed (or designed to be cheap rather than repairable), and poorly made out of cheap materials in crucial parts. Both were expensive and used expensive media - both failed early in life, and in such a way as to chew up the expensive media.

Never again.

Wot - no snide comment? Oh of course not, that would involve some individual thinking wouldn't it.......

Thanks once again for providing a precis of the press release and not bothering us with any form of useful review.

You can get a Thecus 5200 with iSCSI and 5Tb+ for around $1200.... And I am sure they there are plenty of others, so this is competitive how? Even Qnap and Synology machines are cheaper (and more capable) than this....

We use several of Buffalo's Terastation Pros for our (limited) NAS requirements and I can see almost nothing that this Iomega product does better for the considerable extra cash.

Are there really other boxes with all what Iomega offers in this package ?

* Rack mountable

* SAN + iSCSI

* RAID 5 & 10

* Backed by EMC or other Enterprise class provider

However it's a pity there is no option for redundancy (e.g. dual NIC).