Tagan Icy Box NAS4220 NAS Enclosure

Installation:

Inside the Tagan Icy Box NAS4220 we had installed two Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB SATA 2.0 hard drives. The installation process was very easy and it had all come together smoothly.

Setup & Performance:

For setting up this unit we had used the web interface from Mozilla Firefox 3.0 inside Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron". While the device itself is built very well and is aesthetically pleasing, the same cannot be said for the web interface. This interface is functional but isn't the slickest interface we have used for this kind of device or even among routers and other networking devices. There were a few alignment issues within the different pages and it could just use some cleaning up. Below are screenshots from many of the areas.

With the dual Seagate 500GB hard drives we had thrown them into a RAID 1 configuration and each drive was formatted to EXT3. The Tagan NAS4220 supports FAT32, EXT2, and EXT3 file-systems. Unfortunately, there is no support for XFS or ReiserFS file-systems. Once EXT4 stabilizes, we would also like to see that available through a software update.

We have been using the Tagan Icy Box NAS4220 for the past several weeks and we are very pleased with this Network Attached Storage device. We have been using it for a print server, transferring files to and from the RAID 1 configuration, and exploring its open-source possibilities. We have been using both NFS and FTP for transferring the files. This device offers fast transfer speeds across the network and to/from other devices connected via USB 2.0.