A great value for the consumer." Iomega's latest offering to storage-seekers, announced Oct. 7, is the double-drive StorCenter ix2-200 desktop machine, which is a bit smaller than a standard loaf of bread and almost as quiet, if one believes the product manager. Based on parent company EMC's enterprise-type hardware, the StorCenter ix2-200 NAS machine features big-business data management functionality and advanced media serving, Product Manager Bill Hanson told eWEEK. It also has automatic disk drive spin-down [when the machine isn't being used] for energy efficiency, making it an authentic green machine. It also works with Windows or Mac OS X systems. "We've improved the power savings, the memory power, the number of users it can take and even the quietness of it running on a desktop," Hanson said. "You can barely hear it — you hardly know it's there." The ix2-200, aimed at SMBs and home offices, is available in 1TB ($269), 2TB ($369) and 4TB ($679) capacities.