Kudos to Lenovo for keeping this device up to date with latest patches for SSL and services running on it – not a lot of vendors doing this.It’s a pretty hefty download (+200 Mb) and upgrading firmware can take a while (uploading the tarball to the device, extracting, installing, rebooting). In order to upgrade to the newest (4.x) firmware, you’ve got to upgrade using ix2-ng-4.tgz before updating to 4.1.114.3342 (the latest version at time of writing). Mine came out of the box with a 3.x version of the firmware. Upgrade the firmware as soon as you get this thing out of the box, and preferably before you connect it to the internet.Unfortunately, the out-of-the-box firmware has some serious issues. The product also cames in a “cloud” edition, which has some additional software tweaks, but is essentially the same hardware. It was a pretty cheap deal, and came included with two 3 TB Seagate disks for having 6 TB of storage, or 3 TB in RAID 1. Since then, the company was bought by Lenovo, which does the support now. Last year, I bought an Iomega ix2 NAS, a simple box which can hold 2 hard disks for network attached storage.
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