As my tiny desk disappears still further under a mountain of crap, I yearn to just stick everything but the computer in a cupboard, the collection of cables and flashing LEDs safely contained. What I need is a NAS.

And if Iomega's new terabyte box manages to keep its price down on its journey across the Atlantic, I might just have found one. The StorCenter ix2 is a networked hard drive with gigabit (10/1000) ethernet, UPnP support (which, for any security minded person will be useless), iTunes server support (I think it just means you can keep your library on there, like any other external drive) and some Windows-only backup software (EMC Retrospect). There are also a couple of USB ports, and the ix2 works as a print server.

Inside, the terabyte is split across two drives, and RAID 1 support means you can mirror your data for safety. Available at the end of the month in two sizes, 1TB for $300 and 2TB for $480.

Product page [Iomega via BBG via Crunchgear]