Px2-300d Firmware Download
Bernice Billy
The Lenovo EMC px2-300d NVR with Milestone Arcus is a small purpose-built 2-bay NAS designed for video surveillance needs of small businesses. It is the new, updated version of the Iomega PX2-300d, which is also now under the Lenovo EMC brand name. Many business owners and companies need video surveillance to monitor their assets and it is predicted that this market will generate over $25 billion worldwide by 2016. With those figures in mind and as analog surveillance is well on its way out, Lenovo EMC has designed some of its popular NAS appliances with video surveillance software from Milestone, the market leader, to help IT resellers get a footing in this market. The Lenovo EMC px2-300d NVR is the first network video recorder (NVR) to use Milestone Arcus, a video management software package that makes the whole process as efficient and simple as possible.
The Lenovo EMC px2-300d NVR only ships as a fully configured product (2HDx2TB) with 4TB total capacity, 2TB with RAID1 enabled. Lenovo EMC also offers the px4-300d, which is a four-bay iteration that comes preconfigured with a 12TB total capacity. As far as cameras go, Lenovo EMC includes four licenses with the px2-300d and sells additional single camera licenses. A one camera license with one year of free software updates retails for $99.99. The Lenovo EMC px2-300d NVR with Milestone Arcus is available around $999. That price is inclusive of a two-year warranty. Our review unit is the standard px2-300d with four licenses and no modifications.
To set up the px2-300d NVR on your network, navigate to Web Setup Portal from a computer located on the network at The Portal provides easy discovery and configuration for your px2-300d. Additionally, you can download and install optional software components, such as Lenovo EMC Storage Manager or Twonky Media Server, or set up a Personal Cloud.
In the System settings section, users will have the ability to restart and shut down their px2-300d. It also displays tabbed information about the fan, device temperature, and voltage as well as information concerning the version, bios, memory, and IP addresses.
In order to fairly evaluate the performance of the Lenovo EMC px2-300d NVR, we need an environment that ensures that the px2-300d is the I/O bottleneck rather than the network. Therefore this review employs a Lenovo ThinkServer RD240 running multiple Windows Server 2012 VMs in an ESXi 5.1 environment connected via a quad-port Intel i350-T4 NIC through a Netgear ProSafe GS752TXS switch.
In the first of our tests, our mixed workload profiles scale the performance across a wide range of thread/queue combinations. In these tests, we span workload intensity from 2 threads and 2 queue up to 16 threads and 16 queue. In the expanded 8k 70/30 test, the Lenovo EMC px2-300d peaked just after the 4 threads, 2 queue mark with its RAID1 volume. iSCSI performance saw improvement between 2T/2Q to 4T/8Q, while SMB performance remained mostly flat with a few spikes of improvements here and there.
Moving on to the 8k 70/30 average response times, the Lenovo EMC px2-300d SMB had sweet spots at the 8T/Q2 and 16T/Q2 marks before latency really started picking up. The SMB had the higher average latency by the end.
Max throughput in our sequential 8k 100% Read/Write testing for the Lenovo EMC px2-300d in iSCSI measured 10,975 IOPS read and 9,379 IOPS write, while the SMB reached 12,802 IOPS read and 13,465 IOPS write. Here, the SMB performance with sequential traffic was noticeably greater than that of iSCSI.
Increasing the transfer size up to 128k in our Enterprise Synthetic Workload, we looked to saturate the networking connections for both iSCSI and SMB. Looking at the 128k performance of 100% write and 100% read activity, the Lenovo EMC px2-300d iSCSI measured in at 115,716KB/s read with a nearly identical write speed of 115,657KB/s. This narrowly edged out the read/write benchmarks of SMB, which clocked in at 114,283KB/s and 114,894KB/s respectively.
The Lenovo EMC px2-300d is a duty-built NAS aimed at small and medium businesses who use video surveillance. The system includes four camera licenses with a full year of Milestone Arcus software updates at no additional cost. It has two drive bays in a durable aluminum chassis with connectivity including both USB 3.0 and dual gigabit Ethernet NICs. It also has a strong hardware configuration with its Intel D525 Atom dual-core 1.8GHz with 2GB of RAM. This build is paired with two enterprise-class Hitachi Ultrastar HDDs, which can be configured at RAID 0 or RAID 1.
In terms of performance the Lenovo EMC px2-300d equipped with 2 x 2TB HDDs in RAID1 offered about 115MB/s read and write over both iSCSI and SMB. Given its smaller size this NAS is designed to work for an office with up to 50 users and support up to 20 cameras. With mixed workloads measuring between 300-400 IOPS depending on the storage interface, users would most likely need to find a balance between the amount of users and amount of cameras accessing the NAS simultaneously. Overall with the low starting price given the value of the camera licenses, Lenovo EMC has a great entry NAS in the SMB market with the px2-300d.
The px2-300d is a very capable device with a user-friendly interface; it would definitely be a welcomed addition to any office looking for a reliable and easy to use video surveillance package out of the box.
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I thought that this product was too old, so I thought about replacing the original firmware to xpenology + synology firmware. can someone describe the steps to me. I thought it was time to replace the original firmware px4-300d after they stopped the service
LenovoEMC provided us with a review unit of the PX2-300D NVR along with two Axis M1031-W IP cameras. The PX2-300D NVR edition is the same as the PX2-300D (specifications below) in terms of hardware. The NVR edition comes bundled with enterprise HDDs (Our review unit had 2x Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 HUA723020ALA640 2TB drives). From the firmware perspective, the NVR edition comes bundled with the Milestone Arcus VMS. Four camera licenses are included. Arcus from Milestone Systems is a new Linux-based VMS solution for embedded systems to go along with their XProtect VMS for Microsoft Windows.
There you can find proper firmware for your device. When you have a link for downloading .tgz like -4.1.406.34763.tgz take b4b-4.1.406.34763.tgz, modify it to b4b-4.1.406.34763.zip and put it after -> -4.1.406.34763.zip
After updating to 4.1.414.34909 on my Lenovo EMC px6-300d, the unit is stuck on the Lenovo EMC boot screen. i have tried using Imager with the latest firmware, booting off of the flash disk by holding down reset, but the unit will sit on the screen with the flash disk and network icon indefinitely. I have removed the drives and tried it with them inserted, but there is no difference.
Please let me know what I can try
Applied the same firmware on my PX4-300d and it is pretty much toast. Nothing I have tried has got the box past 95% where it sits for a long time reboots, and tries again.Even refreshed it with px4px6-4.1.308.34385 and still nothing. I have wasted about two days of my life on this.
I have a PX6-300d with 18TB after a bad shutdown the device still stuck at 95%, I tried your advice but its still not working because I never got a good result of the flashing !! sometime I get the image with the flash and network but its reboot very quickly after reading form the USB and sometimes the device still reading from the USB for hours and not shutdown alone. I tried a lot of firmware but until now not chances. after that I get some random results ! sometime the device still stuck at the logo or 25% or 50% or 75% or 95% not the same result each time.
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