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The BlackArmor NAS 4xx products have dual gigabit Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, four HDD bays, hardware-based encryption, remote access via any popular web browser, and various business-minded features. For instance, they ship with 10 licenses for backup software along with support for Active Directory 2003/2008 and up to 50 workstations.
Seagate is charging $400 for the NAS 400 and you should save a bit of cash by purchasing hard drives separately. The company tacks on between $200 and $300 for every 2TB HDD, which is far more than you'll pay for something like the Seagate Barracuda LP, Western Digital Caviar Green or similar "eco-class" drives.
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If you plan on using the RAID capabilities of the NAS, you'd probably want to pick up drives that aren't "eco-class". This is because these drives will stop spinning and park themselves to save energy , which means that to access data, they got to spin back up. This delay can cause a RAID controller to label the drive faulty or unresponsive and degrade your array unnecessarily.
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They call it BlackArmor, yet i can remove the drives with out using a key.
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I really like the idea of these and have been wanting one for years... but they are still a bit too expensive I think and the drive capacities aren't high enough. I wanted a 8-bay one for under $500, but since that was (and still is) un-do-able, I just built a basic file server and used Linux.
Seriously what are you getting for this $400? I just can't imagine that a 4-bay NAS is worth that much cash.
Oh well... at least we're heading in the right direction, just seems a slowly progressing market.
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Looks like Drobo now has some good competition. I'd like to see a price war break out, and the consumer win.
Guest, I think what you're getting on top of storage is the licenses to use their back-up software. Which I've seen and it's pretty easy to use and works well (at least in Windwos XP).
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Well one should think for a sec. the drives that come with it are Enterprise drives (server grade) not consumer grade witch are way cheaper the server grades are designed to run 24/7 and have heavy traffic access 24/7 and won't fail no where near as often as consumer grades will so it is a quality over quantity
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