However, the SATA drives are hot swappable – a feature you really need if you want to minimize downtime.įigure 1 shows the features of the front panel of the BA 440. Unlike the TeraStation III, the BlackArmor 440 does not support RAID 5 with a hot spare. Other possible configurations include JBOD, RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10.

The NAS 440 is shipped from the factory configured for RAID 5 to provide the maximum amount of fault-tolerant storage. The BlackArmor family consists of four products: the 2 TB BlackArmor NAS 420 (2 X 1 TB), and three models of the NAS 440 with capacities of 4 TB (4 X 1 TB), 6 TB (4 X 1.5 TB), and, 'coming soon', (according to their website) 8 TB (4 X 2 TB). But in its first attempt at a business-focused product, Seagate has neglected to include some obvious features for this market.

Now, Seagate has entered the market with its first family of four-drive NAS products aimed at the same buyers. Recently, we reviewed Buffalo Technology’s new TeraStation Pro III, the latest addition to Buffalo’s family of NASes targeted at the small office market.

No MacOS backup client or Time Machine support.Remote web-based access easy to setup and worked well.10 Windows client licenses for full-featured backup software.Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 ( ST340005SHA10G-RK)įour drive NAS that supports multiple RAID configurations, DLNA server and remote web access Introduction Updated : Fixed reference to link aggregation.

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