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Seagate NASes up Black Armor
HARD-DRIVE maker Seagate has released its Black Armor 440 and 420 boxes. These are Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances aimed at the small business market.
The price tag starts at $800 and are aimed at small office environments with up to 50 employees, as well as self-employed professionals who are looking for network-attached storage systems. They come with management utility software and backup software.
Each system is made up of a four-bay NAS device populated with Seagate-built hard disk drives.
The 420 comes with two drives in the four-drive chassis while the 440 has the bays all full. You can jam from 2-8 terabytes and hot-swap the lot.
There are four USB ports and an external power supply. The drives can be configured as a RAID array, and volumes can be encrypted.
The two-drive 2TB configuration costs $800, four-drive configuration costs $1,200 for 4TB, $1,700 for a 6TB system and $2,000 for an 8TB system
