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Posted on 04/27/2009 9:11:18 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Seagate Surfaces With New Linux NAS Offerings
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Posted by Matthew McKenzie Thursday, Mar 26, 2009, 02:39 AM ET
Small businesses looking for cheap, reliable storage solutions now have another interesting option to ponder, courtesy of Seagate.
There are a number of network-attached storage (NAS) products on the market that are suitable for smaller businesses. But this was a market where Seagate, one of the world's biggest storage hardware vendors, had been conspicuously absent -- until now.
With its BlackArmor NAS product line, Seagate is re-introducing a brand it acquired after purchasing Maxtor back in 2006. The BlackArmor NAS 440, at the top of Seagate's new NAS lineup, supports up to four 2TB hot-swappable drives. Its Linux-based firmware allows users to set up RAID 0/1/5/10 or JBOD options and supports full-system backups, bare-metal restores, and data encryption, among other management features.
LinuxDevices.com has a more detailed summary of the BlackArmor NAS, including some photos. Purchase information, including PDF data sheets, are available at Seagate's Web site.
It looks like the BlackArmor NAS will be a great deal right out of the gate: A NAS 440 equipped with four 2TB drives will retail for around $2,000, and less expensive models will sell for as little as $600. According to Seagate, the BlackArmor NAS is suitable for use in business environments with up to 50 desktop users, depending on the model and amount of storage.
Of course. You don’t need to back up Macs.
It's intended only for Vista and XP.
The data sheet is here.
Instead, what I'm offered is a series of backup systems that back up everything, and if I want to restore, it'll put me right back to the point that caused the need for the restore in the first place, with no intelligence in file or data selection.
I know as a user that the answer's pretty simple, make sure that I do this myself, putting photos, videos and documents in a specific folder chain, backing that up regularly, and create a drive image after installing all needed software on a vanilla system. The problem is that the time I'm least willing and most time impacted is after spending hours and hours installing the operating system and applications.
I can have a vague hope that Seagate has finally addressed this pressing need in the market, but I suspect, from the press release, that once again, they've simply made a new variation of whole system mirroring, resulting in hours long restore processes that simply put the system back to the point it was unstable.
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Yea...right....hard drives just don’t fail in macs right?
Seagate debuts low-power Barracuda LP 3.5" hard drives
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It’s Earth Day today, so what better day for Seagate to roll out a new green range of 3.5″ desktop hard drives.
The Barracuda LP comes in 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB capacities and feature 32MB of cache.
The Barracuda LP has two tricks up its sleeve:
Given the capacities of these drives I expect we’ll see them in NAS boxes and external hard drives before they make their way into PCs. Lower power consumption means less heat, and less heat to have to deal with translates into greater reliability.
Thanks....nice Photo in the PDF document....very attractive ...especially for laptop lovers.
Sometimes I’m shocked when reminded that there actually IS some industry in this county.
LOL
I think I'm gonna be ill. If it's green, let Al Gore stick it where there's no carbon footprint.
Yeah, it’s a minor miracle that any businesses choose to operate at all in the Peoples Republic Of Cruzio.
Although it seems that the level of service (at least w/regards to home repair) here is considerably less than in Santa Cara County. We could use a good plumber.
The poor landowner of the parcel where a proposed Target was to be built is now facing foreclosure by the very city gub’mint that dragged its feet in permitting the store to be built there.
And since it has eSaATA I could use it too,...but I already have a nice setup.
Mac’s don’t die, they just evolve. If a Mac won’t boot it is really telling you don’t want to do what you were about to do.
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Just like any other OPERATING SYSTEM.....it is completely transparent to the hardware....a hard drive could care less what is stored on it, when one goes it goes.....
Where you run into problems, is the registry on windows boxes, where system and user data is commingled such that restoring one or the other separately is difficult, if not impossible.
Example: What is the time frame between the oldest checkpoint and the newest? Personally, I'd like to set up a great many days between oldest and newest to give me the ability to effectively recover from a virus infection that I didn't notice for say...3-4 days. Since the oldest checkpoint 'rolls off', I want control of that time frame.
Or is it set with a default setting that cannot be increased?
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