[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I would assume this is a Windows offering.....but so far can't verify that.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Did find this ...for Linux interest:

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.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Of course. You don’t need to back up Macs.

[snowsislander]

I would assume this is a Windows offering.....but so far can't verify that.

It's intended only for Vista and XP.

The data sheet is here.

[kingu]

I have to admit, what I, as a consumer, would really love, would be a backup system that was intelligent enough to do the following: Reinstall the base operating system and applications as installed. Maintain a constant archive of digital photos and created documents. And be able to restore both sets onto a computer in less than an hour, permitting me to flush the system on a semi-regular basis.

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.

[martin_fierro]

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[Still Thinking]

"eliminates the need to manually learn, manage, or dedicate any time to the backup process" is just sales-speak for "we give the user no control over our program".

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