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.
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.