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Product ReviewsSeagate ST320005LSA10G-RK BlackArmor NAS 220
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 Rating: Review Date: 09/15/13 |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/26/13 |
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Interface a bit clunky, but it's all there. No way to force NIC to run at 100MB. Transfer among Gigabit NAS and 100MB Pc was frustratingly slow, as others have reported, till I stumbled upon a repair. Following about 45 days, I lost a drive. That's just outdoors of Newegg RMA variety. Now I get to locate out if Seagate's warranty service is as undesirable as reputed. Have previously posted somewhat favorably; this is an update. I place the NAS on a 100MB switch and that appears to have solved the awful transfer speeds challenge. Seriously wishing now that I had gone for a pricier unit. Manufacturer Response:I am glad you posted a second posting concerning transfer speeds. A ten럼 switch/router is going to have a lot superior transfer speeds with a NAS as network website traffic/device can greatly effect speed efficiency, no matter if it be positively or negatively. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/01/13 |
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- Uncomplicated Setup. Was out of the box and working in 10 minutes- Decent speed. Usually superior wired than wireless but very good sufficient to stream for a house network.- Streams content flawlessly to every single device in my house which includes Computer's Ɠ), Xbox 360, PS3, Samsung BD-5500 Blue Ray and was easily discoverable by every device.- Small type factor. Put it in a corner of your home and neglect about it. - Seagate Management software program left anything to be desired.- A tiny louder than I would have anticipated from such a smaller box but still barely noticeable.- Transfer speed from wireless left anything to be desired nonetheless streaming any content material wirelessly functions with out a hitch. I purchased this with the intention of making use of it for my residence network and to access files on the net via the online. I literally opened the box, plugged it in, threw in the cd, and boom, functioning. The software program that comes with it is typical at finest and gave you minimal setup alternatives. Really after I installed it on every single Pc the software didn't even genuinely function at all. On the other hand the internet based configuration tool when accessing the box is far more than adequate to make up for it. Setting up folders and users with specific share permissions was straightforward. All of my devices recognized the box devoid of an concern. - NOTE: Due to the fact of the low high quality management computer software, you will almost certainly want at least a moderate expertise base of computer systems/networks. Certainly not expert material by any suggests. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/17/13 |
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It makes a fantastic bookend. My intention was to use this as a media server, half of my library comes up as unsupported video, it all plays incredibly effectively when streamed from my computer system. I also planned to use as a print server, it only print an error msg, printer operates fantastic when connected to my computer system. I planned on carrying out manual backups, I knew it would be slow but 3MB/s, took 4 hrs to copy 60gigs. Also BlackArmor Discovery will not uncover, not a major deal after I identified a work about. Manufacturer Response:Seagate has not too long ago had a firmware upgrade so most video types are now supported. It is also critical to note that network site visitors (whether it be the quantity of men and women on the network or the variety of router being used - for example, 10럼 routers and/or routers that usually time out will typically perform incredibly gradually on the network). The transfer speeds must be significantly more rapidly than 3MB per second and the two aforementioned difficulties would explain why the transfer prices have been this slow. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/19/13 |
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Flashy hunting software program. Can not total the most fundamental process. HORRIBLE buyer support. I bought this device for my organization's smaller server for the task of constantly monitoring a handful of crucial folders. Recognizing the device on the network was fine, as was setting up the backup process. I was disappointed to learn that you can't do actual-time continuous backups, as the bullet points indicate - the greatest you can do is incremental backups every single handful of minutes. That would be fine, i guess, if it didn't fail Each TIME.The point completes a single backup in ~ 40 mins, then hangs instead of beginning the subsequent a single. E-mail notification of the challenge doesn't work. When I try to view the archived files on the NAS drive, my computer crashes consistently. When I attempt to study the useless enable file, the computer software crashes. Right after submitting a complaint to tech support by email, I wait 2 weeks and hear nothing at all. When I call, they inform me it should be some other computer software on my server and I really should download the newer version of their software. The ISO I'm provided is for the previous version. Excellent job. Manufacturer Response:The application comes with backup software powered by Acronis that can generate complete system backups. With no further detial of the errors, it is advisable you try to resolve the problem by installing the most recent BlackArmor firmware update. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/06/13 |
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A descent device in you get additional than what you pay for. The Nas comes patched with the newest firmware from Seagate. As soon as plugged into the network, the admin interface configures very easily and reliably. I Noticed this patch that there is now a thermal sensor for monitoring temperature.The share permissions security is easy enough for a novice as nicely; Makes it possible for each user and group level safety locally without having domain. Device is a bit slow on rapid ethernet 10럼 switch. only clocked five.4mbps typical speed. Noticed the drive operating a bit warmer than i would like. 104-110 F most of the time. has an air exhaust fan but no air intake fan.Lastly, it's automatic backup is for Nas2USB, USB2Nas, and Nas2Nas, but no selections for USB2USB even although it has two usb ports present. if you are skilled with networks and don't need the automatic backup software program or net access to your files, then skip it and just add it to your network wit the map network drives immediately after configuring through the web interface. Manufacturer Response:The NAS 220 has a ten럼 Ethernet Connection, so there can be troubles if you are utilizing only a fast Ethernet ྪ럼) switch. For a 2TB item with USB to USB backup, we would suggest employing two 2TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desks. The USB Ports on BlackArmor products are mainly utilized as either print servers along with NAS to USB or USB to NAS backup. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/25/13 |
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two drives Raid 1 mirror to hold pics and information secure. Tb = Lots of space. Effortless set up. Great value. none Thanks to other comments to guide me to exactly what I have been seeking for. Value, service, information: Newegg is good. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/10/13 |
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Initially time NAS buyer. Several functions: printer server, remote access and file sharing, streaming devise, backup, contains two terrabites drives! ƑTB every single). Simple to configure. Functions on XP, 7, Lunux Ubunto, Mac (still to test). Streams movie files fine. I have it set up as a back up Mirrored drive and attach an external USB drive with media, streams and copies files fine. Have but to try itunes function. General satisfied with purchase, good value. Attempted it with Xbox 360, streams photos and music fine, but you possibly know about the movie streaming problems with the Xbox (Xbox 360 is for games anyway). Printer server function is indeed slow, USB cable direct printer hookup is a lot more rapidly, you've greater off making use of a Canon printer with eithernet port alternatively. But I don't count as adverse mainly because of other capabilities. Just the 2T drives integrated are purpose sufficient to get this baby. Do the math 2x89, 269-178ᠯ for a NAS enclosure, practically nothing comes close! Finest issue is, you can add extra storage via the 2 USB ports. Newegg is the best! |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/12/13 |
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Good small NAS when you get it functioning, management interface is a tiny clunky but adequate. Very good worth for the price, at the time I purchased anyway. Transfer rates are a fairly consistent 𞲭Mbit\sec, again decent for the cost. As stated in the title, doesn't perform when straight attached to a D-Link switch (or router from what the internet says). Read speeds peak about 150kbit\s in that situation. Pop a hub, one more switch or fundamentally something in between the Seagate device and something D-Link and you're OK.Does not come flash with existing computer software, the constructed in update utility doesn't uncover available updates either. The D-Hyperlink annoyance aside, a good if somewhat quirky box. If you don't have the expertise\patience to chase down weird errors I wouldn't acquire it.Had I bought it anyplace without a restocking fee it would have been returned promptly. Admittedly it does perform now, immediately after a couple hours wasted chasing down errors I would not have anticipated to see, and haven't noticed in 10+ years from mainstream makers. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/29/13 |
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A year and a month later, it operates just fine. Keeping my fingers crossed, of course... Took me a although to figure out how to delete files from it (they seem to be moved to some hidden backup folder rather of getting deleted). Weird, and a bit confusing. |
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Rating: Review Date: 11/19/12 |
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Incredibly low-cost for 1TB of mirrored storage (via 2 1TB drives). The bundled backup software is decent. The "Black Armor" find software program typically can\'t "discover" the drive. You can just browse to it's IP to manage, rather. You can see it with other network discovery tools and with Windows Explorer so I am not certain why the single purpose software program gets clueless. I installed this to backup 4 Computer's at my local Church, to replace a house grown information-only backup scheme involving some scripts and shares. Total backups of each machine take a couple of hours, so I do the complete backups weekly. The data backups are considerably quicker, so I do them nightly, staggered enough so that no two Pc's are trying to do them at the exact same time. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/08/12 |
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nothing notable. Soon after a couple of months a single of the hard drive has failed. This solution sucks. The computer software automatically moves your files to where it THINKS it belongs! Like if it locate images its going to move it to image folder regardless if its part of a system directory that i'm storing,. and so forth. It's noisy. It does some thing every single hour or so continually even with my laptop or computer off. There's so significantly issues I have with this I can't remember them all. All I know is that I blew 3 bills considering I got anything much better than what was presently out in outlets. =( Neglect the factory warranty, i've currently wasted as well substantially time. I'm taking into consideration this a loss. Manufacturer Response:When a tough drive fails, the data need to automobile-migrate over to the drive that the NAS is backing up to. When the initial drive fails and is replaced, your information should automatically migrate back to its orignal format. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/30/12 |
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Speedy, effortless setup. Seamless network integration. Not the fastest device out there (per the tech evaluations), but nevertheless lots rapidly sufficient to serve HQ video by means of wireless or act as a centralized file storage box. It's a quiet unit. Exceptional admin software program with some advanced functionality. Extended warranty. None so far, it's a quiet unit, tends to make some noise but an acceptable level of it. I'm worried about what will occur when I want to upgrade a drive, not sure how easy it will be to clone an old drive to a new 1. I'm making use of it as configured from the factory, RAID I, for information centralization and safety. Functions fantastically effectively in this function. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/27/12 |
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Hardware & iTunes server work. Printing by means of the USB port works, but the response is Extremely SLOW. It requires 15 - 20 seconds for any and all interactions with the printer. For instance, if you correct click on the printer icon and choose properties it takes 15 - 20 seconds for the properties menu to seem. Clicking on printing preferences requires an additional 15 - 20 seconds. Clicking OK, another ten - 15 seconds. ... So, to adjust from single sided to duplex printing it takes about a 45 - 60 seconds. Also, the printer settings are not "sticking". I have to set duplex printing every single time I print. These two issues make the network printing capability worthless to me.Hope this helps... |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/04/12 |
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It's inexpensive. That's really about it. Wow, exactly where do I start off? I can only obtain speeds about 900kb/s in both OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Ubuntu 9.10. I have not tried Windows. My network is fine and I have lots of other machines that I swap files on just fine. It has severe concerns in OS X that I can't figure out at all; it may well in Linux as nicely but I haven't given it as great testing there. I get permissions failures when I shouldn't, even when a share is set totally to public. NFS is fully broke. In Leopard it will stay mounted about 30 items then disconnect. Also I'm running the most current firmware (which, its auto update didn't uncover on its personal, even after manually asking it to check).I consolidated my iTunes library to the drive; 160gb took more than 2 days to transfer. From one personal computer to a different more than ethernet would be no far more than a couple hours ordinarily. Some of those files occurred to be motion pictures and tv shows and they cannot be streamed at ALL. I get 2MB/s download speeds frequently on my cable modem. It's sad that I could get a file more rapidly from halfway across the world than from a device sitting in my basement. A minor beef is that since the Black Armors run Linux we're completely locked out of that, where one particular could in all probability fix this thing's bugs on his/her own and add neat things like a Bittorrent client. I get more rapidly transfers from a USB 1.1 drive linked to a machine on my network . . . Genuinely I have by no means had a difficulty with Seagate but I'm not positive how this happened. The final firmware was released in 9ብ; the forums have tons of folks asking questions, but nobody from Seagate actually answering. I'm not the only one particular experiencing the difficulties above. All I can do is cross my fingers that a firmware update will fix these issues . . . Manufacturer Response:The firmware upgrades over the past year (Seagate is now carrying out firmware upgrades on a frequent and regular basis) must have resolved you troubles. It is crucial to note that network connections and traffic decide overall performance of the NAS. For example, a ten럼 router or a wireless router that often occasions out and loses it's connection will generally negatively effect transfer speeds. Network site visitors can also affect transfer rates - if a network is becoming heavily utilised by multiple users, it will make the NAS perform slower than when there are fewer men and women doing heavy data activities on the network. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/19/12 |
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Straightforward, fundamental NAS storage. Looks clean and has a good set of entry level capabilities. I'm curious as to why they only included two x SATA. That leaves you with 4Tb max storage capacity (not such as USB two. drives which are very, very slow). Furthermore, if you want to have any sort of information redundancy to avoid from failed drive data loss, you're restricted to 2Tb (again not such as USB two. drives because backing up on them requires a ridiculous quantity of time). This just appears a poor selection to me. And calling 2Tb "excessive" per Seagate's web site is laughible. Very merely, Seagate required to consist of two or 3 far more SATA ports and present help for up to RAID five. The situation is quickly big adequate for such a configuration. Depending upon your demands, this may fit you quite nicely, but for most folks searching for any sort of substantial media storage, this just isn't going to suite you. I have not owned this product which is why I have not commented on it's efficiency. I just wanted to comment on this NAS's set of attributes so that men and women can make an informed choice before buying a thing that quite possibly may not meet their demands. Manufacturer Response:It is critical to note, Seagate has a RAID5 providing in our NAS 440 product line. There want to be 4 drives in order to assistance a RAID5 remedy. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/14/12 |
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Hardware appears to work OK.Newegg! 1) the simple one particular first. The partitioning computer software software program stinks. There is no way to re-partition the drives. The only thing you can do when the drives are partitioned is delete partition. Of course this deletes all your data ... 2) When they says "designed to backup 20 PCs" that has nothing to do with the backup software program. The backup software will only support 5 NETWORK DEVICES and the license is NOT TRANSFERABLE Amongst DEVICES. So, a transportable with a wireless and a wired network adapter counts as two of your 5 licenses. And if you RETIRE OR MODIFY A Computer system YOU CAN'T REUSE THE LICENSE.The EULA says residence computers. Seagate pre-sales told me five computers. Seagate tech help told me five network devices. Be aware, more than time as you get new computers or use/add/change network devices you will run our of licenses and have to by a lot more from Seagate. Also be aware that if you want to restore backed-up files to yet another computer following a crash you might require to purchase much more licenses. Remember this is a SLOW device even on a Gigabit network. It only does about 1.five GB/_minute_. Don't bother trying to backup over a wireless connection, it only does a couple of hundred MB/min.Again, be aware of you truly want to use the device as advertised or as any typical user would you are going to have to obtain more backup computer software licenses or use other backup software program product.Given these two difficulties (can't re-partition disks, quite expensive / valueless back-up software program) there are lots of superior options out there. This is not a significant NAS backup package, it's a couple of TB of network accessible storage. That's fine, but it is not how it is marketed!!!Finally, I now have no faith in Seagate advertising or support. Sorry for the flame -- Hope this assists! Manufacturer Response:By default this solution ships with RAID 1 more than a single volume on the 2 disks. Customers can develop multiple volumes immediately after the initial set up, however, in the course of action they require to delete the existing default volume and re-create many volumes utilizing the internet UI. Comprehensive instructions can be referenced on page 30 of the BlackArmor 220 Userguide - in the section titled "Managing BlackArmor Volumes, Shares and Storage". The BlackArmor Userguide is a pdf document on the Installation CD/DVD for this item. For any difficulties where several Acronis licenses are utilised on the very same solution, please get in touch with Seagate Tech Assistance for resolution at 800.SEAGATE. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/23/12 |
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None Vista 32bit keeps asking for a NAS 2D driver. The question has been asked in the knowledge base and Seagate apparently blames Microsoft. Seagate will not answer e-mail queries about this product regardless of when it was bought. Apparently, Seagate will only answer phone questions on the product for 30 days. Immediately after that you have to spend for help. The Seagate internet website says this product has free of charge email support. This is NOT True, there is no cost-free e-mail help.I have never see a response from Seagate in the information base. It a customer sell assist website. Forget attempting to get via on the phone. I've been listening to muzak for 30 minutes. Appear at the understanding base prior to you purchase this product. It has a lot of troubles.So, Seagate won't answer emails, won't answer queries on the expertise base, and you can't get via to them on the telephone. Basically they offer no technical assistance on this product. Manufacturer Response:Seagate does supply free tech assistance for BlackArmor NAS past the initially 30 days. I apologize for any inconveniences you skilled with our Tech Assistance. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/07/12 |
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Great hunting, discrete, ready to go out of box, reasonably flexible management. Excellent $/Volume. Hardware is wonderful. Excellent system (hardware and software program) if you're not 1 to worry about customers, groups, permissions, and such. If you are 1 to worry about users, groups, and so on., it's nonetheless quite capable. Bugs and nuisances notwithstanding, the backup computer software is wonderful. Accessing from outside of my network via Seagate sounds neat. BlackArmor Discovery can't uncover the NAS from one of my machines, and there appears to be no way to force discovery via IP or Windows Networking name in such a way that the Backup or Discovery computer software will "remember" it. Truly annoying but not a deal breaker so far. Internet interface a little clunky/confusing.Windows backup software has problems with authentication/permissions.No zip archive selection. Have to use software program's archive format. Other critiques right here have been largely unfavorable, and I can't take a lot exception to the comments. The ratings in general seem strangely low. Improvements to some basic software characteristics such as discovery in non-typical networking atmosphere (i.e. several switches, bridges, and so on.) and mid-level functionality like authentication could make it a lot additional tolerable to intermediate users and power users... people who I feel grade fairly challenging against the difficulties that this NAS has and take joe blow user functionality, which this NAS does quite effectively as a given.Also, I wish it had torrent download capability.Waiting impatiently for firmware and software program updates. Please. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/28/12 |
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None Doesn't perform Installed and my Lenovo System 7 laptop could see and access the netork folders. Attempted to install the offered backup software program which rendered my laptop unbootable. A restore settings fixed my laptop. Due to the fact Program 7 windows backup program does not function with NAS, this is a significant limitation.Tried accessing the NAS by way of the LAN instead of the wireless and NAS stopped being accessible. Firmware update and software reinstall failed to fix.E mail tech help yields no aid and telephone tech help provides a recorded message that everybody is in a division meeting all day. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/11/12 |
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It's a incredibly effortless raid set up. East network set up. Unless you are performing a back up, you don't need the software program / cd that comes with it. I stream movies and music from this with no concerns, choppiness, or interruption. When I will need to get a file or two, I can do so from any world wide web connection. The administration software program on this was not so very good, that is of course until the most up-to-date software package upgrade a few months back. I won't comment on the earlier iTunes and Media Server version.... other then to say it had quite a few drawbacks, but these for the most part have been resolved. I think this A different CON is access over the world wide web by means of globalaccess.seagate.com is slow. Print server and backup server aren't negative functionality, either. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/21/12 |
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Quite uncomplicated to set up. 3 year warranty. Sloooooow As soon as I tried to stream the video it just stood there not doing anything. There was no way I could get it to stream.Subsequent factor I thought of was to modify from Raid 1 to Raid as I was below the impression it would enhance efficiency. So it reformatted and I copied the file once again. Same factor...the file loaded but would not play.So subsequent I tried it wired using the Gigabit Port connection on the D-Link. Similar results. These files just would not stream.Given that I had my WDTV Live currently set up wireless I could access one more drive inside the Computer: Western Digital 640 GB Caviar Black SATA 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache I was able to stream the precise identical file with no errors wireless. No hiccups or errors...Exactly what I was hoping to realize with the Seagate.Why is this happening ? If you know one thing I don't please let me know. The only factor I could consider of is the actual drive speed becoming too slow??? I got the BlackArmor NAS 220 about 7 hours ago and so far its been absolutely nothing but frustrating to say the least.I was searching for a NAS specifically to stream Complete HD content material over the network either wired or wireless. I don't need to have this for something else.Let me commence off by stating what I have: D-Link DIR-655D-Link DWA-140Western Digital WD Television Live My online speeds in case you had been asking yourself: Comcast Organization Class 20 mbs Download / 6 mbs UploadI have had my WDTV Reside set up wireless with no troubles. I can access Youtube with no matters. I understand these files are not as large as HD content material. But I know it functions ok wireless.I was in a position to set the up Seagate BlackArmor 4 TB server within minutes. I could uncover it on the network as nicely. Subsequent thing I copied a .mkv file about ten gigs in size. Took about 5 minutes to transfer. Turned on the WDTV and was in a position to come across the network share drive from the Seagate. Manufacturer Response:To stream music and video working with DLNA, please make positive that the the "media streaming service for the folder" and the "media service" itself are each enabled. This can be done through the internet UI. If you have any further questions, please call Seagate was 800.SEAGATE. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/05/12 |
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Defaults to RAID1 - case is desirable. The management software program is terrible. If you want to do JBOD, you should configure as 2 'Spans' with only 1 drive per 'span'. The interface is clunky and confusing and tries to configure every little thing by means of a wizard that you have to go and clean up soon after later. I would advocate an empty NAS and adding your own drives. I utilised to feel very of Seagate - not so considerably any longer. Manufacturer Response:BlackArmor NAS products do assistance JBOD configurations. In this case, the two drives can be configured as a single span JBOD volume. This is a standard function with all BlackArmor NAS items. The RAID level can ought to be selected prior to storing data on the drive to keep away from data loss. Get in touch with Seagate Support with questions and reference the user guide posted on the support page of the NAS device. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/24/11 |
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Basic to setup, simply accessible Network Attached Storage. We use three of these for nightly backups to other buildings. No troubles so far except... had trouble getting the FTP server to function. |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/10/11 |
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Looks high top quality. Easy to setup. Decent CIFS/SMB transfer speeds. This factor can't deal with NFS worth dirt. 30 minutes to transfer 1 gigabyte worth of information over NFS is just pathetic performance compared to much less than 2 minutes to copy through CIFS/SMB. This thing is going back to trade for the WD equivilant MyBook Globe Edition. The main reason for acquiring this drive was for the NFS support and it the efficiency is disgraceful. Why a organization would dare release a product with efficiency like that is shameful.Do oneself a favor and save a couple of bucks and go for a various NAS. This 1 isn't worth your cash. Manufacturer Response:Please go to the beneath link to download the firmware upgrade on 11.15.2010, which has addressed the NFS and CIFS concerns you are mentioning.http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=ba-nas-downloads&vgnextoid=c75246ee20114210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD |
Nicely designed units with good storage capacity sold at a reasonable value. Effortless to configure sharing selections and partition drives. None so far. I'm shocked at all the negative evaluations right here. I have three of these units on our network and they all do exactly what they have been designed to do. Just recall, this is a NAS unit. NAS means Network Attached Storage. Thats what these do, and they do it really well.