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| | Features | Designed to provide centralized storage and data backup for up to 10 PCs.Protect network connected PCs with incremental and full-system, automatic backup.Secure files with powerful hardware-based encryption.Functions as an FTP server, enabling remote file access.Stream media to DLNA compliant devices and computers running iTunes software.
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| | Description | The BlackArmor NAS 110 server is a network attached storage solution designed to provide centralized storage, data backup and media streaming for up to 10 PCs. Help protect important data with automatic full-system backup, SafetyDrill+ bare metal recovery software and powerful hardware-based encryption.In addition to the included backup software, the web-based management interface and BlackArmor Discovery tool software are also straightforward to use. The BlackArmor Discovery tool software allows you to get up and running quickly by displaying all of the BlackArmor NAS products connected to your network. From the discovery tool, with a single click, you can view or map shared volumes to your computer, access the web-based user interface or back up the PC you are working from. The BlackArmor NAS 110 storage server can also be managed remotely with DDNS, which can be configured from the web-based management interface. The BlackArmor NAS 110 storage server can function as an FTP server, allowing remote access to files. Using the webbased management interface, you can designate user access manually or integrate with Microsoft Active Directory. Moreover, the BlackArmor NAS 110 storage server can stream media files to DLNA compliant devices or computers running iTunes software, allowing you to centralize media and display content simultaneously on multiple devices. | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 6.9 inches | | Product Width: | 5.8 inches | | Product Height: | 2.4 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.7 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.2 inches | | Package Width: | 8.8 inches | | Package Height: | 3.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 3.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 68 reviews |
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78 of 82 found the following review helpful:
 DO CONSIDERABLE RESEARCH FIRST Dec 28, 2009
By Nathan T. Finch
"NTFinch"
I am happy with this drive for many reasons, and disappointed for two. This is a very well-built drive that seems like it will perform quite well for my purposes, which are media streaming. It has a browser-based management utility that is streamlined and easy to use. However, the documentation is very vague, as are the online forums that don't function well. My drive was set up in under 30 minutes with no problems. My dad bought two of these as well, and is having issues setting up the Global Access feature for some reason. I didn't have any issue with that. The two issues that are concerning have to deal with documentation and Media Server functionality. Seagate does not list what file formats/codecs are supported for DLNA streaming. Unfortunately, it appears it is limited to AVI and Windows Media. It will not stream MP4 files of any sort. This is a huge loss for me, since I bought the drive to avoid having my computer on all the time. The details of this issue are not documented anywhere. However, it appears that very few drives out there function properly in this respect. For now, I am streaming through Connect360 while waiting for a firmware update that may offer hope. I recommend this drive as a solid network drive, but must warn you that it does not perform as a DLNA server. I will update this as I get more information.
30 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 Easy network file sharing and print server May 06, 2010
By Joey Day
I've had my Seagate BlackArmor NAS 110 2TB Network Attached Storage devices for less than 24 hours at this point, so I can't speak to its reliability or stability over the long term yet, but I will say this thing was an absolute breeze to set up. Let me say up front that I am an IT professional, so if you are relatively inexperienced with networking and hardware you should perhaps take my review with a grain of salt. However, this was so easy to configure I really do think a novice could've done it nearly as quickly and easily as I did.
I hate when a new piece of hardware comes with a CD. Mice and keyboards do not typically need any software, nor do switches and routers, yet they always come with a Getting Started card that tells you the first step is to insert the CD. Typically, the only real point to any of this software is for the company to get a little bit of their brand welded into your Operating System somewhere. When I saw just such a Getting Started card and CD included with the BlackArmor NAS, I got a little worried.
First thing I did was plug the NAS into my network. I used my router admin screen to figure out the IP assigned to the device, crossed my fingers, and punched the IP address into my browser address bar. I was pleasantly surprised to find a web-based admin area very similar to what you'd find on any router or modem. Everything on the device is configurable from this admin interface, rendering the "required" software absolutely unnecessary. Within ten minutes of fiddling within the admin area and without reading a single piece of documentation, I had a couple of working network shares mapped (one private share each for me and my wife to backup our computers, and a public share so we can swap files when we need to) and a networked printer (previous to this we were each plugging the USB cable into our computers whenever we needed to print, which makes this solution so much more convenient). The network shares were created very easily using the wizard-like interface, so there was really no IT know-how required, and the printer was immediately recognized by the NAS like magic almost as soon as it was plugged in. Both the network shares and the printer only required minimal configuration on our computers to get it all connected.
I personally prefer to use the rsync command-line tool to back up my own Mac (though I'm thinking of trying out Time Machine), but I know my wife will want a backup solution she doesn't have to manage herself or ever even think about, so I'm considering installing the NAS software on her PC, but I haven't checked it out yet at all. I also can't yet speak to any of the more advanced features of the NAS like media streaming or global access (being able to access your files from anywhere over the web), though I do plan to play around with these features down the road and may update my review here. I'll also update my review with respect to stability and reliability as time goes on. For now, though, it's already meeting my needs perfectly and I'm absolutely loving this little guy.
EDIT: I posted this review originally on May 6, 2010. It is now March 20, 2011, so I've had my Seagate NAS for nearly a year. Very shortly after unboxing, I noticed it makes a clicking sound when reading / writing to the drive, which worried me (usually a clicking noise coming from a hard drive means it has failed or is about to fail), but after researching this I learned that all of this particular model seem to make this same noise. I gotta say, this still worries me, but the drive has lasted nearly a year and seems to be doing fine, so go figure.
I still haven't played with the media streaming or global access features, as I haven't really needed them. This drive was purchased primarily as a backup drive. I'm still backing up my own files manually using rsync, but, as I had written earlier, my wife wasn't crazy about manually backing up her stuff, so I did go ahead and install the BlackArmor software so she could back up her files set-it-and-forget-it style. The software was very easy to set up and I rest easy knowing my wife's computer is backed up without any intervention by her or me.
In short, after owning this device for ten months I can still say it was well worth the purchase price. This is a great little networked backup device.
22 of 22 found the following review helpful:
Be prepared ... Nov 12, 2009
By Not Your Concern
I have mixed feelings.
Short story: Nice hardware, great potential (FPT, wiki, etc). Software unforgiving and difficult to decipher.
Software is lacking and unclear and the instructions alternate between being very simple and helpful to abstract and cryptic or disjointed. I feel there are things I really just had to figure out for myself and while I'm not a computer newbie, I'm certainly no IT professional. Definitely had some trial and error --which is time consuming when backing up 1/4 of a terabyte...
-In some cases there are five different ways to do the same thing (like I can't count the number of menu's where "Validate backup" is an option) --whereas in other cases I had to hunt and hunt to finally locate the obscure reference in the HTML help files that pointed me towards some buried part of the stripped down hardware GUI.
-In some cases you're bombarded with backup options. In other cases, you do a backup (such as USB->NAS) and it doesn't ask you one thing, it just starts backing up. There's not even a "stop" button in that latter example ...!
And so on ...lot's of strange things like this. I would prefer a really stripped down interface where I had to learn to be an IT professional, or I would prefer something where my hand is held the entire time. But Seagate BlackArmor tries to straddle the line ...
(I feel most comfortable just mapping drives with a letter name, but that just reduces it to being a portable hard drive. And good luck figuring out the permissions --because it doesn't tell you how, just tells you "can't do that". ...)
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 NOT for the inexperienced user Apr 24, 2010
By zben
"zben"
I bought this as a way to backup two computers on my home network. I'm a software engineer by trade, experienced Windows user, understand networking very well, so I figured this would be an easy thing for me to set up. And spending 2 hours on the phone with a very patient technical support representative, didn't help at all.
The backup software was very poorly written. You can probably overlook the silly little things like when you edit a backup task, the scheduler will be reset to some random time seems to be 12 pm plus however many minutes past the hour the task is currently set at. You can also probably overlook that when you edit a backup task, the list of excluded file extensions keeps getting appended so that each extension appears multiple times.
However, what can't be overlooked is that when you create a backup job and specify the archive, a gramatically-incorrect message will appear that the login credentials for the remote device are incorrect, and it instructs the user to press a button on the toolbar to set them. First there is no toolbar on this dialog, so I'm assuming they meant the side panel. But no such option exists. Support told me to check the box so this will not display again, and ignore the error (BIG mistake! There IS a problem here.) If I continued to do the backup as an on-demand, non-scheduled task, this worked. However in order to do a scheduled backup, you need to specify a user ID and password for the machine you want to back up. When the schedule task runs, it fails -- the message is that the user and password are invalid. This is failing on BOTH computers, regardless of operating system.
I was finally able to get it to work by creating an account with the same password on the network device as I have on the computer, and leaving off the computer name when specifying the login ID (for example, if your computer name is MY_COMPUTER and your user id is MIKE, by default the software will fill in for your MY_COMPUTER\MIKE. You would want to enter just MIKE). But the key is, you need to have the same user and password on the device as you do on the workstation. Grrrr....
18 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Doesn't quite live up to the promise Nov 30, 2009
By Joe Cool
I have 3 machines on my home network, each with four users. Backups of each machine should be private, while shared data (pictures, music, etc) should be public. The 110 claims to be able to do just this. However, I could never get it to work. Users had to enter their password even to access the public share. Some user passwords were not accepted, despite numerous attempts and careful verification that the user was typing the password correctly. When I finally gave up and deleted all the private shares and just put all the data in the public share, some users still had to enter their passwords to get access. The only way to resolve this was to delete their windows accounts and create a new ones. Needless to say, when you have a highly customized account, this is rather painful!
I do not use the Seagate backup software so I can't comment on that except to say that it doesn't give the user much control, and stores the files in a format that isn't easily accessible if you just want to find one or a couple of files. I am using Allway Sync which provides more control and makes it easy to recover individual files.
In my experience so far the device is impressively quite; the only time I hear it is when it clicks as it sleeps or wakes up. No big deal.
The one thing I find unfathomable is why they made the front USB port only available as a one-way backup of thumb drives. This is just stupid. I want to plug in a portable drive to back up the NAS but I can't use the front port and the rear port is very inconvenient to reach. Why not make the front port universal, as in Universal Serial Bus, instead of limiting it? Just weird.
Finally, I'd like to suggest to Seagate that they offer some kind of on-line backup service. None of the existing services work with NAS drives, but Netgear offers a proprietary service for their NAS drives. Online backup would be the final step in absolute data security and I'm surprised Seagate hasn't thought of this easy revenue stream.
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