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Seagate BlackArmor 2 TB NAS 220 Network Attached Storage Server
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- 2 TB blackarmor NAS 220-ethernet 7200 rpm. designe- Micro-hard-drives
- 500GB USB I GO Ext HD-silver
- ST905003FGA2E1-RK
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By goaliefight
I had high hopes for this device. Sadly I was disappointed. It was incredibly slow and noisy.
Home devices are supposed to be quiet. NAS drives are supposed to be faster than USB. The BlackArmor fails in both these areas.
It has a very stylish look, but fails everywhere else.
By Z. Xia (Silicon Vally)
The setup is easy for standard PC. But if the PC has some extra security mechanisms, such as firewalls, installed and running while you are trying to setting up, you may be in trouble. Out of the 4 PCs I set up, one had issues until I fixed the TCP/IP stack and turned off the firewall.
Saving files into the storage is quite fast. However, reading files from the storage is very slow. It is so obvious because when I drag-and-drop a 4MB file from a PC to a NAS220 shared drive the operation is finished instantly. But when I drag-and-drop the same file from NAS220 back to the PC the operation takes 10-15 seconds. I tried files of various sizes and the results are similar. All machines are connected to the NAS220 with 1Gb Ethernet switch. So the network is not the bottleneck.
I did upgrade the firmware to the latest. I think the slow read from NAS220 is a software issue. Seagate should put some effort in fixing the problem with another firmware upgrade.
By pbxtek (New Hampshire USA)
I purchased this and within a week it would not come on line anymore. Dealt with horrible tech support and was told there was "no way" for me to get my data off the drives unless I had an enclosure and a "linux reader". I am a voice/data networking technician and could not believe the lack of concern for my data and for their ability to keep me as a customer.
The Dlink dns-323 is a much better nas device and since you purchase your own drives all of your eggs are not in one basket in case of component failure, unlike the 220.
I was so upset by the lack of support that I didn't even purchase seagate drives for the new nas device. I am also telling all of my customers about the poor support and my issues with Seagate.
Not sure why my other review doesn't show up but I'd suspect Amazon censored it or filtered it.
By John Lundell (Rosemount, MN)
This device is absolutely worthless for anything but a connected USB hard drive. Do yourself a favor and check the blackarmor Seagate forums before buying. You will not be able to join this to an active directory domain, ftp doesn't work properly (Seagate even confirms this), and it is loud and slow. Like many others you will see in their support forums, I spent countless hours messing with these devices until I finally gave up. Save your money and your time.
By David Schwartz (Los Angeles, CA USA)
NAS220 did not work well in my wireless home network. It also did not work well on the Ethernet hard-wired home network. It did not work well when connected directly to my Ethernet port (no router.) The unit was s l o w! The Black Armor backup software would eventually terminate with an error message something like unable to write to file. My Vista Ultimate x64 drive has 55 g occupied. The black armor software estimated it would take 18 hours to back it up. I left the backup to run overnight but it crashed after 6 hours or so. The Western Digital support site has no drivers or utilities for Vista. However I had the same slow, ultimately failing backup under XP-Pro x32. Don't buy this unless you are a wizard and you have lots of time to figure out how to make it work.
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