PC Magazine - 2009 11.pdf - Libertad Zero

Seagate BlackArmor NAS 2202TB, $449.99 listL l l l mPROS Excellent blend of consumer andenterprise features, such as iTunes, FTP,SSL, and UPS management.CONS The help files need improvement.Somewhat difficult to access drives.CLICK HERE FOR MOREDLNA appliances and the inclusion of aniTunes server, the setup is a bit too complicatedfor a networking layman due to someissues with WHS.The H340 comes with a 1TB SATA harddrive, and has three additional drive bays,each with LED lights to indicate each drive’sstatus. The case also includes four USBports, an Ethernet port, and e-SATA port.As mentioned, setting up the drive withWHS was challenging because the serverOS requires using a WHS Connector serviceand Toolkit on network computers. But onthe plus side, WHS has network monitoringcapability and the automated backup featureis highly configurable. The H340 alsoincludes a McAfee Total Protection featurethat scans the NAS folders for malware. Forperformance, this NAS drive is about in themiddle of the pack, yielding 10.3 Mbps withour 504MB test file. So overall, the H340shows a lot of promise, but isn’t for thosewithout some networking experience.Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220Seagate released the 220 as a smaller prosumerversion of its business-class Black-Armor 440. But the company retainedmany of the enterprise features availableon the larger product, so you get the best ofSeagate in this tiny box.The NAS 220 is one of the smallest NASdevices on the market, about one-third thesize of the Acer H340. The case, albeit boring,has a Gigabit network port, plus twoUSB 2.0 ports. The box can fit two drivesfor either a 2GB or 4GB capacity. Seagatebundles a BlackArmor Discovery utility thatfinds the NAS on the network in seconds. Italso has a Web server that displays the NASmanagement pages. Despite its limitedhard drive configuration (uses RAID 1 bydefault), the NAS 220 supports the SMARTNOVEMBER 2009 PC MAGAZINE DIGITAL EDITION 37