USB Hard Drives Network Attach Storage (NAS)

By Andreas Lee

USB hard drives are generally known as external hard drives. Because of market demand, this external media manufactured by more and more companies which are well-known with their famous product technology in the world, such as Toshiba, Sony, and Hitachi, compete with large manufacturing hard drives companies with latest USB hard drives innovations such as Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and LaCie.

It has to be known that recently USB hard drives market is dominated by Seagate and Maxtor, especially when this two big hard drive companies collaborated to create USB hard drives Network Attach Storage (NAS) namely Seagate Maxtor Shared Storage II which contains 2 unit 500 GB hard drives inside it.

Please note that the smallest USB hard drives NAS server capacity is 320 GB which is counted as a pretty large capacity for common external hard drives. There are multiple hard drives which organized by RAID technology within it. RAID technology is the technology that allows multiple hard drives to store data in the same vessel.

Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440

Seagate create new innovation by launching Seagate BlackArmor NAS 420 which has 2 slots for internal hard drives and Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 which has 4 slots.

usb external hard drive

Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 allows you to attach 4 pieces 2 TB internal hard drives capacity, which means that this USB hard drives can store up to 8 TB, can be connected by more than 50 computers for sharing and accessing digital data, easy front panel access, hot swap internal drives-no need screwdriver, 4 USB 2.0 ports, 2 Ethernet ports for local network connection, includes 4 energy-efficient, and BlackArmor backup software allows you to backup and restore data easily.

Each evolution in your business can be supported by its flexible capacity which reaches 8 TB, makes you forget not-enough-capacity problem. This USB hard drives is the right choice for capacity problems and sharing data security which supported by password protected web access feature.

Specs

• Capacity : attachable 4 internal drives (max capacity 8 TB)
• Rotation speed : 7200 rpm
• Buffer cache size : 32 MB
• OS requirements : Windows XP and Vista operating systems, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.

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