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STORAGE HARDWARE FIRM Seagate has added a piece to its Blackarmor NAS server range. The 400 server is pitched at small businesses and households that want data storage protection, performance and flexibility.

The Blackarmor server has a four-bay storage enclosure, costs 0 and will let home users that went to a PC hardware store for a spindle of blank CDs use whatever disk drive they want with it, so long, that is, as it is certified by Seagate.

Seagate, predictably, likes the idea of people stuffing its own drives into the box, and explained that its Barracuda or XT drives would fit just fine. Scalable as it is, Seagate said that small businesses and home users could add extra drives as and when they need them.

As well as these drive spaces, the Blackarmor NAS server also provides backup and protection tools that extend to full-system remote backups, and data protection features in the form of ‘user-configurable’ RAID and JBOD capabilities.

In the event of failure, it offers full system recovery, which should only come into its own should the problem alert system not do its job.

Blackarmor is certified for use with Windows 7, but you really shouldn’t hold that against it. µ