Comments on: Seagate BlackArmor NAS 110 1TB NAS Box

By: Shoe

Shoe — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:47:15 +0000

I just purchased this NAS and am new to the disk world. In reading the user manual, I deleted the volume so I could partition two volumes.

How long should it take to partition a 450G volume on this drive? How long should it take to just partition one max volume? Seems to be taking forever….

Wish I’d have just left it alone…. :/

Thanks. By the way – I bought the drive because of your review. Really nice job on the review.

By: Flemming

Flemming — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:29:09 +0000

Dave
Thank you for the link.
That also leads me to the explanation to my next problem: The harddisk has begun “talking”.
Actually I changed the switch to a Dlink DGS 1008D and the read-speed is ok now.
So – the NAS has been returned, with a question about a better harddisk.

By: Dave H

Dave H — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:04:26 +0000

Flemming,

There is plenty of posts on Seagate’s Forum about the NAS and D-Link. http://forums.seagate.com/t5/BlackArmor-NAS-Network-Storage/bd-p/BlackArmorNAS

Basically most have replaced the D-Link with NetGear to resolve the slow transfer speed issues.

By: Flemming

Flemming — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:02:28 +0000

Hi again. My setup:
Switch: Dlink DGS 1005D, NAS 1: QNAP TS-119 Turbo Station, NAS 2: BlackArmor NAS 110.
Speed:
Upload to QNAP: 27 MB/sec
Download from QNAP: 45 MB/sec
Upload to BlackArmor: 15 MB/sec
Download from BlackArmor: 230 KB/sec. !!!

I have changed ports, cables and file size – download speed from the BlackArmor is still only max. 230 KB/sec. Am I doing anything wrong?

By: Flemming

Flemming — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:10:01 +0000

You might have mentioned the 2 GB limit for file-transfer via Global Access.

By: Sean Cameron

Sean Cameron — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:10:05 +0000

Stay far, far away from this NAS. I recently bought one for a client and the BlackArmor backup software will not work at all on any 64 bit Windows 7 machines (I tried 3 completely clean machines running Win 7). Bizarrely it displays the server under “automatically detect servers”, and then when you try to connect to it, it displays “server not found”. I can connect to the device manually and copy files to and from it, and I can connect to the admin console and configure it, but the software provided with it cannot. It also installs an immensely annoying boot agent, and requires manual intervention before the machine boots normally. By far the worst NAS I’ve ever used.

Have a look at the Seagate forum, and you’ll quickly realize that there are major problems with this unit, and that Seagate support is useless.

By: Sakis Kom

Sakis Kom — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:34:44 +0000

Great review! I have 4 questions.

The format of the HDD is NTFS, FAT32, EXT2, EXT3 ?

How many external HDDs we can connect to the USB for extra space? One or two?

When we connect other HDD to the USB, we see new drive letter to the PC? (D: E: F:..)
Or we see only BlackArmor with more space?

The external USB HDD, must formatted or we see all the data we have now, with no problem? (My USB HDD is NTFS).

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:01:46 +0000

good info above guys, but I’m struggling with the NFS. I can get CIFS to work fine but NFS, which is the only reason i bought it, says ‘access denied by server’ from every server i try to access it from, regardless of whether i use accounts or public. i’ve tried rebooting. the documentation is WORTHLESS.

any suggestions?

By: Ethan

Ethan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:58:11 +0000

I’m considering this as a media server, Staples has it on sale for 159.99.
I want to use it to stream my video collection encoded as XVID/DVIX to a laptop in another room. Can anyone confirm it can do that?
Thanks.

By: Kristofer Brozio

Kristofer Brozio — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:55:48 +0000

Bob: As far as Licenses I thought 10 of them came with it… How many do you need?

Alex: Transfer Rates are over ethernet cable not wireless, maybe that’s why I got faster speeds..

KGB: I don’t know dude.. You may have got a bad one, I like it, it’s just like the Black Armor NAS220 that I’m still using with no issues– It kind of all depends on what you need it for, so look at the specs and determine if this is something that you might need or use. Then you can just get a different one if it doesn’t fit your needs…

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:43:04 +0000

I bought one of these a week ago, haven’t opened yet and from all the neg vibes I’m finding on this, I think I will return it.

By: carlos

carlos — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:19:47 +0000

I cant make this thing work!! Im so angra now, talked to support but they cant help me. The nas110 does not show in my network I cant find it I cant do anything and dont know what to do…
Plz someone help me…
I just connected it to my router its a dlink DI524 and it should be discovered in the software discovery mut it does not…

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:08:26 +0000

Each computer you connect requires a new ( paid License) . If you replace a computer, ou can not deactivate and reuse a license, you need to buy a new one. Could get expensive if you change computers often

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:09:21 +0000

Could you please explain how did you get those transfer speed rates?
I just bought mine and it is super slow!!! (2-4 Mbps) and is wire attached to a N wireless router (Belkin).
Any suggestions to make it faster?
Thanks!

By: KGB

KGB — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:42:52 +0000

Well, the Seagate BlackArmor NAS 110 works really well as an NFS server over LAN.

BUT most of the features are either broken or simply don’t work as advertised – totally misleading information:
- Media streaming – doesn’t work, most formats unsupported
- Global Access – doesn’t work or broken
- FTP access – darn slow
- HTTP access – only server configuration (must be able to set up web server as well)
- Back up – doesn’t work or broken
- NFS server – the only feature that works and surprisingly really well
- Manual – absolute rubbish!
- No GPL sources available (must be violation of the GPL license)
- Seagate Tech Support – what is it?

So, if you want just a NAS with CIFS/FTP/NFS – go for it, if you want more from it – stay away, find something else, don’t waste your money and time on this junk