Seagate ST340005LSA10G-RK 4TB (2 x 2TB) BlackArmor NAS 220

Pros: Quick and easy set up; Fair amount of features; Small and attractive; Fast transfer speeds

Cons: I wouldn't say it's loud, but you can hear it

Overall Review: I am using gigabit ethernet, and I would suggest you do so as well to take full advantage of its transfer speeds.

Pros: Low cost and easy to maintain, it simply uses 7200rpm Barracuda internal drives. No need for a special firmware like other NAS out there. (ie: WD sentinel, Iomega) Acronis backup software is bundle with it for easy system imaging. MAC users can use time machine. VMware, iSCSI, Active directory support. Hardware encryption

Cons: Not the fastest NAS but not atrociously slow like some are complaining about here. Obviously backing up over wireless will be slower no matter what NAS you use. Some patience required to setup, make sure you have the latest software update.

Overall Review: Once again a great value for the money with lots of features.

Pros: quick setup, quiet unit, looks good

Cons: tendency to not work...

Overall Review: I like a lot about this unit in terms of specifications, particularly the security I felt in terms of copying the files onto both hard drives (RAID). This way if one drive fails, you should have access to your data from the other. Unfortunately it didn't really work out that way as the unit constantly disappeared from the network and was completely inaccessible. Multiple resets and various other approaches could not rectify the problem. Seagate's troubleshooting webpage was not helpful. The one saving grace is that Newegg.ca has been really easy to deal with.

Pros: The device was very quite, it functioned as a NAS very well, the Management interface was very user friendly that a novice could use it and under stand it

Cons: It was very slow on a 100Mbs connection it ran at 2-3 MBs and on a 1000Mbs connection it hit a high of 25MBs but avg. 10MBs, The DLNA/Media server function work half way, I say this because it would turn on my PS3 and other media devices could see it but half the files didnt show after adding a new files had to turn the device off and on and some times the service its self. Most of the files i was trying to steam would not as the DLNA service on this device didnt support the file format

Overall Review: It worked as a slow NAS device I would recommend getting another device then this one as it is slow And if you are look to get a NAS for a Media storage i would look else were Seagate really needs to keep this the firmware updated and have a list posted of the files formats it suppots

Pros: None.

Cons: DO NOT BUY THIS NAS. Let save you countless wasted hours. After buying this and a *terrible* GoFlex, I'm done with Seagate. GARBAGE: 1. The installer disc corrupted the MBR on my machine not once but twice. It installs a dual-boot option, but if your machine has hidden partitions, it will corrupt them or delete them. 2. You can't set an admin password over 12 characters. The system will allow you to, but it won't give you an error for trying. 3. Discovery software simply does not work. 4. Cannot do simple incremental backups with Seagate software. 5. NAS displayed "hidden" folder names to an external device. Unacceptable. 6. NAS suddently disappears from view on other machines.BA 220 disappears randomly and will only reappear after re-boot. 7. Documentation is useless for critical functions. 8. Encryption process is undocumented. 9. Support does not exist. I contacted support and tried to interact with support three times. NO reply, no nothing. 10. Buggy/unclear function sta

Pros: The unit Works

Cons: Slightly slow but expected.

Overall Review: This product is not designed for speed on transfering files. Does it get the job done, sure does. Did transfering over 1.5TB worth of data take a while. Sure did.

Pros: None.

Cons: Failed, replaced. Flaky service. Failed again, taking valuable data with it. Data recovery efforts, futile. Tossed.

Overall Review: Together with other experience (3 of 4 Seagate drives failing), I'll never buy Seagate again.

Pros: It is easy to set up and administrate and has a decent amount of storage.

Cons: File transfer speeds on my gigabit ethernet network are terrible to this device. Every other device on the network does great but this device behaves as though is is only on a 100 Mbit network connection. I've tried updating the bios and several quality ethernet cables with no increase in speed. Transferring large files to this device is a slow process at best.