Raid Recovery Tips

Identifying hard drive failures and RAID regeneration times for the NAS 4100.

Overview: The NAS 4100 comes with 4 separate hard drives. In the event of a hard drive failure you will be notified via an Email alert and/or Web UI. RAID regeneration can take up to 30 minutes depending on which drive has failed.
To check status of your NAS 4100 drives use Logical Disk Manager. To access the Disk Management utility:

2. Open “MaxNeighborhood” and double-click on the NAS 4100 that you want to create the folder on.
3. Login to NAS 4100 with the appropriate Administrator (or Administrator equivalent) username and password.
4. Click on "Administer…

What is Seagate BlackArmor and how does it differ from Maxtor BlackArmor?

The name BlackArmor was first introduced in 2008 as a portable Full Disc Encryption drive, however, at that time it was termed the Maxtor BlackArmor.  Now we are extending the use of that product name under the Seagate brand. Seagate BlackArmor is now the family name for a suite of storage solutions packaged for small business.  The Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 and Seagate BlackArmor NAS 420 network storage servers are just the first two solutions in what will be a complete lineup of BlackArmor products, to include 4 Bay,…

The NAS 4000 Series is a file server. Maxtor highly recommends you make backups of the NAS, as you would with any server.