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Seagate has today launched its range of BlackArmor network attached storage (NAS) solutions with the introduction of the BlackArmor NAS 420 and BlackArmor NAS 440.

Featuring a 1.2GHz processor and 256MB of RAM, the units are aimed at business users and described by Seagate as "fully-contained, out-of-box solutions with user-serviceable, hot-swappable drives that are RAID-configurable in 0/1/5/10 & JBOD arrays."

Measuring 20.7cm x 16cm x 26.9cm, the BlackArmor NAS offers four hot-swappable SATA bays, an LCD display, four USB ports for storage expansion and dual Gigabit Ethernet allowing for failover support. As you'd expect, it can act as a DLNA or iTunes media server, and supports the CIFS, NFS, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Bonjour and Microsoft RALLY network protocols.

The difference between the BlackArmor NAS 420 and 440 is simply the number of pre-installed drives, with the 420 coming equipped with two of Seagate's 7,200rpm drives and the 440 filled with the maximum number of four. Pricing is as follows:

BlackArmor NAS 420 2TB (includes two 1TB 7,200rpm drives) - $799.99
BlackArmor NAS 440 4TB (includes four 1TB 7,200rpm drives) - $1,199.99
BlackArmor NAS 440 6TB (includes four 1.5TB 7,200rpm drives) - $1,699.99

What's interesting is that Seagate states an 8TB model will be launched in May - inadvertently indicating that we'll see its "proper" 2TB drive in a little over a month.

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