Reviewer’s Guide: Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440
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The Cost of a Lost Data Records
Disk drives rarely fail, but it is a fact of that it does happen. This is the purpose for the
BlackArmor NAS, to protect valuable business critical data and to optimize uptime. This
objective is achieved by BlackArmor NAS in that data is spread across the four drives
that run as a fault-tolerant RAID 5 array.
We’ve all heard stories about people who never back up their files, and who lose the
only copy of a book they’ve been writing for years. But aside from the emotional cost of
lost data, what is the actual monetary value? That question was answered by the
Ponemon Institute in a landmark 2007 study. Among the findings:
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A lost customer record cost $182, an increase of 30 percent over 2005 results.
The average total cost per reporting company was $4.8 million per breach and
ranged from $226,000 to $22 million.
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Direct incremental costs averaged $54 per lost record, an eight percent increase
over 2005 results for unbudgeted, out-of-pocket spending. These costs Include
free or discounted services offered; notification letters, phone calls, and emails;
legal, audit and accounting fees; call center expenses; public and investor
relations; and other costs.
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Lost productivity costs averaged $30 per lost record, fully double the $15 cost
just one year earlier, for lost employee or contractor time and productivity
diverted from other tasks.
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Customer opportunity costs averaged $98 per lost record, an increase of 31
percent over 2005 results. This cost covers turnover of existing customers and
increased difficulty in acquiring new customers. Customer turnover averaged two
percent and ranged as high as seven percent.
The Seagate® BlackArmor™ NAS 440 and NAS 420 are designed to help small
businesses prevent the negative impacts of data loss or corruption.
Part 1: Product Overview
Introduction
The Seagate® BlackArmor™ NAS 440 and NAS 420 are expandable network-attached
storage solutions that provide small business and small-office/home-office (SOHO)
organizations with a centralized, secure way to manage business-critical information and
data with easy-to-use features. It is perfect for small organizations that have little or no
IT support and for SOHO-based individuals who maintain their own hardware. The
Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 and 420 were launched on March 24, 2009.
