Buffalo Terastation

[Whipped]

Any got, or got any experience with the Buffalo NAS boxes and fancy letting me know if they've got any issues with them?

http://www.misco.co.uk/SSinfo/~101595~/BUFFALO+TERASTATION+1TB.htm

 

[inactionman]

I've had a linkstation for over 6 months, had no problems apart from a couple of times I've had to reboot it (via the power cord) when the weather got a bit hot. It is sitting behind my TFT monitor, so I probably caused a ventilation problem with where I placed it.

They are pretty good bits of kit and are fairly easy to administer.

 

[xane]

The TeraStation is good if (a) you want close to 1Tb, or (b) you want the additional security of RAID if it is not being used as a simple backup device for the PCs on the network, i.e. it is your main storage.

If, like me, you merely want a NAS as a secure place to backup existing files on networked PCs, or somewhere to hold big but unnecessary files, then it is a tad expensive for what you want. I went for a 300Gb Maxtor One-Touch Shared Storage drive at about £200.

Most smaller NAS devices, like the LinkStation, the Maxtor Shared Storage, Freedom and Linksys offerings, have print servers built-in and can take a couple of extra USB drives for additional space. Above that, the TeraStation does not offer a lot extra.

Another option is the LinkSys NSLU2, which is the file server on its own, retailing at around £30, you can attach 4 USB drives into it, but I don't think it has print server capability and the USB drives will need to be formatted specifically for the device.