Customer Reviews:
What a total pile of junk.......2007-08-24
I bought one of these from another reseller. It was DOA, I think from a failed cooling fan. It appears that Buffalo's standard procedure is to require a telephone support call regardless of who the reseller is. I was given a certain amount of abuse by the tech support guy ("surely you know what model you bought?" - turns out he was wrong, not me). I was then informed that these models are end of line, and no longer being manufactured, and that it would most likely take several days to arrange a replacement. A certain amount of shouting at the reseller fixed that.
This is the second failed buffalo unit I've bought, and I won't touch another.
Risky purchase.......2007-08-18
This is a great product that provides a great way of safely storing pictures/ videos/ files agaist potential hard disk failure. Unfortunately it seems a 50 / 50 whether you get a good one or not. If it works then it works great, if not then woe be tied you trying to get any help or support from the UK help desk. They seem uninterested, send you round in circles, ask the same daft questions and don't answer your emails.
Buyers Beware!
Reliability.......2006-09-11
I've been using one for well over a year now (I bought one when they had just arrived in the UK), and have to say it's performed flawlessly. Sits there quietly, 24/7, eating and regurgitating data, without a single hiccup.
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Simple and effective........2006-09-09
I bought this to archive my ripped CD and DVD collection, to ensure I had a safe place for them all. So the 750GB RAID 5 setting seemed very appropriate to me.
Setup was very easy indeed - plug it into the router (they supply an Ethernet cable) and it will get assigned an IP address, you can give it a name and then access it (from Windows) by \\TERA and the folder names you create on there.
Administration is via a pretty fully-featured web console - many options in here. Pretty simple to get around.
The device itself is well-built - with a metal casing. It's not as silent as you might hope for... I mean, having it on next to your computer in a quiet study will mean the thing you hear most will be the Terastation - however, it's not like a tornado either. The lights on the front are very attractive and show how the device is writing to individual disks.
Now... onto write speeds, which I'm sure is what most people are interested in. Writing to the Terastation in an environment where I have a wireless G network goes at about 1meg per second. That's moving data from a PC with a local disk, connected wirelessly, to the router, to the Terastation. This means many hundreds of gigabytes can take a really, really long time. If you're doing a proper loading of the device from the start, I would suggest you get it wired up via Cat5.
Only niggles, and they are only niggles as I didn't buy it for these features (I just tried them to find out how it was) are:
1) I can't get a USB Panasonic Laser Printer to work with the in-built Print Server it advertises.
2) Whenever I attach a USB disk to the Terastation, I can only read from the disk - attempts to write tell me I don't have the permissions... might be something else in the setup I need to look at.
Excellent priced network storage for all.......2006-09-06
As an owner of a Media Center system the one thing you need is storage, and plenty of it. The Terastation is an ideal addition to your network, especially as you can put it anywhere on your network and not need to connect it to a PC - mine's sitting underneath my router for example with the PC in another room.
The only downside is when it arrives, it's set with a pre-defined IP address instead of being set to use DHCP to get a valid address for your network which to me would make more sense. Because of this, it didn't work straight out of the box for me, but once I'd put a valid address in it all worked exactly as it should.
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