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Buffalo HD-H160LAN 160 GB LinkStation Network External Storage Center | List Price: $349.05
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Brand: Buffalo
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Add 160 GigaBytes of network-attached storage via wired or wireless connections
- Dual USB 2.0 ports make it easy to add additional hard drives for extra space or backup
- Simple setup and maintenance, versatile usage, and a compact design
- Minimal power consumption and scheduleable auto-power off
- Silent internal fan; internal power supply
Buffalo Tech 160 LinkStation [Posted on 2005-08-02]
Once it got the LinkStation installed, it has performed flawlessly. I have copied Gigabytes of data to the device with NO problems at all.
The installation when well, but the device kept disappearing from my PC. After some frustration, I called Buffalo. I was connected with a Tech in a few minutes. The tech understood my problem and sent a link to the current firmware. This resolved the problem. BTY, Firmware should be 1.47 or laster. Apparently, earlier version do have the disappearance problem. Also, not that there are two versions of the machine. The older version has a switch in the back that selects either crossover or straight thru to allow you to attach either directly to a PC or to a switch. The newer version autodetects the attachment type. I have the older version, but suggest that you RETURN older versions with the switch since they are less flexible for non-techies.
Great Product [Posted on 2005-09-12]
We have a small network of 4 macs and 2 windows pc's. It works great for us.
We use this network drive mostly to store archived project files and to store all our media files such as music and movies. iTunes allows us to centralize the location of our music. All the computers in the network can access the music and videos from the network drive.
We have been able to set up the network drive so that we can authorize people to access only specific folders.
The drive also has a great sleep feature and is very energy efficient. the drives only consumes a few watts per hour during active use.
This product is also very small, and is perfect when space is a problem. The drive has been very easy to set up and use web administration so both macs and windows can do administarion.
Good value [Posted on 2005-10-25]
After some not so great experience with Linksys NAS products, I switched to the Buffalo Linkstation and was pleasantly surprised. It's an excellent product for a reasonable price. Setup was straightforward (you should download the latest driver from their website), the configuration utility is easy to use. Speed/performance is adequate for everything but the most demanding tasks (I use it mostly as a backup disk for my home computer network). The drive is very quiet. The only complaint is that I was unable to get the print spooler to work with my HP and Lexmark printers. It wasn't important enough for me to call their support line.
Pretty good, but I wouldn't buy another one [Posted on 2005-12-18]
I've got a home network with a printer and a lot of music files to share, so when I discovered and bought this product, I thought it was the best thing to come out since Wi-Fi.
However, when I setup the product and wanted to get my printer hooked up, I was disappointed to find out that it's only a print server for "postscript" printers, which my Lexmark Z45 wasn't. I don't know how common or rare postscript printers are, but I felt a little ripped off by not being able to use it as a print server, which was half the reason I bought it.
Anyway, I used it for a few months without any problems except for the fact that the fan ran a lot even when it wasn't in use. But no big deal.
After about 4 months, though, it got zapped by a lightning strike through the ethernet port. I called tech support, and they said that they didn't cover that, which is expected. However, they said that they don't actually FIX these products. If anything is wrong, they just replace it. That wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that all of my music, pictures, and other irreplaceable files were on there.
So I was forced to tear it apart (not an easy thing, incidentally), and put the hard drive in another computer. Then I had to find some software that would read it's Linux partition (ext3 format) from Windows, and finally I copied the files to a Windows-formatted hard disk.
So I'm out $250 and still shopping for a NAS product that supports Windows file formats and more printer models.
Not a good product at all [Posted on 2006-07-20]
I read a lot of reviews before buying this product; Some good, some bad. I decided to take the risk and buy it. Well, this risk didn't pay off! The product looks nice and doesn't look complicated until you power it up. The unit runs a linux type operating system and uses a filing system not up to par with Windows XP and Mac OS X. Many of my files, both pc and mac format, cannot be copied because of odd characters in the title. The hard drive cannot be formated to NTFS or HFS+ either-it can only be the linux format, which is done through the html settings. Also, I have had some trouble with the unit not wanting to respond-every once in a while it will hang up. What's worse is when that happens, I have to unplug the power cord to reset the thing! I have had nothing but headaches from the linkstation and Buffalo Tech is no help. I seriously doubt they will release any updates to the firmware. I will probably end up pulling out the 160GB (which is more like 153GB) hard drive and place it in an external enclosure. Overall, I am very dissapointed with this product.
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