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Buffalo Tech LINKSTATION GIGABIT NTWK-STORAGE CENTER 300GB ( HD-HG300LAN ) | List Price: $299.99
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Brand: Buffalo
Binding: Personal Computers
Features: - Auto-MDIX10/100/1000 Base-T Gigabit Ethernet Port
- Two or More Gigabit LinkStations can be used to back up each other over your network
- Memeo easy backup software included
- Simplified File Sharing on your home or small office network
- Protect data by restricting access with group and user level security
No incremental backups! [Posted on 2006-09-15]
At first, I was very pleased with this purchase. The speed was pretty good for a network device (of course, it's much slower than connecting a USB2 drive directly to a PC). So I transferred all of my music, photos, and videos onto the Linkstation to act as a central media server for my home computers. Then I bought a Buffalo Drivestation and connected it to the USB port (to act as a backup for the network drive). I performed a full backup of 80GB worth of files. It took several hours but went fine.
The following week, I performed another backup. To my surprise, it started to back up every file again. After digging around, I found out it does not perform an incremental backup. The only way to perform incremental backups is to use third party software and run it form a PC or Mac. The problem with this is that all the files need to travel over the network to the PC and then back to the Linkstation. This would take DAYS to backup 80GB (I even have a gigabit network and Gigabit Linkstation). Yes, the first backup would be slow and later backups would be faster. But it would still take forever to backup a large video file (such as as my latest home video of my baby). And I'd need to leave the PC on to do so.
Well, I feel like Buffalo swindled me out of two drives. If you intend to use the Linkstation to backup files from your PCs, I'm sure it would work fine. But if you want to use it as a primary storage device, forget it since there's no easy way to back it up.
Macintosh users beware! [Posted on 2007-03-08]
If you are a Mac user and thinking of using the Buffalo Linkstation as a NETWORK STORAGE DEVICE for a MEDIA SERVER you can do much better! I ordered this with the hope of using it to store and serve iTunes and iPhoto. 1. The instructions for getting it set up we're either out of date or Buffalo hadn't hooked up a Mac to see how it currently works. Instructions for the Mac were pretty much 'you're on you own'. After some troubleshooting I got it working. 2. The download times were unbeliveably slow! It didn't support Appletalk or Extended Appletalk. I had to revert to using SMB protocol... 54 hours to download 8 gigs! I think not. I called their support team and they essentially shrugged their shoulders... Mac's were not their thing. I ended up sending it back and getting a LaCie ...same size storage for $20 less. Set up was a breeze. Appletalk was supported, also Unix, Linux & Windows. 8 gigs downloaded in 45 minutes! That's more like it! Hope this helps your decision.
Good hardware,,,, with no software or support [Posted on 2008-03-28]
Linkstation makes amazing hardware, but fails to give good software for the same... you will need to install a third party software to use most of the features. Good hardware... but software sucks...
bottom line: its a good body with no soul
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