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Reasonable RAID solution for home server
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Buffalo Technology LinkStation Quad 1.0 TB (4 X 250GB) Network Attached Storage LS-Q1.0TL/R5 (Black) (Electronics) Good product for the price (paid $404 from Amazon). The price attracted me to this, since the "real" RAID 5 solution w/o performance issues are around ~$600~$800 w/o the hard drives. Bought it to protect my distributed data ar...
[Buffalo LS-Q2.0TL/R5 LinkStation Quad Hard Drive Array review can be read at Amazon.com]
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01/29/2009
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Great Media Device - IMO - Even A little Better than HP Media Smart Server
I initially bought the NAS to use for additional storage and for the RAID capabilities. I currently also have an HP Media Smart EX470 Home Server that I use to backup my home PC's and as a Media Server to stream audio and video through XBOX. I wanted a backup of the server so that I would not have to spend countless hours re-ripping my entire DVD and CD collection in the event of a Server crash.
However, once I received the Buffalo Linkstation - I noticed that it is actually superio...
[Buffalo LS-Q2.0TL/R5 LinkStation Quad Hard Drive Array review can be read at Amazon.com]
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07/21/2009
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Slower than a big $$$ NAS, but excellent value for the money
This review is from: Buffalo Technology LinkStation Quad 1.0 TB (4 X 250GB) Network Attached Storage LS-Q1.0TL/R5 (Black) (Electronics) I'm using this as a 450GB RAID 10 (mirrored/striped)array.
If you are curious as to why RAID 10 rather than 5, take a look here:
http://miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt
Unit was up and running 10 min after it came out of the box. It took about 2min to break down the the factory array configuration,...
[Buffalo LS-Q2.0TL/R5 LinkStation Quad Hard Drive Array review can be read at Amazon.com]
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04/01/2009
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Great hardware, lousy software
I have used Buffalo products for work in the past and found them to be rock-solid reliable. I bought this for home use for backing up photos, music, videos, and other assorted digital detritus that has accumulated over the years. It is perfectly sized to fit comfortably on a bookshelf.
The problem with this product is that the software is unable to find the LinkStation on my network. Even after disabling my software firewall, it still won't install. Whoever wrote the software just...
[Buffalo LS-Q2.0TL/R5 LinkStation Quad Hard Drive Array review can be read at Amazon.com]
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07/19/2009
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BUY recommended
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
Pros: Very easy to install. A light goes on to let you know you have connected it to the network correctly, then run the CD. The software automatically finds your network and installs the software and sets up the unit as a network drive - all you have to do watch the screen and click "next" through the steps. My unit came with SEAGATE SATA II hard drives! Already formated with RAID 5 set up. I was able to s...
[Buffalo LS-Q2.0TL/R5 LinkStation Quad Hard Drive Array review by netguy can be read at Newegg.com]
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02/22/2009
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Great product and a great price
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Buffalo LinkStation Quad 4.0 TB (4 X 1.0TB) Network Attached Storage LS-Q4.0TL/R5(Black) (Electronics) Used 4TB LinkStation (2.7 TB w/ RAID 5) to replace older, less capacity, Terastation from Buffalo tech. Great product, recieved in perfect condition and was best price even compared to Brick & mortar retailers having it on sale.
[Buffalo LS-Q2.0TL/R5 LinkStation Quad Hard Drive Array review can be read at Amazon.com]
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09/19/2009
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Nice but glitchy...shuts down all the time
This review is from: Buffalo LinkStation Quad 4.0 TB (4 X 1.0TB) Network Attached Storage LS-Q4.0TL/R5(Black) (Electronics) I agree with the other reviews however mine keeps shutting down in the middle of a back up...the computer is still on but the drive is not.
My basic back up takes three days to complete...lots of photos.
That's my main complaint...
[Buffalo LS-Q2.0TL/R5 LinkStation Quad Hard Drive Array review can be read at Amazon.com]
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10/27/2009
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Disappointed with hard drive choice
This review is from: Buffalo LinkStation Quad 6.0 TB (4 X 1.5TB) Network Attached Storage LS-Q6.0TL/R5 (Black) (Electronics) I'm a little disappointed to see that my 6TB Quad came with 5400 rpm drives. They are also the HD154UI/JP1 versions which are slower than the HD154UI F2EG Desktop class versions. The LinkStation Quad reviews that I have read were based on 7200 rpm drives.
[Buffalo LS-Q2.0TL/R5 LinkStation Quad Hard Drive Array review can be read at Amazon.com]
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11/06/2009
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Terrible experience
I bought this product from Frys. The first unit failed after I changed the configuration to RAID5, I returned it after technical support gave up. I got another also from Frys, this one failed also after changing the configuration to RAID 5 , in a different way and technical support gave up again. In both cases I had not data on the drives, attempting to change to RAID5 was the first thing I did. I had reviewed all the steps I took with technical support and I had done nothing wrong.
[Buffalo LS-Q2.0TL/R5 LinkStation Quad Hard Drive Array review can be read at Amazon.com]
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11/15/2009
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