Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #100039 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Buffalo
• Model: HD-H1.0TGL/R5-1
• Released on: 2005-06-24
• Dimensions: 17.20 pounds

Computer Shopper Issue 213
An excellent way to boost storage on a network

Manufacturer's Description
Buffalo TeraStation Terabyte Network Attached Storage offers powerful storage, server and multimedia solutions for both the SMB and consumer markets. Combining advanced fault tolerant data solutions, robust file security, and Gigabit Ethernet networking, TeraStation allows users to deploy a simple, cost-effective data or media server to their office or home network in literally minutes without cutting corners on features and expandability. With advanced RAID solutions including RAID 0, 1 and RAID 5 you can configure the TeraStation to offer you a massive 1Terabyte of storage in RAID 0, or 750GB of space in a highly resilent RAID 5 solution.

By offering a total of four USB 2.0 ports, the device can accommodate additional external USB hard drives for expanded networked storage or as backup targets, a USB printer that can be managed and shared on the network.

Compatibility with Buffalo's LinkTheater Wireless Media Player allows wired or wireless streaming of your multimedia files to your television or stereo in almost any audio or video format. With its sleek, aesthetic design and ultra-silent operation, the TeraStation will get envious looks whether it is located in a busy office environment or on the entertainment system in your living room without adding any distracting fan noise.

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Customer Reviews

Simple and effective.
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
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.

Reliability
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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