Buffalo 1TB/gigabit NAS/RAID Terastation $740

[EKKC]

I'm wondering if the internal 250GB are upgradeable, if so when the prices come down I would be able to replace to 4x500GB drives for 2GB!

anyone know?

here's the link to product
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10396259

I posted because my friend spent 1G on this from buy.com a few months back. $250 off is not a bad price at all.

 

[RaiderJ]

I know you can use 400GB drives, so I don't see any technical reason why 500GB drives wouldn't work. However, I believe these use PATA drives, which was a dealbreaker for me.

Infrant makes a SATA based box, but there were some complaints about low read/write speed (under 10MB/s).

I just decided to build my own server using a P3 system I had lying around. I've not really seen any NAS setups that I really like.

 

[Fallen Kell]

The performance is a little lack-luster for a device such as this. With the available raid types you should expect better performance.

Personally I have highly debated getting an Apple XServe RAID and being done with it. I know for a fact that these things work very well and very fast. Yeah the base modle costs ~$6k and is only 1TB, but it supports 14 hot swap drives, which means all you need to do is buy the extra 500GB drives as you need them. We have been using there at work for about 2 1/2 years now without any problems.

 

[MIDIman]

This is actually a pretty decent deal - even @ $.50/gb, you're paying about $200 for the enclosure/no hassle install.

Nonetheless - I'm seriously thinking of getting one of the setups from Addonics and having the ability to configure what I need, as well as save some money.

 

[ECartman]

is this the same one that has been showing up for $649 at Fry's lately ??

(don't know about Outpost.com)

 

[dczyz]

Yes, wish Buffallo would sell just the tower cheaply. Have a ton of extra IDE drives that I could use for that.

 

[crobusa]

I recently bought another buffalo product (54 Mbps* Wireless Compact Repeater Bridge), and it was a disaster. The user manual was 4 pages of garbage, and tech support was the worst.

Does your router have WDS? No, I can't tell you if the most common router on the planet, WRT54G has it. (You need to use 3rd party firmware.)
Google says even when the product works to spec, it will cut your bandwith in half, something they forgot to mention in their materials.

The Buy.com link says they lied about domain support for this product.
Never again will I buy Buffalo.

 

[GMaximus]

I wish they wouldn't advertise it as a Terastation since to get anywhere near 1 TB of space you would need to run RAID-0. Running a ~900+ GB 4-drive RAID-0 array is asking for trouble. Thats a whole mess of data to lose.