Buffalo Technology LinkStation Network Storage Center

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Inexpensive pick for home user
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Poor performance

Buffalo LinkStation Network Storage Center Review

by Becky Waring

- The Buffalo LinkStation does it all, does it well, and does it at a great price. This versatile 250GB network storage device has two USB 2.0 ports for an external hard drive and a USB printer. You can use the second drive for either backing up the internal drive or adding storage. The Buffalo was the only NAS we tested to include a USB print server, a handy feature that lets home and small offices share inexpensive printers. While the competing Linksys EtherFast Network Attached Storage EFG250 includes a parallel-port print server, a significant number of inexpensive printers are now equipped only with USB ports.

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User Reviews for Buffalo Technology LinkStation Network Storage Center

Reviewed by: VReggie

Duration of ownership: 1 Year

Strengths: Network Accessibility, ease of setup. Storage capability. Small footprint.

Weaknesses: Slow to respond to write requests over network link. NOS on device limits file size to 4GB, which limits or excludes the use of NTBackup or other file compression backups. The hard drives are run of the mill, just as likely to suffer the same hardware failure you're trying to protect yourself from.

Overall Evaluation: Although decently priced, and easy to use (for PCs) they're somewhat unreliable for totally automated backups. The units I've used seem to respond slowly to write requests, especially after long idle periods, which sometimes results in my backup software timing out. I've used NTBackup, Veritas Backup Exec and other compression based applications but have had the most luck using a simple XCOPY batch file.

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