Buffalo spices up spacious NAS line
By Paul Miller 
posted Jun 22nd 2006 4:17AM
posted Jun 22nd 2006 4:17AM
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Hmmm... 2TB for a consumer??? How much porn is that??
#1 It's never enough !!!
WOW! This is really old news. Those have been available in the U.S. already. You can find the Terastation at your local Best Buy. The 2TB Terastation is $2000+. And no, you can't get one without a drive.
Give you a fair warning about Terastations..... The file system is XFS which only supports files smaller than 2 GB. Tried using one to store disk images and found this out the hard way....
I've had a 1TB terastation for the past few months (in RAID5 format so get 750GB) and it hasn't given me any issues, yet, cross fingers, touch wood!
Uses a Linux operating system, for what that's worth.
Does its job quietly. I find that it doesn't like to max out my 100 based network, gets up to about 50%, but fast enough for me although filling it up to start off with can take a day or two!
Also, any USB drives you attach are read-only, unless you format them in EXT3 Linux format (so can't read them back in windows unless you download and use an application, like LTools).
Tony,
What about FAT32? That should be R/W accessible by both Windows and Linux.
I did a HUGE hack on one of these things for work, If any of you guys are interested in checking it out..
The limitations to that buffalo is that its running an embedded linux 2.4 kernel and an XFS partition schema.
What this means to the geek: You cant have any files on there that are over 2gig. Neither the kernel or the partition can support files over 2gig, so the thing instantly became useless to my company.
Heres my little writeup on my adventures with the thing:
http://www.thaumatocracy.com/news/?p=315#more-315
I just want someone to make a cheap Gigabit NAS that I can buy with no drives. The Thecus ones are the cheapest I've found, but I still think they're a bit expensive for what they are.
About the file size limit: that question is answered in the FAQ page of the Terastation wiki:
http://www.terastation.org/wiki/FAQ#Is_there_a_Large_File_Size_Limit.3F
The Terastation has problems copying files larger than 2GB because of SAMBA (Windows network support).
OTOH, NFS v2 also has a file size limit of 2GB, so I assume that the previous poster installed NFS v2 on the TeraStation.
In my experience XFS works perfectly with files larger than 2GB (it's a 64bit FS), both in kernel 2.4 and in kernel 2.6; see http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
Does the TeraStation support non-English (or non-alphabetic character) file names? The LinkStation doesn't, which makes it unsuitable for my purposes.
Hi can one of these boxes be used as a server. If I want my friends to connect to this server VIA internet and download or upload files on one of these boxes. If not which one can do it, having NAS and Raid of course.
something like http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=509 maybe?
built in ftp, itunes server, etc. You're not gonna get above 1.5gb ... but hey, its built in FTP which you require.
Hi can one of these boxes be used as a server. If I want my friends to connect to this server VIA internet and download or upload files on one of these boxes. If not which one can do it, having NAS and Raid of course.