Buffalo's TeraStation Pro hits 3TB: that's 3,000GB on your home network

Funny thing how NAS disk capacity and DRM hacks possess a near linear relationship, eh? Meet Buffalo's new 3TB (yeah, 3,000GB) TeraStation PRO storage solution for your home network. It's still the same ol' box -- RAID 1/5/10 (across 4x disks), 38MB/s transfer rate (Raid 5), gigabit Ethernet, Active Directory integration, integrated UPS and 2x USB 2.0 jacks to swing even more disk from. And with 1TB drives ready to pop, a 4TB model is just around the corner. The TS-H3.0TGL/R5 is already up for pre-order in Japan for ¥277,305 or about $2,312 of the green after you hunt the beast down. NASty indeed.

[Via Impress]

[c @ Aug 29th 2008 6:12PM]

Hello everyone,

I would Highly reccomend not getting this product unless you are using it for home uses only.. They do not work with DNS correctly or AD correctly.. I have called into buffalo support to get this fixed and got the answer of "sorry, its a known issue we don't know how to fix".

honestly, these are garbage and are only worth the drives that are in them. If your looking for a professional, try blade servers.

[bilbus @ Mar 28th 2009 10:23PM]

Don't buy, it is very slow. It was much slower then my single 750GB HD.

[mikey p @ Feb 15th 2007 9:33AM]

Only 3TB?

[Wolfticket @ Feb 15th 2007 9:33AM]

Is it just me, or are all ready made multi-disk nas solutions a total ripoff?

[Ben @ Feb 15th 2007 10:29AM]

I would say 2300 with 4 1TB drives a decent deal. Those drives have got to retail for at least $500 a piece ....

[Rick @ Feb 15th 2007 9:47AM]

What, no built-in Torrent support? Booffalo, wet dreams are shattered by such blatant disregard for "the hand that feeds".

i want one...

[justdoit @ Feb 15th 2007 10:37AM]

soory VISTA guys, no MS VISTA for any Buffalo NAS due to an old samba server it is based on, with no encrypted password support!

[Tim @ Feb 15th 2007 9:15PM]

You are wrong sir. The samba version its running just doesn't have NTLMv2 support which is required by default in Vista, a simple regedit and you are good to go. and the speed on this tera pro II is amazing!!

[Olivier @ Feb 15th 2007 10:04AM]

Is that NAS on fire or is it just me?

[Taz @ Feb 15th 2007 1:20PM]

I have the older Terastation 1TB NAS, and I have to say - I wouldn't buy another Buffalo product again. Terrible support for firmwares, full of bugs, and absolutely atrocious performance.
Not to mention the fact that it takes about 20 minutes to pull it apart to change a drive - hardly what you'd call 'hot swap'.

[xen0cide @ Feb 15th 2007 3:00PM]

That's because your model ISN'T hot swappable. The older model did not have that feature.

I've been using one for almost a year and it's been fantastic. It's an appliance and it just works.

[steve @ Feb 15th 2007 3:30PM]

@Ben - actually, it's 2300 for 3TB. With the 750's averaging ~ $325 apiece. 4x750gb is ~1300. So, you're paying $1000 for a chassis/power/motherboard

Not a good deal.

Even for the 4x1TB's. the 1TB's will be retailing at $400 each, so 4x1TB is $1600, you'd still be paying $700 premium.

A good 5 disk chassis w/ hardware RAID would run ~650. So assembling one yourself is cheaper

[Bill @ Feb 15th 2007 3:54PM]

I've been doing reasearch on RAID NAS products, and it seems that Infrant's ReadyNAS products are the only way to go...

--Bill

[Derek @ Feb 19th 2007 12:32PM]

This would only have 3TB usable space in a RAID0...RAID5 would be 2.25TB, and RAID10 (if this thing is even capable of nested RAID) would be 1.5TB. I don't know of anybody who would need 3 terabytes of space who wouldn't want at least some form of parity for that amount of data.