Nah,
Buffalo's latest don't sport a gigabit Ethernet connection, but the 1TB HD-Q1.0TSU2/R5 and 2TB HD-Q2.0TSU2/R5 external hard drives do feature both USB 2.0 and eSATA options. The Quattro drives are the outfit's newest additions to the
DriveStation lineup, and aside from offering up terabytes of stores in RAID scenarios, it also sports SecureLockWare for automatic encryption, Memeo AutoBackup, and near silent operation. Each unit touts four 7,200 RPM HDDs, RAID 0/1/5 and JBOD functionality, and just in case your PC doesn't play nice with eSATA just yet, it comes bundled with a "free" eSATA PCI card and back plate to get you going. Available right now, the 1TB flavor will run you $599, while you can double your capacity for an extra four Benjamins.
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posted Mar 15th 2007 9:17PM
600 dollars! Wow... Might as well get a nice NAS system for the home...
http://www.gadgetgrid.com/2007/03/06/infrant-home-nas/
Unfortunately that little NAS box doesn't come with hard drives monsieur Scooter.
Andy, you are sadly mistaken if you think this thing comes with drives in it...
Why should I be sadly mistaken? It says in the article that it is available for $599.
"the 1TB flavor will run you $599, while you can double your capacity for an extra four Benjamins."
Not to mention,
Western Digital My Book World II are running $450 for 1TB.
No RAID functionality or eSATA but the basic package is there, but is priced accordingly.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136083
these are great but I'd rather use an old computer and some new hard drives
This is Buffalo's best product line, IMO. If only it were about $300 cheaper...
I'm waiting for the 4TB flavour
What if your like me...looking for a good device to set in your parent's office to back up business data in a more redundant environment than their current aging 80-120G non redundant drives. I've tried giving them a server with enough storage but they never keep it running and if it shuts down or breaks. They leave it down until I come home to fix it and tape drives with any capacity are too expensive to buy/maintain (last time I checked). It sounds totally awesome to have a device set up to leave untouched and unmaintained for as long as it lasts. Trust me, I've tried a Linux server built from my old PC parts (nothing to sneeze at) and everything. The PC solution just doesn't cut it when you mainly use it for backup purposes. To them having a PC they can't use seems worthless. Without a monitor, this is a "data safe" to them. With 1TB, they could back up both PCs and the laptop and still have room for aged backups. With RAID5, alerting, and all that, they should only have to replace a failing drive (or take it to the local shop to do it) without me having to fly home. To a tech, this is probably too simplistic (hell, I have 1.6TB of Hardware controlled RAID5 storage on MY server), but to a small farm based business, it might be just what they need...
I've got an older Buffalo Terastation at work, and an Infrant NAS at home. They're both pretty good. The Infrant has more and better features, but I'm not sure that it's worth twice the price.
I have tried looking everywhere for this, but cannot find it in stock. I actually tried purchasing it in February and was told it would be in stock in around a week. now it is still on back order and is supposed to be released on the 23rd or 26th. Any idea what is going on?
I just talked to a pre-sales rep for this product and he told me that the unit isn't made to be servisable by the customer. i.e. if a drive fails you must return your unit to them for replacement or repair... they may also send you another box so you can "backup" all of your contents if it needs to be replaced.
That seems a little strange - since one of the selling points of RAID is its redundancy and the fact that you should be able to be up and going again instantly ... so long as you can replace the broken drive. But it looks like if that were to happen you'd actually have to go through the hassle of backing up the entire boxes content to another and sending it back to them for servicing - even though you may only have one dead drive?
Does this make sense? It was a deal breaker for me... I was just about to buy this product.
This review claims the drives are user-replaceable:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/110682/buffalo-drivestation-quattro.html
Might void the warranty, though.