Buffalo expands LinkStation NAS lineup

If you've been yearning for a well-spec'd, feature packed NAS, Buffalo's latest additions are certainly not what you're interested in, but for those who just need the basics, these units just might fit the bill. The 750GB LS-L750GL, LS-L750GL / M and 1TB LS-L1000GL / M (the M interestingly stands for "Mac-compatible") all sport a fairly unexciting enclosure and an even less entrancing set of amenities. Taking a peek around back (psst, it's after the jump) shows only a fan, lock port, AC plug and an Ethernet jack, but that should be all you need to get an external HDD set up on your network. The 750GB models are set to land early next month for ¥42,300 ($369), while the 1TB iteration will demand ¥63,800 ($557).

[Via AkihabaraNews]

[carl @ Oct 24th 2007 10:42PM]

engadget officially has 2233 pages!!!!!!!

[Maestro @ Oct 24th 2007 10:57PM]

I have a buffalo NAS and it is rock solid, with one HUGE flaw. The default setting after a power outage is OFF. Everything else on my network goes back to power on, but the NAS stays off until I manually start it up. Once that addressed it is an A+ unit.

[Marcos @ Oct 25th 2007 12:17AM]

Mac compatible, huh?
But will it work with Time Machine? This is what 99% of the Mac users in the market for such device are looking for right now.

[Maneki Neko @ Oct 25th 2007 12:36AM]

Is there any NAS out there that when I'm not using it as a network drive, I can plug in via USB/1394/eSATA and use as a regular drive in Windows?

[Fozz @ Oct 25th 2007 2:32AM]

Yes, Lacie's Ethernet Disk Mini can be connected by USB, though it dosen't speed up data transfer. Also it does so by way of some strange IP over USB drivers and Lacie's firmware is crap compared to Buffalo's.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/29790/75/

[Maneki Neko @ Oct 25th 2007 8:52AM]

Thanks Fozz, that's pretty interesting. So I'm guessing there's nothing out there that works like someone would expect? I.e. fat32 formatted plug-and-play USB drive, that happens to also be usable over the network?

[Shaun @ Oct 25th 2007 8:33AM]

As far as I understand scary machine-translations, the Mac models simply feature "easy setup" software for the Mac. It's still windows filesharing, sharing a fixed folder in a fixed workgroup. So it's likely to be kinda nasty with Time Machine, as there'll be no support for filesystem attributes/permissions/etc.

[bert @ Oct 25th 2007 8:27AM]

I have the current Buffalo LiveStation model, well that should be I had the .... The dam thing broke in under 6 months. The Ethernet controller just stopped working. So i emailed Buffalo them daily for about 2 weeks before i heard anything back. So i decided to call them after a 35min wait on the phone i got put through to you guessed it an Indian call centre!
I asked for a exchange but they said I couldn't remove the drive to copy over my data and then send it back without voiding the warranty.
So I thought sod it I need my music back so I just took the drive out and internal mounted it. So now i'm left with an empty cadet on my desk.

Would not recommend a Lacie drive, i had an external USB one a few years ago, still have the cadet on my desk (empty) they ship Maxtor disc with i have had so much problems with in terms corruption

I have got my eye on the 1.5 TB Western Digital NAS My book drive now tis pretty cheap compared to the Buffalo terrastation. If only the hard drives were easily acessable, so you could pop what ever drive you wanted in and out

[dotzeno @ Oct 26th 2007 1:32AM]

i've never used a hdd over a network so i'd like to know whether these are able to limit some users on the network from writing files to it and or where they can write to. also, can this be connected to a computer by RJ11?