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The Buffalo LinkStation LS-421 Diskless NAS represents a small departure from the norm for Buffalo in that this is the first consumer-oriented unit to be offered as an enclosure without drives. While replacing drives in the previous generation of LinkStations was easy, it's good to see this being offered as an option from the start. GNC has reviewed several Buffalo units
The folks over at Buffalo Technology have announced a screamingly fast external drive, the DriveStation DDR. By adding a 1 GB DDR3 cache to a standard SATA drive, they've created a USB3 hard drive with SSD transfer rates. Write speeds are doubled from around 170 MB/s to over 400 MB/s, which is pretty nippy in anyone's book, and read speeds
Following on from GNC's review of the MiniStation Air earlier this month, Buffalo have a launched the MiniStation Thunderbolt SSD. As you might guess from the name, it's a portable SSD with a Thunderbolt connection so it's ideal for connecting up with Apple Macs. Combining the SSD with Thunderbolt, the MiniStation has a read performance of more than 370 MB/s
The Buffalo MiniStation Air is "wireless streaming storage" for smartphones and tablets that provides 500 GB of extra space. Simply, it's a 500 GB portable hard drive with wifi and complementary apps for Android and iOS. The idea is that the MiniStation Air connects to your PC or laptop via USB 3 and gets loaded up with stacks of music
Storing data in the cloud for access anywhere is certainly popular, but there are times when it's better to have the your own data in your own sticky paws. Buffalo's new 500GB MiniStation Air gives the best of both worlds, with wireless 11n access from smartphones and tablets in a pocketable form-factor; it's only 84 x 23 x 130 mm. The
Last weekend, I upgraded my NAS from 2 TB to 4 TB and it was all too easy. The NAS is a Buffalo LinkStation Duo but as the drives are mirrored, I only get half the total 2 TB capacity, i.e. 1 TB. I was getting pretty close to having the full terabyte of data on the unit, so I decided
Earlier in the week at Gadget Show Live, I spoke with Fabian Rousseau, Buffalo's Director of Product Marketing about the TeraStation network storage units. The TeraStation range is being revamped with a new numbering scheme to make it easier to understand the different models and the number of drives in each one. On display was the TeraStation 5800, which has