BUFFALO LinkStation 210 6TB Home Office Private Cloud Storage NAS with Hard Drives

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The whole reason I ordered this inside Australia was because was quoted as Australia supplier. I could have ordered this from the States myself at almost half of this price. But the main reason is because of come with an authorized Australian 240v plug, instead it came with an US plug and you included a non compliant 240v Australian plug. So now I have to buy complaint 240v adaptor. All this supplier is, is a drop shipper.

Exceeds expectations so far. All I really wanted was a basic network storage drive for my home office so I can have that magic "L:" drive or whatever accessible by all my machines on the network can map to for central location storage location for test data, business admin data, personal data, whatever. Being my first NAS I decided to go with this less-expensive model (without RAID) as a low-risk intro, and so far I'm very impressed. Bonus Features: This is probably why most other people buy this thing, but I like the idea of it doubling as a media server for the whole home wifi network also. NOTES for PC users - read this and it might save you a few minutes: -I noticed some negative comments about the setup, and it can be a little misleading. It actually came with a cd/dvd, and the setup instructions (which ironically you don't really end up needing) said you're supposed to run the driver setup from the dvd (as if everyone still has a dvd drive!). Not having dvd drive I downloaded the software from Buffalo support site, and it said "it couldn't find a device on the network that needs updating". To me this sounded like it couldn't find the drive, but after getting a little frustrated and researching it turns out the firmware was just already up-to-date. Logging into my router admin I could see the device just fine and get its IP, and the admin tool accessible by typing the ip into a browser is nice and intuitive (if you're remotely familiar with basic pc/networking concepts). It is there where I started looking around at features and discovered I can plug a usb storage device right into this thing AND easily set up backup jobs from the drive to the storage drive. Also cool I can actually see the USB drive from that network share also - pretty sweet and versatile looking. Overall I give it a 4.7 out of 5.0 so (-0.1 for slightly misleading instructions, and -0.2 because it actually had a dvd come with it! lol)

Si quieres almacenamiento paro también reproducir media, este es tu producto. Tiene excelente costo beneficio. Recomiendo que se use junto con un disco duro USB para tener respaldo redundante de tus archivos críticos.

I would give this a 5 Star review except for a one reason. Keep in mind, the drive out of the box is set up to be a 3TB mirrored drive (RAID 1). If you want 6TBs you have to manually reconfigure it to be RAID 0 (not mirrored-not a big deal and not a reason to drop a Star). What stops me from rating it 5 Stars is the data transfer speeds. The manufacturer claims you can do a data transfer Network drive to Network drive using their USB ports. I also have a 12TB LinkStation that I needed to go to because, believe it or not, I burned all 6TBs on videos and needed more room. It took 2-1/2 days to transfer the data from the 6TB to 12TB drive because when you copy the files it goes through your computer which, even with a Gigabit router it does the copy through your computer and the transfer rate is only 10MB/sec - 12MB/sec. Again, the documentation claims you can do a direct transfer through USB ports on the drives, but neither drive will recognize the other drive when connected by a USB cable. I am fairly tech savvy, did a lot of research on how it is supposed to work, tried a number of different methods, but none of them worked. In short, their direct transfer "function" simply does not work. But the drives themselves work very well. I use my Smart Blu Ray player and my Smart TV to access the videos on the drives all the time.