Buffalo LinkStation Live LS-CH1.5TL

I bought this unit as I have two desktop PCs and a laptop, my wife has a laptop, and our lodger has a laptop, and we need a central backup and sharing location The linkstation arrived on a rainy Saturday afternoon, which was perfect, as it gave me an excuse to set it up straight away. Having several PCs and laptops around (self employed IT consultant) I found myself in need of a suitable backup solution, which would also allow me to have a shared storage area, so I can use which ever pc is handiest for whatever job I am working on. In addition to this, we have an ever growing music collection ... more

In this ever-growing digital world, where for entertainment we rely on digital cameras, MP3 files and movie downloads, the need for more and more storage space is a weekly, if not daily problem. For those of you who produce projects, such as home videos, the problem is even more evident. Add to this that the average household will have more than one computer, the value of some sort of shared centralised storage device is very valuable indeed. Network Attached Storage devices (or NAS as they are often referred to) are growing in popularity. In their simplest form, they are hard drives that ... more

Most of us have computers, cameras, smartphones and games consoles these days. Our worlds tend to be full of images, audio files, documents and others, spread across all different formats. The problem is what do you do when you loose your camera or your laptop gets damaged or stolen? The loss of the hardware is bad enough, but loosing those precious photos of your child's first step or your wedding video is hell. But all this can be avoided by simply backing up your files. The thought of backing up data worries some home users. It may seem like a realm only for businesses or IT geeks and at ... more

An excellent storage facility, I have been using the Baffalo brand for a number of years now and still use my original 80g unit. Other brands I have used have gone under, causing me to lose some data, so I up to now have no reason to doubt Baffalo's reliability, which is my main concern when choosing storage. Even with a few clumsy people around the place it has handed a few knocks and tumbles with no drama. The newer link stations have become quieter and faster as they develop, which I think says a lot about Baffalo as a company, in terms of the effort they put into developing their products ... more