Buffalo TeraStation Pro II TS-H3.0TGL/R5

Advantages: Solid, feature packed, easy to use
Disadvantages: Not as fast as direct attached storage, plus a little noisy.

...I have been using my Buffalo (called 'Bertie'!) for over 4 months now, and it has worked very well indeed. Bertie is connected to my gigabit switch and is accessed by 4 other computers, and it also hosts a file sharing site too. The drive sits in a Windows environment, and is very easy to connect up. After a 15 second boot process, you access the features of the drive through a browser. All the usual tools for network drives are there, plus some seriously useful user permissions, and trashcan tools. It has hot swappable drives too (I bought a spare just in case), but this sold beast I feel will never breakdown. It's not the quietest drive in the world, but this is a minor annoyance. The actual data transfer over the network is not as fast as directly attached storage, but the benefits of using a network far out weigh this. When I need... Read review

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Advantages: Small, Capacity, Ease of use, Setup
Disadvantages: None as yet!

...that are not a patch on the Terastation and would have needed much intervention and care within 12 months - touch wood - I have barely even looked at it and it still runs as if it were brand new out of the box. Recommended - And now Im off to spend this years storage budget on a Terastation Pro 2.0!... Read review

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Advantages: All that storage
Disadvantages: Price for the home user

...I'm an impulse buyer...If I sit and think about it long enough, I will talk myself out of stuff....I'm glad I didn't talk myself out of this. Yes, over £600 is a bit steep for an impulse buy...but it's worth every penny. It must be the easiest bit of hardware to set up that I've ever bought. What does it offer? Built-in USB 2.0 Print Server Four 250Gb Drives Four Operational Modes to allow massive volume or fault tolerant RAID arrays. Robust User and Group level permissions Gigabit Ethernet connection with Jumbo Frame support Easily removable hard drive rack to swap drives as needed 4 USB Ports for countless connection scenarios Oversized fan allows ultra-silent operation Plug it into your router, switch it on, decide how you'd like the disk array to work (raiding etc) and away you go. If you're anything like me, you'll spend... Read review

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