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Advantages: Reliable, Quiet and Fast
Disadvantages: None as of yet

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 ...
...lot about Baffalo as a company, in terms of the effort they put into developing their products. I also like the sleek yet robust design, as mentioned they have a good sturdy feel. It is simple to use straight out of the box and easily intergrated into a network, primarily used as back-up in my case. ... Read review

Advantages: idea
Disadvantages: performance

...specs and even talked to Lacie before purchasing, so I was sure that the promised specs were true. After many time waiting due to the difficulty of getting this unit in spain, I finally got the drive, and then all the surprises came. The unit is in general terms very slow; we use a normal ethernet LAN and the performance compared with other drives is very poor. Even the connection via USB is very slow, nothing to do with the [theoric] 400MB speed ...
...I started multiple trheads with Lacie support and all ended in confirming the poor performance of the unit; they do not officially or non-oficially stated at any time this, but followed the typical customer support technique of getting you tired of getting nothing solved. They sayed for example that this was a 'USB-ethernet connection' which is 'intended to be slower than ethernet', and always ended the support with the instructions for resetting ... Read review