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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

Advantages: Very fast, high capacity.
Disadvantages: Pricey, may be outlived by long-life Blu-ray discs.

As our latest project comes to a close and we face losing any unused capital we again raise the idea of network storage with the boss. It's something we have mentioned repeatedly and suddenly find ourselves with an offer of whatever we can get for £1000. Taking our initiative from the US government we decide why buy one device when we could buy two of these? Thus we have one for our network project and finally a decent sized device for our own backups. ...
...The unit is surprisingly compact and although it may look like a midi-sized PC case in the picture it is actually a lot smaller measuring a little over 6 inches high and only 4 inches wide. The back of the case has 2 USB sockets (