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Advantages: Quiet, fast, small, easy to set up, easy to use
Disadvantages: Err.......

...by an ethernet cable. Fortunately Buffalo have thought to provide one. Even better, it's a flat one, so will happily run under your carpet if so required. Both Euro and GB type wall plugs are included, as is a CD with software on it. It looks ok as well, although that's fairly subjective really. I wouldn't mind it sitting on the bookcase in full view, but my wife would. Setup Without any intervention at all, it picked up it's IP address from the ...
...away in the background. It is already set up with an area called SHARE, which is, well, the shared area. Without installing any software, or performing any setup of any kind, I was able to open My Network Places (in Windows of course), navigate to my workgroup (called WORKGROUP) and there was the linkstation. I was able to create new folders under SHARE, and copy data to it straight away. Unless you have changed your workgroup name from the default, ... Read review

Advantages: In theory should provide LAN based storage.
Disadvantages: Theory and application do not match!

...- The FAQ's on the Netgear site are out of date and inaccurate. - No warnings on the box about this product not supporting Win XP media centre editions. It is highly unstable, can lock up your PC as it ponders on something (that using PROCEXP and looking at the ZSAN driver that is the core of the machine, cannot identify). The data transfer rates, if you do get it running, are pedestrian at best. I have a number of computers running either XP (4) ...
...HP or Compaq brand laptops with Vista despite the claim of Vista support. On XP I have managed to get intermittent operation on 2 old computers - Pentium 3 and Pentium 4, cannot get it to work on dual core products! For a product that has been around for a couple of years the stability has never appeared! Stear CLEAR of this product! ... 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: Customizable, connect your own USB hard disk/flash drives, low powered, small.
Disadvantages: Poor manufacture support & documentation, only 4 megabyte/sec transfer rate.

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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 (one to connect to a PC, the other to network a printer). There's also a standard auto-sensing LAN port (10/100/1000 megabit compatible), an on/off switch (which also has an auto setting) and a rather curious, possibly James ... Read review