As household small offices acquire more computing devices, being able to access your files over a LAN is an invaluable aid to productivity. This one Terabyte external storage device from Buffalo Technologies is a NAS (Network Attached Storage) drive.

Design is not a sore point with its light-black color, arched base, Kensington lock, and stream-lined front. An activity light and function button are placed at the front, and the power input, Ethernet port, power switch and USB port are at the rear. If its available drive capacity of 923.-8 GB isn't sufficient, more space can be added by plugging in hard disk drives or pen drives to the USB port provided. A USB-a network-shared printer on your LAN. The power-switch can be toggled between On, Off, and an Auto mode for power saving - which keeps the UnkStation powered down until any PC connects to the network with Buffalo's NAS Navigator 2 software.

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When you install its sofrware from the CD provided, the device is setup with an IP address and a default share. Settings that you might want to make to it to suit your usage pattern can be accessed over a Web interface. You can set it to download files over the Bittorrent protocol, enable media YOU'LL HAVE TO be download happy to fill up this drive soon. tionality already built-in is extended by the bundled Memeo AutoBackup which helps you setup backup schedules. Backups can be saved onto the LinkStation's own drive or the attached USB storage device. It also enables you to access your photos, music, movies, and data from anywhere over the Internet via a special URL.

We measured real-world speeds of this NAS drive by reading from and writing files to it on a dedicated Gigabit LAN. Read and write speeds averaged at 13.86 MBps and 12.87 MBps respectively. Writing small files brought the speed down to 5.31 MBps. This drive has a limited warranty of three years.