Thread: Buffalo Drive Station Combo analyze

Buffalo’s 500GB Drive Station Combo 4 external drive is the quickest USB drive we’ve ever tried and it still holds its own on an eSATA connection. That’s thanks to a properness technology called TurboUSB that squeaks extra speeds out of the device.

On Windows XP a Drive Station linked with Turbo USB improved its logical read and write speeds by 20 percent over a distinctive USB connection. The device’s actual world speeds weren’t as striking a mere four percent growth but it was an advance nonetheless.

We didn’t consider some real-world performance betterment among the two modes in Windows Vista because TurboUSB is built into the operating system itself. We’d decidedly utilize this device on XP but it’s a wash with Vista.

The Drive Station arrives with Memeo Auto Backup software and a entire disk security usefulness that hides your drive under 128- or 256-bit AES encoding. The latter program’s lock and unlock shortcuts for the encoding mechanics are mislabeled, but we were more annoyed that it accepted our password via USB but declined it over eSATA.

Minus these channels the Drive Station is a all right external storage product. It’s not blinding a speed trail on its eSATA connection but it blocks the USB pipe

With the drives being DLNA certified pouring capacity to DLNA simpatico devices like the Xbox 360 and PS3 is a cakewalk. The similar applies to iOS devices thanks to a match of free iOS apps the company founded lately. Available now in capabilities ranging from 1TB to 8TB and prices browsing from $189.99 to $1039.99 the drives are crossed under a determined one-year warranty.