Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Review of 1TB Buffalo Technology TeraStation Pro II
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 08:00 AM
"Buffalo Technology has traditionally been a big player in the entry-level NAS appliance market thanks to its TeraStation products. The TeraStation Pro impressed with its excellent range of features and tempting price tag and now we take a look at the TeraStation Pro II, which aims to improve on the performance of its predecessor. There’s nothing new to see externally as the Pro II uses the same chassis as the Pro model and you also get the same backlit LCD display above the drives. A button alongside enables you to cycle through viewing the status of the network connection and its assigned IP address, the date and time, which disks are in use and the RAID configurations. The network connection is still served by a single Gigabit Ethernet port and the USB port count remains at two. These are used to connect external storage devices but note that USB printers are still not supported."
Hmm, I don't know if this is worth the almost $1000, especially if I get only 1TB. It does offer hot swap capabilities and multiple RAID configurations, but other than the hot swappability, I don't know what I wouldn't get from a nice motherboard that supports RAID. Plus, with the latter, I would have an actual machine as well. Honestly, if there was a NAS device I would get now, it would only be the Drobo.
Hmm, I don't know if this is worth the almost $1000, especially if I get only 1TB. It does offer hot swap capabilities and multiple RAID configurations, but other than the hot swappability, I don't know what I wouldn't get from a nice motherboard that supports RAID. Plus, with the latter, I would have an actual machine as well. Honestly, if there was a NAS device I would get now, it would only be the Drobo.
