engadget.com — Meet Buffalo's new 3TB (yeah, 3,000GB) TeraStation PRO storage solution for your home network. It's still the same ol' box -- RAID 1/5/10 (across 4x disks), 38MB/s transfer rate (Raid 5), gigabit Ethernet, Active Directory integration, integrated UPS and 2x USB 2.0 jacks to swing even more disk from.
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steven401Feb 15, 2007
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cam0manFeb 16, 2007
too bad they make a horrible product and fail all the time. I used to work for a data storage company and everyone of our new customers who was changing from a cheaper solution was switching from a broke Buffalo Technologies product. Just grab a couple of drives and build a serve for your house with some redundancy.
Closed AccountFeb 16, 2007
Uh yeah... you can make one yourself for a fraction of the cost.
zeronitroFeb 16, 2007
38MB/s? did i read that right?is that sustained transfer? and that's over firewire right? cause USB2 can sustain that much for more then say... half a second or so. and over gigabit ethernet? really? reeeaaaaally? my internal 7200rpm sata can sustain more then 50MB/sec, so i hope that's a typo.that is horribly slow, even for a RAID5 config and they should be ashamed of themselves. dear god... with gigabit ethernet it should at the very least be killing that entire pipe at around 100MB/sec.at least offer Firewire 800 and external-SATA if you wanna do it right.oh, and build it yourself for less then half the cost.
mesachFeb 16, 2007
Formatted its only 2632GB, or something like that
jpopFeb 16, 2007
> 7x 500 and one 750($180) for 4.25 tbHow the heck are you RAID'ing that then? If you use the 750 with the 500's, you'll lose 250GB. If you have it by itself, it's not redundant so something happens to it, all the data on it is toast. Or am I missing something there.>>FYI, standard 7200 rpm drives consume approximately 15 watts during the most intensive write patterns.Ah, gotcha. Still, I think they spike a smidgeon over that on boot up. Do SATA controllers usually stagger the drives on bootup so you don't get a larger spike from all the drives spinning up at once?Either way, I still wouldn't trust some generic power supply to power it. It says 250/350 watts on it, but does it really provide that? You got 3-4TB of data in the machine, you want it as safe as you can get it because you really take a hit if it goes down due to the power supply frying. Let's assume $100 at least there.Re. the motherboards, you indicated an old board, I was guesstimateing no gigabit support (I've got 3 computers, only 1 board has gigabit support. It turned out to be crappy compatibilitywise and I had to get a PCI gigabit card to get any performance on my network and still do P2P). A gigabit card's not really that big a deal either way (like I said, 20 bucks).re. Shipping, I was really considering it a wash (shipping for misc items vs shipping for the NAS), that's why I didn't include it.re. Timewise, to be honest, I think you are underestimating it by 2 to 3 times. Or are you including researching the devices and support in that 5 hours? You can buy cheap drives/controllers/MB's and all, but you need to research whatever NAS software you get to make sure it is compatible. Otherwise you might get something without drivers or having problems with linux for whatever NAS variant you go down (ie. you don't want to start off in a situation where those cheapie PCI SATA cards don't work with FreeBSD and you don't find out until you've got everything plugged in and it is dieing in the middle of initializing the drives). You *seem* to be assuming that you just go to a website and get the cheapest stuff, plug it all in and everything's almost hunky dory (an hour to unwrap, to put it all together, 4 hours to install/test/etc). Maybe you're right here and it does go that smoothly. However, you've obviously put together enough systems to know that it doesn't always go that way.
jpopFeb 16, 2007
Incidentally, in re. that 24 port SATA-II card. Daaaaammmnnn.... I'd hate to see the case and cooling you'd need for that many drives... lol...
groverblueFeb 16, 2007
infrant.com has nice stuff
gigarizilMay 2, 2007
Don't buy Buffalo Tech if you value your data! They have unapplogetically screwed me and made my worst nightmare a reality. I had one of their RAID 5 TerraStations fail on me. I was using RAID 5 a backup since any one drive can die and your data survives I had too much data and not enough money for more than one of these drives. I had 10 years of professional photography on that drive. When I called Buffalo support the tech told me that the drives were fine but there was some problem w/ the server chip running on the Terra Station. I told him I had critical data and wanted to remove the drives before sending it in. He responded that I could not because it would void my warranty and that they were the only ones who could repair the device and that they wouldn't format the drives. I waited several months and called everyplace I could think of, sure enough no one else repaired their server. Finally reluctantly I sent in my drive, made sure that the ticket Buffalo had said do not format, wrote a letter explaining there was irreplaceable data. and then covered the drive with stickers that said in large letters "DO NOT FORMAT!"Guess what they did. Yes, they destroyed everything. They don't even have an internal tracking system and lost the drive immediately after receiving it. The support is incompetent and the product is unreliable, buyer beware.