BUFFALO LS-W1.0TGL/R1 1TB LinkStation Pro Duo NAS

Pros: 1TB striped or 500GB mirrored. Very easy to setup, it came configured striped for maximum size, I switched to mirrored to protect my data. I only have a 10/100 network right now but performance has been good so far. It runs cool to the touch in my computer gear area, and after running it pretty hard it was barely warm.

Cons: Lacking a print server

Pros: A tera-byte of space, What can you say? Worked right out of the box. You may have to adjust your workgroup in order to see it on network places. If not, just search for it "\\Linkstation" and it comes up. Gigabit LAN is nice. Be aware that the setting is set for standard LAN. Not sure if a 10/100 could still access it when its set higher packet size.

Cons: NO PRINT SERVER!!! The best extra is missing...

Overall Review: I have a couple of these things over the years and they are great. The missing print server function is only a peave and will probably be added with a new firmware release. If not, Guess I will have a new kero box by summer's end.

Pros: This has proven to be the single best purchase I have ever made for my home network. The drive is extremely reliable and easy to work with.

Cons: There was some confusion in the initial setup on how to access the drive. I as a normal American Male accept all of the blame in attempting to setup the drive without first reading the directions(or in this case; placing the cd in the drive of my machine and following the prompts).

Overall Review: There are 2 modes for this drive; Manual - drive runs constantly, and Automatic - drive spins down with lack of use. I personally like manual. I have not explored Automatic mode.

Pros: Small compact size, I knew it would be small but I had no idea how small, fit's nicely on the desk. I had no problems setting this up and the web administration interface works great! If you want more network storage this is the one to get.

Cons: none

Pros: Great NAS box for the price. Does everything I need for a home NAS at a reasonable price point.

Cons: Was RAID 0 out of the box, I configured to RAID1. Takes about 3-4 hrs to convert. Had a situation where the HTTP based access was fine, but direct access as a shared folder would not work. Called tech support, didnt really help much, just kept telling me it was a Microsoft problem. Eventually took me a 1/2 hr of trouble shooting to get it working myself, and I have limited networking knowledge. The tech should have pointed me to the asnwer in a few minutes if he was interested. He seemed more inclined to get me off the call to punt me over to Microsoft.

Overall Review: Using XP32 with a Netgear wireless Router Have not tried the buffalonas.com sharing wite. Seems interesting

Pros: I'm a TV producer and I'm using this NAS for homework. Let me put it this way: if it works well for professional SD video editing on a regular basis, it should be more than enough for most people. I get a steady throughput of 15-18 mbps. even using an off-the-shelf, Linksys 10/100 Switch. I did lots of research before settling for the Buffalo. Easy Setup; just follow the instructions and you'll be fine. I'm not a recreational user, so I don't stream media; but I do get glitch-free playback of 8-10 streams of compressed and uncompressed video (AVI, MOV, MPEG, you name it) when I'm editing.

Cons: As other users have noted, you should NOT set the NAS to auto mode. Just turn it on when you're going to use it and turn it off when you don't need it.

Overall Review: Haven't tried to upgrade the included WD hard drives, but after a brief inspection, it doesn't look challenging.

Pros: LinkStation storage rocks, have version 1 running for years with Debian. These are great boxes, when you outgrow the storage, you can turn them into embedded Linux boxes to do stuff like run databases, CVS servers, SVN Servers, small Apache servers--all you do is flash with FreeLink--and hack away. Make great green media servers (less than laptops). Some use the Samsung disks, which are the only ones that I use now.

Cons: Wish that they sold the shell only, so that you can put your own disks in--the KuroBox (the shell version) are slow to ship and hard to find.

Overall Review: Bet I have a whole "Bot Army" of these embedded boxes in my office, we collect and analyze a lot of data, these are perfect.

Pros: No setup required whatsoever. Just plug it in to your network and it gets an IP address automatically and shows up under "Network" as another computer. Has a nice web interface that you can do everything on. RAID setup is very nice. Very quiet. Transfer rates are good on my 10/100 network.

Cons: My only complain is that the web interface is SLOW . . . . . But then again, I'm not in the web interface too much because it runs itself really well.

Overall Review: You don't have to configure it at all out of the box. I did, because I wanted it to have a static IP address, and I wanted to make some different share folders.