The big disadvantage of the LinkStation is its performance:
1. The web interface for configuration is extremely lame - opening a configuration page or the Apply a setting takes sometimes up to 50 seconds !!!!!
2. The transmission speeds:
Indicated on the package: 30 MB / s
Up / Download directly connected to a 1000Mbps Card: 14.0 MB / s
Up / Download a Linksys router with full-duplex 100 Mbps: 7.5 MB / s
That's I think underwhelming ...
Have the part returned and recommend to anyone who plays with the idea of the land for sale to better decide PRO for the Link Station - which is (according to my colleagues) much faster ...
Those who intend only Word documents or few, little data to store - or just has a lot of patience, which is certainly well served with the unit!
Oh - contrary to some reviews I have read on the Inet - the device that I had is inaudible - both Reading / Writing and otherwise.