Straightforward and fast

For me, NAS was completely new territory. My goal was to evaluate the contents of various public clouds, in which one its files nowadays distributed haphazardly to get physically and fail-safe back home, but they do at the same time via the Internet at any time and from everywhere.

The LinkStation has thereby proved to be really thoughtful and easy-to-use solution that meets all my needs.

The decor is strictly foolproof and takes place via the browser in the home network. Excited I was, how fine you can assign rights to the stored content.

Merely switching from RAID 0 to RAID 1 (mirroring HDDs) needed for 2 HDDs à 3TB quite his time (several days and nights), as the parts 1 bit obviously: 1 rewritten. However, this is usually a one-time process.

That it anyway in the long run is not optimal that Buffalo has defined the Device Admin as "admin" with a password by default 08/15, is obvious. Accomplishing this is quickly changed with a few settings.

From time circuit Webaccess via DLNA and even iTunesServer to uncomplicated integration of partitions as Windows drive, the part offers everything I had imagined so - and it all works preoblemlos.

The transmission speed is enough for me to also stream HD movies on the network smoothly.

The service is good, anyway, the Buffalo hotline is really hard when you have a problem - even if the virtualized friendly staff from Eastern Europe the phone in not always perfect German decreases.

Only the mobile web access apps (Android and iOS) could slightly better performance and be optically chic.