Buffalo TeraStation Pro

[TSDible]

Hey all...

I've been looking for an NAS solution for some time. The Buffalo TeraServer really appealed to me, but I didn't want to drop that kind of cash and only have support for PATA drives.

Well, Buffalo has just released the TeraStation Pro. It has support for SATA drives and may be just what I'm looking for.

Has anyone had a chance to see this in action yet? I haven't been able to find a good review.

Any advice and/or links are appreciated.

 

[crobusa]

A search of HD showed several comments on Buffalo and their TeraStation..
Here and here

 

[TSDible]

Originally posted by: crobusa
A search of HD showed several comments on Buffalo and their TeraStation..
Here and here

Yes, those discussions are for the normal TeraStation. I have already read a LOT of reviews on that one and even considered buying one.

The TeraStation Pro is just being released. It has several features that the consumer TeraStation does not have:

- Hot swapable drives
- SATA
- LCD display for drive monitoring

 

[jonny13]

If they would just release a rackmounted one, I would buy one in a heartbeat. Has anybody seen a rackmount NAS that has a terabyte of storage for around the same price? The only other ones I have seen are about $1200 and they don't even include drives.

 

[TSDible]

bumb in case anyone has gotten a hold of one of these yet.

 

[WileCoyote]

Old topic but since nobody replied I thought I'd give you my take on it.

I ordered the TeraStation Pro 0.6 TB for a customer of mine and I took it for a quick spin before installing.

The good: the web interface is awesome and very fast (if you're used to a router's web interface, this is much easier to work with). You can enable it to be a FTP server and customizing users/groups is a breeze. It's nowhere close to active directory but it does the job. It's also pretty damn quiet and generates very little heat.

The bad: If you want Raid 5, I would consider another option. Sustained speed of about 7,000 KB/s with occasional bursts up to 10,000 KB/s. The drives aren't hotswappable as there is no backplane. The hard-drive carriers are pretty flimsy and 3 out of the 4 fell out during shipping. The front door doesn't close all the way as that was also damaged by the hard-drives falling out.

Conclusion: Good for my customer but no way I would buy it - just too slow for what I need.

 

[jwhitt]

just a sugestion take a look at freenas www.freenas.org may be slightly more expencive to build up a system with say 10 hot swappable drives and what not but ive used it on 2 projectss so far and love it id recoment getting an ide-cf adapter and installing it on that then using largs sata drives or whatever your flavor for data drives in a hot swapable cage

 

[jwhitt]

when i said 10 hot swapable drives i ment 10k rpm