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Product Features
- Quick Swap Drives: Easily accessible drives for quick replacement
- Web Access: Share your photos, music, videos or data files with family, friends and colleagues over the Internet
- Shared Storage: Store and share files from multiple PCs, laptops and Mac computers in one central location
- Time Machine Support: Use the LinkStation Duo with Time Machine backup
- Stream content to any DLNA compatible media player or use LinkStation Duo as content source from within your iTunes application
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Great general-purpose NAS, February 26, 2011
This review is from Buffalo Technology LinkStation Duo 4 TB (2 x 2 TB) Network Attached Storage LS-WX4.0TL/R1
Been using this NAS since early 01/2011. nice product!* (See Minor Issue &
Suggestions.)
The Good:
Firmware updates have gone smoothly and almost about everything
works the approach it ought to. I even have watched home video files
wirelessly, viewed photos wirelessly, edited workplace 2010 files.
NAS simply networked across a Cisco router to Windows XP and
Windows seven. The free net access to the NAS conjointly works well.
Software for the NAS put in on each competently and therefore
the NAS works for our wants. I actually suggest you modify the RAID
setting from one 2GB array to one 1GB drive/backup array.
Best safety however worst performance throughout copying.
(Reading is simply fine.) The iTunes media server works okay.
The LG BD590 will see the media server and therefore
the drive on the network, that the BD590 will scan files by their original
folder structures or by the media server's structure.
*Minor(?) Issues: Are you a techie? If not, be terribly careful if you
choose to line up the system in duplicating RAID mode. Since the OS
is on the drives themselves, messing up the RAID reconfiguration might
brick your NAS. Also, the online management interface is s-l-o-w...so slow,
in fact, you may suppose your NAS locked up whereas you stay up for
the page to refresh. Conjointly - the metal ring handles within the case
rattle...a LOT. Most in order that I had to place 2 very little folded items
of paper between the laborious drives and therefore the ring handles.
Currently they do not rattle, however the frontside vents are slightly blocked.
The NAS still appears to run fairly cool, though.
Suggestions:
1. drive spin-down however not NAS shut-down. There are many "green"
choices for the NAS, together with setting times for power-up and shut-down
and linking power-up to networked PCs running the NAS software. The draw
back is that the drives keep spinning all the time whereas the system is on.
Previous expertise with a WD World Book NAS - another a system that never
spun down - failed when thirteen months. one thing tells me that I higher
have a backup of my LinkStation on my FreeAgent simply in case.
2. Direct affiliation to a battery backup. True, the NAS is linked to native
network PCs, however what happens once you set the drive to "always on"
before you quit of city therefore you'll be able to use files remotely? If you
lose power at home, the NAS won't shut down it'll simply lose power as soon
because the UPS is exhausted. I simply do not see the added value of the
LinkStation professional pair only for this feature.
