Buffalo Technology TeraStation – 1000GB NAS Server

By | November 9th, 2004 comments icon (2) Comments


buffalo technology terastationForget about buying a sub-300GB external hard drive or network attached storage (NAS) server. Save your money and wait for Buffalo Technology’s “TeraStation,” a 1000GB (4 x 250GB) monster NAS server for roughly a $1,000 that the company has just released in Japan.

The TeraStation, which will hopefully be available in the states early next year, is both Macintosh and Windows compatible, capable of RAID-1 (creates an exact copy of all of data on two or more disks) or RAID-5 storage configurations (better redundancy option in case one drive fails), and provides both a 1000Mbps Gigabit Ehternet (standard Ethernet is 10/100Mbps) port and USB 2.0 port for direct to PC connectivity.

If you’re contemplating why you should purchase 1000GB of storage, think of the TeraStation as the family’s digital vault. A storage server where everyone can dump their music files, DVD backups, family videos, family photos, etc. and have the ability to distribute the shared content around the house to any networked device or to the Internet. And since the TeraStation offers RAID-5, you can sleep easy knowing that if one of the four drives fails you can easily swap in a new, generic 250GB hard drive and be up and running without losing any information.

* Editor’s note: RAID-5 parity data will reduce your total storage to around 750GB — more info on RAID configurations

Via: Gizmodo





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  • rshassell

    Looks like it’s finally coming to the US. This article claims it will debut here sometime in February.

    Buffalo TeraStation

  • rshassell

    Perusing Buffalo’s website for more information about their TeraStation, I ran across this interesting tidbit.

    “By offering a total of four USB 2.0 ports, the device can accommodate additional external USB hard drives for expanded networked storage or as backup targets, a USB printer that can be managed and shared on the network or even up to two USB TV tuners to allow the recording of television programs for later viewing. In fact, a TeraStation can even be cascaded with another TeraStation via USB to expand network available storage well beyond the single Terabyte level.”

    Does this imply that the Terastation can manage up to 2 USB TV tuners, and record programs all by itself? Or will it still require a networked PC to control them?