Mooie verpakking van BuffaloGoed merkWas niet moeilijk te installeren

JANUARY 2020: well, just over two years have passed and everything still works just fine as described in some detail below. Firmware updated several times without problems. Easy to use the webpage interface to tweak settings. A product that works and continues to work in a market where it seems to be difficult to get satisfaction. Still recommended without reservation.This was my third attempt at satisfaction with NAS products: I'd previously had a 2Tb single bay WD MyCloud which displayed an 'unrecognised fault' and would not work even after trying the recommended 'fixes'. It was returned for a refund. It was replaced by a 3Tb single bay WD MyCloud. This did not work, either. It too, was returned for a refund. After watching the excellent Buffalo videos online I decided to test my patience [and probably that of Amazon!] further and ordered this two-bay/two disk 4Tb Buffalo. The video presentation was very reassuring: informative, without being overwhelming. An exemplar of clarity. I felt confident that I knew what to do before the product arrived. I am pleased to report that this one worked out-of-the-box and was relatively hassle-free to configure. I have a Cocktail Audio/NovaFidelity audio server. It works very well using its own internal hard disk. I wanted to be able to stream material from NAS storage to it using DLNA. If you were thinking along the same lines, take comfort from knowing that my Cocktail Audio unit found the Buffalo NAS immediately via wifi. I was at least as delighted as I was surprised - beyond amazed, lantern-jawed, actually! Everything was there, including numerous options for 'recently added' and 'recently played' playlists. Absolutely stellar. It all works. And it works perfectly: no delays, no stuttering, even with FLAC and WAV files of considerable size and bit-rate. It has never pixelated streaming videos, either.After several hours I was prompted to update the firmware. This I did. It too, was a hassle-free experience. Nothing frightening: not once did I fear 'bricking' the device. The option to set up to three scheduled alarms during any 24-hour period across one or more days of the week is useful. On the grounds of saving cost and the planet, it is a pity that the two disks cannot [apparently] be made to hibernate after a specified period of inactivity. However, in all fairness, this and other NAS devices take quite some time to start up and sort themselves out - it's not the same as waking a normal hard disk that has gone to sleep, so it's easy to imagine operation problems if the disk(s) are not ready and waiting for action.The part of the configuration that I found a mite challenging was converting the two disks to work as one, this is the RAID 0 option; the device came configured with the second drive being set up to 'mirror' the contents of the first - the RAID 1 option. Be aware, that if you transfer files to the device when it is working in RAID 1 mode, that you will lose any data that you transferred when the disks are reformatted by the setup procedure that converts the device from RAID 1 mode to RAID 0.As a final attempt to be relevant and helpful, resist the temptation to change the User Name and Password when you're going through the initial setup. If you have difficulties, the last thing anyone wants is faffing about entering long strings of upper and lower-case characters with symbols included. Leave at 'admin' and 'password' until you're confident that all is well. No-one is likely to break into your NAS in the initial configuration and setup stages. Don't forget though to change to something longer and much more robust, eventually.Oh, it looks good, too. Much better than average matt plastic. Very well put together. No creaks or feelings of flimsiness.I hope to have been helpful.

I purchased this NAS primarily because of the price (£150) as at the time of purchase two 2TB drives would be about £120 making the enclosure only £30. This was very cheap in comparison to other units as you can pay upwards of £100 just for the enclosure. I wasn’t looking for anything spectacular as I am happy with just dragging and dropping files onto network locations, which I felt this would do fine. When you need to replace the hard drives you will need to use ones from Buffalo, which can me more expensive than other options, however I can’t see myself doing this for some time.From reviews I was a bit hesitant about the setting up of the device but for me it was very smooth. The instructions are basic, but do say to turn on the device and wait 4 minutes until the light stops flashing - this only took a couple of minutes and installing the software was a piece of cake. It recognised the Linkstation on the network and was ready for use from power on in 10 minutes.Getting to the settings is not that obvious as either you open the software and then find the 'settings' button, which opens a browser to the IP address of the NAS, or you can manually type the IP address into your browser - the unit usefully outputs a text file on your desktop with all the details when installed. The instructions don’t tell you this so you may miss it but it is helpful as you know the IP address to connect to.Once in the settings I found the unit was set by default at RAID 1 (mirrored). This is what I wanted so I was pleased it was set up this way. Having read the full instruction booklet online beforehand I knew I would need to enable AFP so a Macbook on the network could use it. So after going through all the settings over about 5 minutes I set everything how I wanted it, including the creation of more folders on the drive for people to use. I have not added usernames and passwords – but note that from a Macbook I needed to input the administrator details to use it with Time Machine. This was simple as well from the Macbook as it was automatically recognised on the network.Transferring files is as easy as drag and drop – I saw an option called Direct Copy in the settings which I enabled as I presumed this was needed to do so (but I can’t confirm). I plugged an external hard drive to my laptop on the network with the NAS (via Ethernet) and started copying. One hard drive maxed at 5MB/s (50Mbit/s) for lots of small files but a second hard drive at the same time maxed at 10MB/s (100Mbit/s) for less but larger files. For the larger files just over 300GB was transferred overnight (approx. 12 hours) so averaged 7MB/s, but the drive with the smaller files took much longer (was due to take 24 hours) so would be 3.5MB/s. Pretty slow, but this is a one off backup.I have backed up to the NAS box since the initial backup via Time Machine and this was simple. I don’t use it as a media store/access unit and it remains off most of the time, however when in use it is very straightforward. All in all it is a good unit and well worth the price in my opinion. As I mentioned earlier its effective price was £30 as it comes with hard drives so I’m very happy with it.

Habe das NAS-System erst vor kurzem installiert. Sie verrichtet super ihren Dienst. Das System läuft mit 2 HDs als Raid1. Dann ist am USB-Port noch eine externe HD für eine weitere Datensicherung konfiguriert.Habe aber mit den Anleitungen doch einige Schwierigkeiten gehabt. Fand ich nicht so toll. Das was mir am besten gefällt, man benötigt nur noch diese kleine (äussere Maße) Anlage als Server.Habe noch etliche Schwierigkeiten mit der Musik-Nutzung über MacBook, iPad, iPhone.Hoffe noch, dass ich jemand finde der ein ähnliches System nutzt.Dann werde ich weiter rezensieren.

Ottimo prodotto,pratico,silenzioso,di facile istallazione e poco ingombrante,mi è stato consegnato in tempi da record,diversi giorni prima della data prevista. Lo consiglio a chi non ha grosse esigenze di beckup,a piccole aziende,a chi ha degli hobbys,ti permette di salvare una infinità di dati evitando così di avere montagne di materiale cartaceo.Per la mia esperienza si merita il massimo dei voti.A presto per altri acquisti.Cordiali saluti.Piero