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Computer Shopper Issue 213
An excellent way to boost storage on a network

Product Description
The Buffalo TeraStation Live external hard drive is designed to share and store data. It?s DNLA-certified and has 4 SATA disks that you can change easily for saving and archiving files, photos and videos. The TeraStation Live also comes with Ethernet and USB 2.0 ports, so you can connect it to your computer or incorporate it into a network easily, as well as a built-in USB printing server and large fan that dissipates heat efficiently. The TeraStation Live is ideal for busy office environments!

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   36 of 36 people found the following review helpful: Simple and effective., 9 Sep 2006 By  D. Martin "DpMDpMDpM" (Sheffield, UK) - See all my reviews    I bought this to archive my ripped CD and DVD collection, to ensure I had a safe place for them all. So the 750GB RAID 5 setting seemed very appropriate to me. Setup was very easy indeed - plug it into the router (they supply an Ethernet cable) and it will get assigned an IP address, you can give it a name and then access it (from Windows) by \\TERA and the folder names you create on there. Administration is via a pretty fully-featured web console - many options in here. Pretty simple to get around. The device itself is well-built - with a metal casing. It's not as silent as you might hope for... I mean, having it on next to your computer in a quiet study will mean the thing you hear most will be the Terastation - however, it's not like a tornado either. The lights on the front are very attractive and show how the device is writing to individual disks. Now... onto write speeds, which I'm sure is what most people are interested in. Writing to the Terastation in an environment where I have a wireless G network goes at about 1meg per second. That's moving data from a PC with a local disk, connected wirelessly, to the router, to the Terastation. This means many hundreds of gigabytes can take a really, really long time. If you're doing a proper loading of the device from the start, I would suggest you get it wired up via Cat5. Only niggles, and they are only niggles as I didn't buy it for these features (I just tried them to find out how it was) are: 1) I can't get a USB Panasonic Laser Printer to work with the in-built Print Server it advertises. 2) Whenever I attach a USB disk to the Terastation, I can only read from the disk - attempts to write tell me I don't have the permissions... might be something else in the setup I need to look at.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   8 of 8 people found the following review helpful: Excellent priced network storage for all, 6 Sep 2006 By  John Swallow (London, UK) - See all my reviews    As an owner of a Media Center system the one thing you need is storage, and plenty of it. The Terastation is an ideal addition to your network, especially as you can put it anywhere on your network and not need to connect it to a PC - mine's sitting underneath my router for example with the PC in another room. The only downside is when it arrives, it's set with a pre-defined IP address instead of being set to use DHCP to get a valid address for your network which to me would make more sense. Because of this, it didn't work straight out of the box for me, but once I'd put a valid address in it all worked exactly as it should.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   12 of 13 people found the following review helpful: Reliability, 11 Sep 2006 By  R. M. Dewsbery (Burton Upon Trent, Staffordshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews    I've been using one for well over a year now (I bought one when they had just arrived in the UK), and have to say it's performed flawlessly. Sits there quietly, 24/7, eating and regurgitating data, without a single hiccup. [...]  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 6 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews What a total pile of junk I bought one of these from another reseller. It was DOA, I think from a failed cooling fan. It appears that Buffalo's standard procedure is to require a telephone support call... Read more Published 9 months ago by Tobster Risky purchase This is a great product that provides a great way of safely storing pictures/ videos/ files agaist potential hard disk failure. Read more Published 9 months ago by Lance