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Buffalo Terastation Pro Quad NAS - EOL - 9units Left $298 + $10 Ship to Syd - HT

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Buffalo Terastation Pro Quad NAS - EOL - 9units Left $298 + $10 Ship to Syd - HT
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XeSSiV on 26/03/2013 - 11:47 ht.com.au (376 clicks)

I was looking around the HT site after receiving their newsletter and I saw this on clearance.
I've had a LinkStation Pro Quad for over a year now, and I think it's a great unit for the price I got it for back in the day [$250]. FYI: I can get 70meg/sec stable while transferring large files over gigabit so I would expect this to be at least similar or better.
This unit is more expensive than the LinkStation but I think the extra features justify the price. I believe it also comes with a 3 year warranty. It's also at least $50 cheaper than what I could find on ShopBot/StaticIce [nothing on eBay]
Great review here: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/31504-buffalo…

Highlights:

Intel® Atom™ processor D510 (1.66 GHz dual-core / 2 GB RAM)
Dual gigabit Ethernet ports
2 USB 2.0 ports and 2 USB 3.0 ports with accessory support
Four hot-swap SATA hard drives
Hot spare
RAID 0/1/5/6/10/ Normal (JBOD)
Active Directory support
DFS Namespace support
Disk quota support
Scheduled or real-time replication to other TeraStation devices
Failover support
Remote file access via WebAccess and FTP/SFTP
10 licenses of NovaBACKUP Business Essentials v12 (SQL and Exchange backup agents)

Here's the feature rundown:

Individual drive, RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 modes (no JBOD)
Two RAID arrays can be created
RAID expansion and migration
Multiple expandable volumes can be created via LVM
Optional AES-128 drive encryption
Network file sharing via SMB/CIFS, AFP and NFS
NT Domain and AD support
Users and Group creation w/ Quotas for both
FTP / FTP-S server
HTTP / HTTPs file and admin access (not auto-forwarded)
Email alerts
Logging: Syslog and viewable / downloadable system, SMB and FTP logs
Backup: Schedulable and immediate to other Buffalo NASes only (no non-Buffalo rsync support) and attached USB drive. 10 licenses of NovaBACKUP Business Essentials Backup Included:
FAT, NTFS, EXT3, XFS write/read USB drive support
Apple Time Machine backup support
Secure Web-based remote access (hosted at buffalonas.com)
USB printer serving
UPnP AV / DLNA media server (Twonky Media)
iTunes server
Web server w/ MySQL
BitTorrent downloader
UPS shutdown sync (via USB or serial)
DFS support
File / folder name search
Computing Buffalo NAS

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  • nfr on 26/03/2013 - 11:59

    Is it better than HP micro server?

    • scottr on 26/03/2013 - 12:00

      not sure what cpu the HP has but this has an Atom, so probably not

    • XeSSiV on 26/03/2013 - 12:05

      It's different to the HP Microserver. This box comes with its operating system already. It is highly customizable, but you don't need to install an OS on it. Downside to this is that if you need more features than it can support then you'd probably want something else.

  • Rakddon on 26/03/2013 - 12:41

    Ordered 1.

    OW would not price match as they have to Special Order it.
    OW is $899

    http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Dat…

    • roadeh on 26/03/2013 - 12:49

      Yeah but its $340 at the next cheapest place on StaticIce, so not quite the super bargain you're making out

  • Rakddon on 26/03/2013 - 13:43

    is this better then the HP N54L?

    • XeSSiV on 26/03/2013 - 14:15

      They're slightly different… Please read my reply above. You can do more with the HP to a degree but this is ready to go out of the box, you just need to throw in the drives - and in some ways this has more features - I don't think the HP has USB3

  • krisspy on 26/03/2013 - 15:21

    If you have to ask if this is better that the proliant server, chances are you dont need the extra features the micro server can give.

    Your paying for a nas that's ready to go here, instead of a blank canvas with the proiant.

    • dzhay on 26/03/2013 - 17:43
      -1

      Let's be honest, if you don't know the difference between a small low-power pc and a NAS, you probably don't need either.

      • Rakddon on 26/03/2013 - 18:02
        +1

        lol, i can use the HP as a NAS as well

        so please keep your smart ass comment to yourself.

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