BUFFALO LinkStation 210 4TB 1-Bay NAS Network Attached Storage with HDD Hard Drives Included NAS Storage that Works as Home Cloud or Network Storage Device for Home

Absolutely amazing experience thus far, it's been around 2-3~ years with this product and I've had little to zero issues. It does randomly crash and need restart maybe once every like six months, but no data corruption occurs and it handles power outages great.

So far I'm impressed by how well this is working, even for being essentially six year old technology. I prefer WD NAS boxes but got a great deal on this 4tb Buffalo 210 on Amazon warehouse, so good in fact that I was willing to buy one. First off based on the drive info in the control panel mine has a desktop-rated-drive rather than a NAS-rated one. Not a deal breaker for what I paid, and since the history of my particular used unit is unknown, this may or may not be typical of the new ones. I watched a review on Youtube from several years ago that prepared me for some of what to expect in configuring the device. I wasn't a fan of being directed by the instructions to download setup software, but after that I was able to get into the browser control panel setup which turned out somewhat similar to other NAS products. I configured mine to have a static IP address, setup my users and shares, browsed my local network by IP address and copied files to the shared folders. I haven't done anything fancy yet, just simple smb file sharing. File transfer speeds for my single drive unit were slow like I expected... in the 20 to 30 mb/s sustained write speed for a very large single file by a single user with no other drive/network activity. I'd recommend using this for light duty applications because I've had bad experiences with other devices being overwhelmed when multiple write streams are going on at the same time... everything always seems to get heavily fragmented and performance tanks... a single drive can easily be the bottleneck. If my short-term good experience turns into a long-term good experience I wouldn't hesitate to get another one of these (at the right price).

Buffalo LinkStation 210 I wanted a simple NAS to store/share music and video files. For the price this Buffalo LinkStation 210 seemed perfect. Plugged it in, punched in it's IP into Firefox, set up two folders as public shares and bam, done. When copying about 50 gig of music files to it, got an error, server not found. It is gone from network neighborhood. I could still access it's web setup, but not access it on the network. I could also "ping" it. When looking at the shares on the web setup everything looked fine, but it wasn't found by Windows Explorer in Network. After an hour or so of trying to figure out what's up, looking on the Web, downloading and reading the manual (not included, you have to get it from the web) and having no luck, for grins and giggles I redid the "Getting Started" wizard. This seemed to fix it. I finished copying the files to it and went to bed. However, the next day, it's gone from the network. Same issue. Reran the "Getting Started" wizard and it did not fix it. Turned it off and back on and it's back on the network... and about an hour later and it's gone again. Documentation says to download "NAS Navigator" to use the NAS. WTF mate? Why do I need a specific program to use a NAS? I just wanted a simple, inexpensive, low power, NAS to share files on a home network -- this one ain't it. I have a mixed home network consisting of Windows 98, 2000, XP, Win 7 (32 bit and 64 bit), Windows 10, GNU Linux, and Android computers/devices. I am not (and in some cases cannot) going to install a "NAS Navigator" program on each one to use a simple NAS.

Why I ordered this item: My external drives are all over the place and I wanted one spot to dump backups and photos without paying for cloud storage every month. Likes: * Setup was speedy. I plugged it into my router, ran the Navigator software, and it found the drive in like a minute. * It just sits on my network and shows up like a regular folder on my computer. No app, no login screen every time. * I set up folder permissions for my wife's laptop so she can't dig through my work files. Took maybe five minutes to configure. * The box itself is small. It fits behind my router and I basically forget it's there except for a tiny blue light. * I dragged over a folder of 4K video clips and it didn't choke or stutter, just chugged through them at a steady clip. No likes: * It's kind of loud when the drive spins up. Not obnoxious, but you'll hear it in a quiet room. * Only one drive bay, so theres no redundancy. If this drive dies, everything on it dies with it. * The app for managing it feels a little dated. The menus look like they're from ten years ago, but I could still find the settings I needed without digging around. Would I pay full price for this product: Yes Final thoughts: I dumped my phone photos and laptop backups onto it and now they all live in one folder instead of scattered across three thumb drives in a drawer.

✅ great quality ✅ very quiet ✅ set up was very easy ✅ nice features ✅Material is great ✅software is easy and compatible with my MOS

One of the first things I needed to do with this is to transfer my existing, full, 1TB WD MyCloud (5-6 years old) contents over to this. I routinely get full gigabit to the WD MyCloud despite its age, for reading and writing. (90MB/s or more). The model Buffalo I have is a single disk 4TB model. My WD MyCloud is a single disk 1TB, I figured they would basically be identical in performance, but with more space. Doesn't seem to be the case. Contemplating gutting the mycloud and hacking a larger drive in to it. The Buffalo is on the same network, same switch, same batch of ethernet cables - and it tops out at 30MB/s for all transfers. It has a gigabit ethernet port, is connected at gigabit link speed - but something, either the processor/RAM or disk inside severely bottlenecks transfer speed and it seems to hard limit at about 30MB/s. The transfer from NAS to NAS is up to over 24 hours at this point, and if I push anything else to the drive, I'll see both transfers halve their speed to about 15MB/s while running concurrently. I've benchmarked and tried files that are friendly for network transfers (single large zip files for example) and nothing more than 30MB/s. So, it works for storage, I now have lots of space for the random stuff that I need all over the network in my home (gigabit ethernet drops in every room). But for speed? It's severely lacking. Again, no idea what the bottleneck is, currently assuming it's a weakness of the 800 Mhz processor and 256 megs of RAM. Not the best choice if multiple users will be hitting it for anything more than basic document storage. I'm betting that streaming HD video from it (4k lossless) would probably choke it, or be limited to a single stream. User interface is nice. Setup was super easy. Adding an extra 2TB external hard disk was supported (via USB, but 2.0... blech) with no issues. Shame about the performance.

Exceeds expectations so far. All I really wanted was a basic network storage drive for my home office so I can have that magic "L:" drive or whatever accessible by all my machines on the network can map to for central location storage location for test data, business admin data, personal data, whatever. Being my first NAS I decided to go with this less-expensive model (without RAID) as a low-risk intro, and so far I'm very impressed. Bonus Features: This is probably why most other people buy this thing, but I like the idea of it doubling as a media server for the whole home wifi network also. NOTES for PC users - read this and it might save you a few minutes: -I noticed some negative comments about the setup, and it can be a little misleading. It actually came with a cd/dvd, and the setup instructions (which ironically you don't really end up needing) said you're supposed to run the driver setup from the dvd (as if everyone still has a dvd drive!). Not having dvd drive I downloaded the software from Buffalo support site, and it said "it couldn't find a device on the network that needs updating". To me this sounded like it couldn't find the drive, but after getting a little frustrated and researching it turns out the firmware was just already up-to-date. Logging into my router admin I could see the device just fine and get its IP, and the admin tool accessible by typing the ip into a browser is nice and intuitive (if you're remotely familiar with basic pc/networking concepts). It is there where I started looking around at features and discovered I can plug a usb storage device right into this thing AND easily set up backup jobs from the drive to the storage drive. Also cool I can actually see the USB drive from that network share also - pretty sweet and versatile looking. Overall I give it a 4.7 out of 5.0 so (-0.1 for slightly misleading instructions, and -0.2 because it actually had a dvd come with it! lol)

Works as it should. Simple Quick setup instructions work just fine on Win 10 and Win 11 computers. Easy to map it as network drive. Added bonus - made in Japan not in China.

LinkStation LS210DE19 – 2T byte single drive NAS I started using NAS well over 10 years ago. My first NAS (which is still in use is a Buffalo LS-GL284 250 Gbytes) and is around 90%+ full. So then I bought a second Buffalo NAS LS-XLFA8 2T byte unit a few years back but it has become intermittent with an overheating problem causing frequent shutdowns. The files I store on the NAS are not that critical BUT I still wouldn’t like to lose them. Consequently I decided to turf the XLFA8 2T unit and buy a new LinkStation LS210DE19 – 2T byte single drive NAS (and also because it was on sale). As a lot of other reviews state – setup is “not easy” but once set up the NAS does what it’s supposed to do. The instruction sheet that comes with the unit for set-up is less than useless and the CD…. well, it does make a good coffee coaster. I found the “Online Manual” for the NAS to be excellent but at 133 pages in length “ya gotta have patience”. I actually found it a good reference manual after I figured out how to set up the NAS. I set up the NAS using NAS NAVIGATOR2 to find it’s IP address on my LAN and then used the NAS management GUI to perform the setup. After about 6 hours the NAS was up and flying. The area’s I configured on the NAS were the: • Basics – Time, NAS Name, etc • Power management schedule • Local User Names and their privileges • Files folders, their shares and Access Restrictions • Network IP, etc • WebAccess to the NAS (I use an Android phone and the Buffalo WebAccess app) So as can be seen, there are a lot of area’s that I have not set up (RAID / BACKUPS / FTP /DLNA / BitTorrent) and a bunch of other stuff which do not use currently. I did use the NAS “USB Direct Copy” which worked well (good explanation in online manual) and NAS WebAccess on an Android phone was straight forward to set up. File transfer rates on my LAN are about 8-10 megabits /sec. For my type of activity this is OK but others would call this rate very slow. (File transfer rates via WebAccess were/are much faster!!) My final conclusions are that the NAS is a good unit, serves my purpose, is priced OK and I would recommend it to others. Now, if you are new to all of this IP stuff then – “get some help” to set it up.

muy bueno

El producto tardo mucho pero llego bien. Las instrucciones no venían en español ni en cualquier otro idioma porque eran inexistentes, hubo que buscarse la vida en internet. Después de un mes intentando configurar el dispositivo ME RINDO. La devolución me cuesta un pastón ya que hay que devolverlo a mi cargo por transporte internacional. Me he bajado instrucciones, muy malos tutoriales todos en ingles americano casi incomprensibles para mi. No digo que el producto sea malo puesto que me ha sido imposible configurarlo y usarlo, pero desde luego no es nada fácil de usar.

For what it is, perfect! A NAS with only one disk is not a complete solution, because there is no built-in resilience or recovery system. That did not matter, because I have 4 other 4TB drives linked to 4 PCs, and this is simply a central repository. The big advantage is that it is always on, 24x7, when the PC's are NOT. It is therefore available for update/interrogation from various mobile devices. A full NAS solution would have cost at least twice the price, and most of its functions would have been redundant. It came with a US power supply, but luckily a retired UK unit worked perfectly.

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