This NAS box from Buffalo provides a convenient storage for SOHO environments. It comes with four 7200 rpm, 250 GB SATA hard drives, which sum up to 1 TB of storage capacity. The box supports RAID levels 0,1,5 and 10. It has both Gigabit Ethernet and USB ports to connect it on a network as a NAS or directly to a PC as a DAS.






This TeraStation Live can also be used as a stor¬age server over the Inter¬net. For this, it has a built in FTP server for easy ex¬change of files. Plus. it even allows you to share your files and folders over the Internet. For this Buf¬falo has setup a separate website that allows peer to peer connectivity be¬tween different TeraStation Live boxes.

To test the NAS we transferred 100 GB of data between the NAS and a PC with a 400 GB. 7200 rpm HDD. Transfer to the PC took 1 hour and 27 mins. while the transfer back to the NAS took 1 hour 36 sees. FTP transfer however was much faster. and took only 57 mins. We also ran NetBench and got a maximum throughput of 33 MBps with RAID O. which is pretty average as compared to the cheaper TeraStation Pro II. The latter also has a higher transfer rate.


Key Specs:
RAID 0/1/5/10,
7200 rpm,
power backup,
hot swappable drives,
web-based file sharing,
FTP server.