Buffalo LinkStation Quad Review

This is our second brand review in search for a better network attached storage. Grabtechdude.net will be trying to grab the sense of its features and its functions if it will fit for home based business or in a corporate environment.

Our second brand is quite known to me and I have been using one of their product since 2010. I find its performance interesting enough but of course it's a different product. This time will be trying their LinkStation which is also inline with the Network Attached Storage which provides secure and reliable centralized storage and backups for home and business needs.

So here's a short information about the Buffalo brand. The company is based in Austin, Texas, USA and perhaps that's why they named the company Buffalo, just a wild guess anyway. According to them “Buffalo Technology (USA) is a global leader in design, development and manufacturing of network and direct attached storage and wired and wireless networking solutions. With offices worldwide and deeply rooted industry alliances, Buffalo weaves innovation, reliability, practicality and performance into each piece of hardware and supporting software we manufacture and ship. Our goal is to provide top of the line storage and networking products that take our customers to the next level at a price they can afford.”

Just like I mentioned earlier Buffalo has been around for quite some time and their LinkStation Quad has been quite a handful to many home and office network system already. But this specific model/product caused me a little bit of confusion by just looking at it because there's another model that looks exactly the same with the one I'm reviewing. So what's the difference with it? Well the other model don't have a letter V mark in front while the present version has one. Its brand model is LS-QVL/E-AP.

Product Features and Capability
So here's what Buffalo LinkStation Quad has to offer for their customers.

Hardware features a 1.6GHz processor with a quicker DDR3 memory and higher capacity to store data with its four bays that can accommodate 4TB. Of course hard disk drives are each sold separately. One of its features also is the quick swap drives. It has a transfer bit rate of 72MB/s and supports RAID MODES OF 0/1/5/10. It also has an option to schedule backups from one LinkStation to another and with its two integrated USB 2.0 ports you can also store in an external hard disk. This USB ports can be found one at front and one at the back. Other than the USB ports it also has the Gigabit Ethernet jack and a power port for its bundled AC adaptor.

When it comes to data security and management, the Linkstation has a built-in DLNA/UPnP media server, Logitech Squeezebox support, a built-in BitTorrent client, an iTunes server, an FTP server and remote access via a web browser plus a WebAccess app for smartphone and tablet users. Thus, making data acquisition and storage more secure and accessible.

Design
If you're talking of a very interesting design, well, don't expect very much.  Though the black color adds up to the beauty of the design  This time it may hit up a little squary and edgy.  The size of the unit is 149mmm x 233mm x 154mm box type without the curvy designs with a large fan for cooling purposes. Straight to the point but the quality of service is great.

Unit Price and Where to Buy
You can always refer and search for it online but locally I'm not yet sure of the price of this specific model but basing on what I've seen on pcworx.ph if it increase by Php2,000.00 then perhaps the price would go between Php14,000.00 to Php15,000.00. This is not the accurate price so better always ask for the updated ones. Not really sure if PC Gilmore and PC Express has something like this also. So for now price comparison is not achieve because there are store that doesn't have this network attached storage device. Perhaps I'll update this once I have roan the pc and accessories hubs.