Buffalo Linkstation question

  • Thread starter Thread starter MikeB
  • Start date Start date
M

MikeB

Any Buffalo Linkstation owners out there? I'm thinking of buying one of
these but I cannot seem to find a definitive answer to whether the hard
disk spins down after a period of inactivity. I know these things come
with the ability to specify a 'sleep' period but thats just a start and
stop time of day - not what I'm asking about.

Mike
 
Any Buffalo Linkstation owners out there? I'm thinking of buying one of
these but I cannot seem to find a definitive answer to whether the hard
disk spins down after a period of inactivity. I know these things come
with the ability to specify a 'sleep' period but thats just a start and
stop time of day - not what I'm asking about.
Click to expand...

Does it matter?
 
MikeB said:
Any Buffalo Linkstation owners out there? I'm thinking of buying one of
these but I cannot seem to find a definitive answer to whether the hard
disk spins down after a period of inactivity. I know these things come
with the ability to specify a 'sleep' period but thats just a start and
stop time of day - not what I'm asking about.
Click to expand...

Have you tried emailing Buffalo Tech? A few years ago, I got a prompt,
personalized response from their tech support staff on a question about
a wireless product. YMMV.
 
Neill said:
Have you tried emailing Buffalo Tech? A few years ago, I got a prompt,
personalized response from their tech support staff on a question about
a wireless product. YMMV.
Click to expand...
Yes I did - about two weeks ago, no reply. I have a fairly low
expectation of getting prompt replies back from companies I email via
their web sites - based on experience!
 
Any Buffalo Linkstation owners out there? I'm thinking of buying one
of
Yes I did - about two weeks ago, no reply. I have a fairly low
expectation of getting prompt replies back from companies I email via
their web sites - based on experience!
Click to expand...

Can you find a store selling those, and return a product if not satisfied
with?
 
Any Buffalo Linkstation owners out there? I'm thinking of buying one of
these but I cannot seem to find a definitive answer to whether the hard
disk spins down after a period of inactivity. I know these things come
with the ability to specify a 'sleep' period but thats just a start and
stop time of day - not what I'm asking about.

Mike
Click to expand...


For what it's worth Mike. The LinkStation will spin down after a
certain time. The fan will stay running though. The exact amount I
don't have off the top of my head. I've had mine 2 months now and I
haven't had much luck in terms of reliability and speed. When I first
got the thing my upload and download speeds were 6500-8000kB/s. Well I
put the unit in a data center to backup game files off a few of my
game servers. This was hooked up to a Gigabit Dell Switch and Gigabit
nic adapters in a few of the servers. 2 weeks later the unit was slow
as heck. It took 27 hours to backup 13 gigs worth of files. I brought
the unit home and noticed when the transfer would start it would be a
high as 8000kB/s, then it would drop off and stay at 75-300kB/s.

Being I wanted to keep the unit I redid the firmware after trying to
get hold of Buffalo tech email and phone and having no reply or
waiting too long on hold. So far it has been better. But my transfers
to the LS are 4000kB/s at best now. While downloads off the unit are
aproximately 7500kB/s. In all honesty I have been disappointed. A 4
meg a second transfer rate is poor in my book. Since I don't have any
problem tranferring at almost 10 meg a second on my 100mbps home
network between computers. Why this thing is so slow, nobody seems to
know. Also, the web interface also tends to take as long as a minute
to update itself. Changes take a long time to show in the browser.
Here's a few links to help you keep up on the Linkstation. I most
likely will keep it for my backups here at the house and go with a 1U
NAS server instead for my server backups.
I bought a HD-HG250LAN.

http://linkstationwiki.org/

http://www.nabble.com/Buffalo-LinkStation-f14391.html

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/buffalo


Sorry so long.
Paul
 
Back
Top