Comments on: Bonus: Buffalo Terastation hacking

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:35:08 +0000

I setup a terstation pro (2TB version) to use for nightly backups of a couple file servers in my lab. It is really designed for Windows only without the hacked firmware. The samba server on it is set up to be case-insencitive, but case-preserving. Installing the hacked firmware from http://terastation.org/wiki/TeraStationPro and using it as an NFS server fixed this.

By: dakota

dakota — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:45:18 +0000

What’s the computer in the picture?
(I have one that looks like it. Mine’s a Gateway Select 1200CS with an AMD Athlon, 128 MB of RAM, and it’s running XP Pro.)

By: srod

srod — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:05:35 +0000

nice

By: KC

KC — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:33:26 +0000

Cheaper than setting up another blade cluster.....
I'LL TAKE 5!

They'll get my vote when they speed up those read/write times. Why would you put gigabit ethernet on it when it can't even hit 100Mb?

By: orvtech

orvtech — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:17:00 +0000

@ michael,

sure, ‘dano’ said it before “…a simple plug and play device…”

the end user or the regular user would not know where to begin or how to build and setup a box with 1TB of capacity (plus raid, nfs, ftp, quotas, etc…).

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:02:55 +0000

But the thing is that it may likes the other peoples too. Any guess why??

By: Dano

Dano — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:20:28 +0000

Although the terastation may “suck” when considering it for business purposes I think it’s a decent package for general storage. Good place to store online backups, mp3′s, movies, etc. Of course many of us could throw one together for about the same price, but if you don’t have the parts sitting around a simple plug and play device can be nice… As long as you can hack some extra features!

By: xFred

xFred — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:08:50 +0000

The terra stations suck....if you really want a piece of hardware, look into the linkstation pro. It's made by the same company, but quicker - and sata.

Also, look at the kuro box. New Kuro Box PRO is coming soon!

http://www.linkstationwiki.net
http://www.kurobox.com

With the linkstation pro, you also get a serial port. WITHOUT REMOVING THE CASE! The newer units are looking sweet.
Forget the terrastation - too slow. If you want a 1TB NAS, get a PC w/ hardware RAID card. Otherwise, this thing can barely break 10mb/s reads/writes.

By: orvtech

orvtech — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:33:49 +0000

Dude, thats a +$600 toy, i will stick with my nslu2 ($79) and my external USB HDD ($80)

By: int8088

int8088 — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:46:50 +0000

master try http://www.freenas.org/ bsd based file server

By: mastershake916

mastershake916 — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:16:48 +0000

I’d be interested in a program for a computer that allowed it to do this type of thing.

By: billybob

billybob — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:20:46 +0000

megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, kilobyte, heck it’s all the same. (not) Don’t mention confusing network line speed. kilobits/sec megabits/sec etc…

By: andy

andy — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:52:47 +0000

I hope you meant to say that it’s a 1Tbyte nas. If you need 1Gbyte that bad, I’ll give you a free thumb drive. ;P