 Works great |
| Review Date: September 12, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Marc, Santa Fe, NM |
| I had an "expert" hook it up so I can't say how easy/difficult that was, but once it was up and running, it works like a dream. All I have to do is plug it into my computer -- I back up once a month -- and away it goes backing up what has been added and changed. I don't have to do anything except turn it on and off. The rest is automatic. |
Great External Hard Drive
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| Review Date: April 30, 2009 |
| Reviewer: K. Chung, Orlando,FL |
| This hard drive is great. It is quiet and transfers and reads files without a problem. |
Excellent external HD
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| Review Date: May 28, 2009 |
| Reviewer: cyber, Pennsylvania |
Works great...copied everything to it for a big backup of my computer and all my portable HDs....all my music, videos, photos.
I'll never fill it up. |
no complaints
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| Review Date: February 6, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. Perilstein, philadelphia, PA USA |
| I bought the buffalo 1TB external hard drive about a month ago and it has been working great. 1TB is more than enough space for my expansive movie collection and its firewire capabilities certainly speed up the transfer time. It was incredibly easy to set up: I literally took it out of its box and connected it to my macbook and it instantly appeared. The same thing happened when I attached it to my old desktop PC. I expected a little more difficulty, but have been pleasantly surprised. I would absolutely recommend this product. The only aspect that I cannot comment on is its durability, being that I have only owned it a short while. |
Buffalo makes quality products
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| Review Date: June 24, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Chris Hart, USA |
I'm a computer consultant and I have purchased several of these Buffalo DriveStation external drives with FireWire for both myself and clients (in both 500gb and 1tb capacities). They work excellent, have fine speed and the noise level is just fine.
My only criticism is that the enclosure could use more ventilation. (To compensate, I keep a quiet table fan on slow setting blowing on my external drives all the time to stop them from running hot.)
Note that this drive enclosure has one firewire port that is the typical 6 pin, while the other is 4 pin (such as you typically see on DV cameras). This isn't a problem, since Buffalo includes a 4 pin to 6 pin cable. (Just don't lose that cable, however, or you'll have to seek out another.)
While the drive is is capable of operating in a vertical orientation (and is shown that way in the marketing materials), I am uneasy about hard drives sitting vertically. I believe it's inviting a head crash. One bump from someone's hand or a bump into the desk, or the tug of a cable and the drive goes flopping on its side while spinning inside at 7200rpm. This is especially true with this Buffalo design that is very tall. So, I always keep my drives horizontal.
This drive uses an external 12v DC wall wart transformer like so many other external drives. But it's worth noting that the diameter of the power input jack on this buffalo unit is larger than the drives from Maxtor, seagate and WD. I can't use the transformers from those brands on the buffalo, nor vice versa. Not a big deal, as long as the buffalo unit doesn't die. (If it does, you'll have to cut the cord and solder the buffalo power tip onto the cord of the replacement transformer.)
As with 99% of the drives on the market, this one comes formatted for Windows NTFS and Mac users should immediately reformat in Disk Utility to MacOS Extended format before using. (Unless you want to use it to move files between a Mac and a windows machine. In which case you'll still have to reformat it, but you'll need to choose FAT32 format. Unless you install an NTFS software package on your Mac, like the one from Paragon.)
This buffalo drive has a feature that not found on many other drives: a power switch with On, Off, Auto positions. Auto only spins up the disk when the computer system is on and spins it down when the computer is shut down. While this is usually happens anyways with most drives connected to a host computer, some do keep spinning no matter what (although that's becoming less common with the focus on energy savings in hard drives). The auto mode assures that your Buffalo drive will be spared wear and tear when it's not being used.
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Easy to use reliable and and strong
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| Review Date: March 5, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Eduardo, Minnesota |
This HD is secure under Windows environment. You can have it connected to your wireless router in a second and all your folders and sub folders will be secured and protected.
100% recommend! |
So far, so good!
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| Review Date: April 24, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Patrick F. Goddard, Burbank, CA |
| Great drive so far, no problems. Reformatted for Mac OS X with no problems. Drive is also very quiet. I'm impressed! |
Buffalo 1TB Ext. HD
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| Review Date: July 6, 2009 |
| Reviewer: R. M. NBCC, VT |
| It does what it says it will do. And that is huge today with the way ads are exaggerated and plain false. Really good backup device, you ought to have one, 'cause you know what happens to computers, and then all is lost. 4 stars because nothing's perfect. |
Easy to Use Effective Storage
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| Review Date: January 18, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Amanda Varone, Downingtown, PA, USA |
| Easy to use effective storage. No matter what OS you utilize, this device stores necessary info with ease under all plug and play activities. |
Unlike the previous product lines, this one cannot be easily opened
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| Review Date: July 9, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Paul C. Huang, Arcadia, CA |
Those who are brave enough to use a screw driver should not choose this one.
We external-drive users need to be able to remove the drive if USB/FW connections/controllers fail, so we have other options to remove the drive for data retrieval (so your own data is not out there on the loose) and reuse the case. Unlike the predecessors which had aluminum cases, this unit cannot be easily opened. I have not x-rayed it or attempted to open it, but looks like this thing was assembled with plastic clips and is not designed to be reusable.
Other than that, Buffalo has generally made fine products.
Not so fast. I initially tested this drive and it sounded a bit funny. I didn't think twice about it and put it away. It does not spin up now--after sitting there for two months.
I have noticed that many of the current Buffalos use Samsung drives. I have noticed that the Samsung drives have a slightly higher than usual DOA rate. |
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