Buffalo 500GB NAS w/gb ethernet $249 AR at frys.

[MX-5 Dave]

They have the buffalo 500gb nas drive with gigabit ethernet connection for $269 with a $20 mail in rebate. The 320GB unit costs more than this. The usual price for the 500GB model is 349 there,

here's a link to it at the egg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822165021

I have min hooked up and its working great :)

[DragonNOA1]

Read the "Cons" on the NewEgg site before buying. No NTFS or AD integration and other little problems about speed and accessibility.

I just bought a 500GB drive for 150 shipped and put it in an old computer. Saved money and has more features than this. To each his own tho.

[MX-5 Dave]

Read the "Cons" on the NewEgg site before buying. No NTFS or AD integration and other little problems about speed and accessibility.

I just bought a 500GB drive for 150 shipped and put it in an old computer. Saved money and has more features than this. To each his own tho.

True, but I am running one, and as a network storage drive, it is dead on 100% functional. 100% as fast as a full on PC with gigabit ethernet, and for what it is intended for (a mapped network drive) it works flawlessly. You have to remember that half the negative reviews on newegg come from people who want their cake and to eat it too, and they buy products expecting it to do more than what it is designed to do, so when the $350 product they buy, doesnt do the job of the $600 product they need, they bitch about it in the review. Also, a lot of people just dont know what they are doing, and give bad reviews because the product didnt live up to their expectations, while the entire reason it didnt, was because they didnt know how to set it up. So take those reviews with a grain of salt. They are a great place to start, but you have to look at the overall picture before you damn something to the "junk" class:cool:

If you want 500gb of storage space on your network, with a gig ethernet connection, there is zero problems with this, and its cheaper than building a file server with 500gb storage space.


Of course if you have a comp to spare, obviously a bare 500gb drive will be cheaper, but not everyone has an entire machine sitting around to file serv.


Now the netgear NAS thing on the other hand lol...

[TexasAg05]

True, but I am running one, and as a network storage drive, it is dead on 100% functional. 100% as fast as a full on PC with gigabit ethernet, and for what it is intended for (a mapped network drive) it works flawlessly.

You have the Buffalo NAS? Are you running it NTFS? I'm looking for a one-drive NAS for GHOSTing my desktop and my wife's laptop...and NEED a NAS that will do more than 4GB files;)

[JBark]

You have the Buffalo NAS? Are you running it NTFS? I'm looking for a one-drive NAS for GHOSTing my desktop and my wife's laptop...and NEED a NAS that will do more than 4GB files;)

I don't own one myself, but looking at the manual, it seems this NAS is probably running some sort of Linux, since it says internal drives must be formatted using XFS. If that's true, then file sizes shouldn't be an issue.

It also looks like you can format drives hooked up to the USB ports as XFS, EXT3, of FAT32. Use XFS or EXT3, and file sizes won't be a problem either.

[Atherton213]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822154057

lacie 500gb $177

reveiws kinda suck... but its 70 cheaper

ive got a lacie external cd burner (got it a while ago cause my laptop didnt have usb2;0 but did have firewire) and it works great