Buffalo Technology TeraStation Pro™ II (TS-H1.0TGL/R5) 250 GB Network Storage Server

Pros: None

Cons: Difficult to configure, unreliable, RAID does not work, poor customer service

The Bottom Line: Stay away from Buffalo NAS - it does not work, it fails, it does not recover, and their customer service is the worst.

Review: This NAS unit was the worst nightmare product I have had to deal with in over 20 years of work in this industry. To start off with, it was not easy to configure into our network. It took hours to make it work within a simple small business network...

Pros: Ok if you are working only in English.

Cons: Do not consider purchasing this NAS if you think outside of English. Showstoper.

Review: Does not support asian characters. Filenames written in Japanese are not fully supported. The error is odd in that most Japanese characters work fine, but filenames including specific characters can not be copied onto the NAS. It looks like a very...

Pros: Cheap

Cons: failure after 15mos, RAID5 stripe NG, all data lost, bad customer support, difficult to configure

Review: Had TS Pro with Raid 5 configured - which was advertised to protect my data in case of a single drive failure. After 15mos running, drive #2 fails - a WD 500gb drive. I followed instructions for drive replacement to the letter, and after it rebooted...