Buffalo Tech LINKSTATION NTWK-STORAGE CTR - 120GB ( HD-H120LAN )

Rating:
Summary: Excellent storage center plus
Review: I bought this product after Thanksgiving Day. (...) What a great deal! This product has so many features such as built-in FTP server, authorization and group access, file sharing, 2 USB ports for printer or hard drive, sleep mode, and etc. I really enjoy this product.

Rating:
Summary: Great idea, bad implementation
Review: This Network Attached Storage device looks like a great idea, and it mostly does what it advertises. It does make 120GB of storage available over your network and is reasonably priced.

There are some significant flaws. First, the user interface does not allow you to give someone read only access to a particular share. Buffalo could fix this simply by changing the firmware, and it really is a pretty significant oversight. The whole point of having network attached storage is to allow multiple users on a network to have different access levels to data.

Also, the unit is sealed and thus does not allow the user to change the hard drive.

There are other options out there. The Linksys NSLU2 will allow you to hook up USB drives to a network and does allow read only user level access. In additionl, Linksys also has the EFG120 which does the same thing, but has internal IDE hard drives which are user replaceable.

Rating:
Summary: outstanding!
Review: this unit is sooo easy to setup, just plug it into your router and you can see it immediately! software is foolproof, unit is fast and reliable. this unit is awesome, no complaints at all!