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Buffalo LinkStation Live 500GB Shared Network Storage HS-DH500GL | 
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| Brand: Buffalo
Category: CE
Buy New: £99.98
New (11) from £99.98
Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 1039
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.4
Dimensions (in): 19.7 x 19.7 x 19.7
MPN: HS-DH500GL-1
Model: HS-DH500GL-1
UPC: 680807014389
EAN: 0680807014389
ASIN: B000N9508K
Release Date: February 5, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | General: Device Type - NAS server / Total Storage Capacity - 500 GB -- Storage Controller: Type - Serial ATA - integrated / Controller Interface Type - Serial ATA-150 / Supported Devices - Hard drive | | • | Networking: Type - Network adapter - integrated / Data Link Protocol - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet / Network / Transport Protocol - TCP/IP, NTP, FTP / Remote Management Protocol - HTTP / Compliant Standards - IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab | | • | Expansion / Connectivity: Interfaces - 2 x Hi-Speed USB - 4 PIN USB Type A 1 x Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T - RJ-45 | | • | Power: Power Device - Power supply - internal / Power Consumption Operational - 21 Watts | | • | Software / System Requirements: OS Required - Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Linux, Apple Mac OS 8.6 or later, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 31 more reviews...
 Disappointing - could have been so good.......... November 17, 2008
J. Palmer (Surrey)
Unfortunately this was a very disappointing purchase. On the plus side it is well made, looks good and was a doddle to connect physically, but on the minus side it never actually worked as it should have. The software was difficult to install - I was left wondering if it had just ground to a halt or had completed and not told me. Several attempts at installing the software later and I still had a drive I was unable to use properly. I say properly as I could write data to it, but could not read/access data from it, including user manuals and other preloaded items that I wanted to view. I will admit that I didn't actually speak to Buffalo themselves - they may have had a simple fix to my problem, but I was working on the basis that it should have literally worked straight from the box - and it didn't.
If you decide to buy one I wish you luck and hope this was just my bad experience or inexperience more like! Am waiting for my refund. I won't be looking for an alternative item either - regularly backing up to DVD should suffice (you just need to remember to do it!)
No, do pay attention to the other reviews - this product still isn't great November 14, 2008
Brad Moffat
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A bit disappointed with this. I bought it primarily as a media server for my PS3. I'm an iPod owner and all my music is in m4a (AAC) format and I've successfully been sharing it off the PC using TVersity (Buffalo take note - this is an excellent piece of software. It works and it's free). But I quite fancied the idea of sharing my media without the need to have the PC on all the time. The other benefits like having another disk to use for backups, a print server, an FTP server, web access were all big plus points. I've just spent an entire afternoon battling with the Buffalo LinkStation and it just fails completely as a media server. It does serve some folders...not all...merely some. And not all the time either...just some of the time. It's incredibly slow too. It doesn't show the entire list of folders on the PS3 immediately, that might take a while. Oh, and it doesn't seem to serve my m4a files either, only MP3s. This is a major limitation for me and I'm now considering returning this somewhat lack-lustre product. It's the "latest and greatest" firmware, version 2.10, on it too. After reading a thread on the Buffalo forums it appears that I'm not the only one having problems. A new firmware was promised back in September but here we are in November and there still hasn't been an update.
I also wanted to use the FTP server as this would be pretty useful for retrieving files remotely. The FTP server is very, very basic. You can't even set the root folder for each user. When a user logs in they are immediately in the root of the drive and can see the system folders that you definitely wouldn't want anyone to see. It works but it needs to be better.
So, to sum up, it's an OK product. The disk sharing works (albeit slowly), the print server works, the FTP access works, (I haven't tried the web access yet). It's all ok but definitely not great. I would expect this product to have the same functionality of software that's freely available but it falls short by a long way. If you were planning on buying this as a media server for your DLNA client (PS3, XBox 360, SoundBridge, etc) then I would advise you to think very carefully. The physical build quality of the product is good but ultimately the product is let down by mediocre software. Buffalo need to address this before I would give this product a higher rating.
** UPDATE **
I've returned this product to Amazon for a refund. I emailed Buffalo technical support to try and find out about fixes for the problems I was experiencing and I didn't even get a reply. This is simply unacceptable. It's an average product hampered by less than average firmware and abysmal tech support. I'm downgrading my review from 3 stars to 2 stars. Furthermore, I've replaced the LinkStation with a Synology DiskStation 107+ and so far it's excellent and everything the Buffalo should have been.
 Waste of time.... November 11, 2008
Peter Westwood
Basic set up of this unit was simple, but I didn't have time to test the more advanced features as it failed within 48 hours of being turned on!
Error light and continuous beeping, horrible clicking noise, no way to recover (and I tried!).
Have sent it back to Amazon for a refund.
Prompt and good customer service from Amazon, but a dissapointing product.
Two succesive failed units - clearly still issues with the LS Live. October 23, 2008
Craig McLean (London, UK)
After reading recent positive reviews, which seemed to say that all the problems with the Buffalo LinkStation Live were a thing of the past, I went ahead with it. This seems to have been a mistake, and I've given up on Buffalo after having two units die on me in exactly the same manner within the first couple of weeks. These were errors for which I could find no explanation in the manual.
To Amazon's credit both the first replacement, and the eventual refund, were fast and painless.
good looking but useless. October 21, 2008
d (london)
So, decided to buy one based on the more recent reviews.Obviously I got the old batch. First one was in emergency mode, so thats gone back. my second one was cool till i put stuff on it, and then it decided to die, and on reboot decided to beep a lot and do nothing.so that goes back to. but i wont buy another, in the short time it did work i found it slow, clunky and i dont think id trust it with data. shame, it looks nice but just doesnt perform.
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