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Great product
I ordered this item from another website, and so I avoided any issues that the previous reviewer experienced. That aside, I have now had this product for 2 weeks and it has been working great. The setup took a couple tries to locate the drive, but since that minor bump in the road it has worked very smoothly and exactly as advertised. Hooking up my current external USB drive was very easy as well. Upload/download speeds are very fast. Webaccess works great as well. My only complaint is that when in Auto power mode and the drive is powered down due to inactivity (as it should), you cannot initiate the hard drive again from Webaccess. It can only be turned back on from the home network. Thus, if you want to use Webaccess occasionally, the drive must be ON all the time and wasting energy. A minor gripe in the grand scheme of things though.

Great Product--- lots of options.
Superb product. This machine will become your storage center in the house. I have put my music, videos, and pictures on it. Not only do you get 1TB, but you get a dependable server. Underneath, it is running a linux kernel that has a lot of services. There is a PnP (DLNA) server works with the xbox 360 great. The DLNA Server is really running the Twonky Media Server [...]. There is an FTP Server, Memeo Backup Server. There is a bittorrent client. The web access works great too-- You can upload files anywhere in the world. You need to go to [...] for it to work. The admin interface works good. Although I would of liked a faster processor on this, it does do the job. The gige speed gives me a write of about 16MB/s using jumbo packets. It works with XP and Vista 32/64. I'm using firmware 1.02.
You can also expand the storage adding a USB drive. I may add another TB as I have almost maxed out this 1TB.

Could be better...
I purchased this product primarily as a back-up server for another NAS device (not made by Buffalo Tech). My primary NAS has only 500GB. I thought the 1TB Linkstation could eventually replace the primary NAS device. So far, I am not convinced.

By comparison, the Linkstation was not as easy to set up; setting shares with restricted access somewhat confusing. I am still not able to set up web access to the admin page, which makes adding users when away from home not possible. It is for this reason, I am still hanging on to my primary NAS device. The NAS Navigator desktop SW is not at all stable/reliable -- it is not able to see the NAS drive half of the time even when the drive is accessible via Windows Explorer. I share the same complaint that you can't 'wake up' the Linkstation remotely in auto power saving mode.

The worst of part of my experience so far (after 2 months) was the drive failed after 2 weeks. It was replaced by Buffalo under warranty. I have to give some credit to the helpdesk folks for making the exchange process pretty painless.

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