Network Media Player With Storage

Buffalo LinkStation Live LS-CHL Network Hard Drive LS-CH500L Network Attached Storage

Size: 500 GB Brand: Buffalo Technology Model: LS-CH500L Platform: Windows 2003 Server Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 6.14" h x 1.77" w x 6.89" l, 2.43 pounds CPU: AMD Athlon 1 GHz Memory: 2MB DRAM Hard Disk: 500GB Graphics: This is the description of the PC Graphics 256MB Processors: 1 Native resolution: 640x480 Display size: 669.2913385827 LinkStation Live; Setup CD-ROM; Quick Setup Guides; Ethernet Cable; Power Cord; Warranty Statement Share storage and multimedia collections effortlessly-streams Audio, Pictures and Video to Gaming Consoles; Phones Share a printer or add a DriveStation for increased capacity

Most helpful customer reviews 38 of 39 people found the following review helpful. Great product By Sam Smith 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. 57 of 63 people found the following review helpful. Almost the promises By Gerd Sousa The product is almost everything I was expecting based on the description. One important piece that is not clear on the specs is that the external USB disk MUST be formatted at XFS in order to the users be able to read/write on it. Any legacy USB disk you might have is probably already formatted on NTFS or FAT32. After you install it on the Linkstation USB port you can read but not write on it. There are 2 major impacts on it: First, you need to spend a lot of time to backup the original content of the Linkstation unit, format it on XFS and spend a lot of time again doing the copy of the data back to it...and you cannot use the unit to do it by itself. You must do the copy from a networked PC causing an intense and unnecessary traffic. Took to me 2 full days to do this operation in a 300GB disk. Second: After the format you cannot remove the USB disk and read in other machine with Vista or XP on it. Only Linux/Unix OS would be able to read data from there. One small pitfall happen during the setup, a bug that Bufallo claims impossible to reproduce, so they cannot fix but it is related by dozens of users in their FAQ blog, has locked my admin password. I couldn't enter the admin username and of course couldn;t change anything in the configuration. Only after few days I was able to find out a solution doing a "refresh" on the firmaware. Their blog has the step-by-step for it. I hope the same thing does not happen again. Besides that, the wake-up function is working fine (but you should use their NAS Navigator application on each client to make the unit awake after a stand-by). The driver is fast enough to allow DVD streaming from a DVD movie saved on the unit and played on my notebook. Also, the Media Server capabilities works fine and any iTunes in the network can create a library based on it. I might end up using the USB port as a backup of the sensitive data in the Linkstation and not as an extended storage unit. (this is the company recommendation anyway) 22 of 22 people found the following review helpful. Excellent multi-purpose NAS By Mark Bought one for home and found out it does such an excellent job, I bought one for my small office as well. For home, i needed a NAS to store media on an always on device to stream to PS3 and XBox 360. This Buffalo device does this very well, with hardly any set-up at all on these two DLNA devices. Just enable 'Media Server' from the very easy to use browser based admin utility and your set. Other great features: web access is a very simple page to access (buffalonas.com), combined with comprehensive, but easy to use user management. Also the Bittorrent feature is so easy and so convenient, you'll use it even if you dont know at the moment what this does. It works while the computer is off - obviously, and works quietly - actually silently, because this device is so quiet even while accessing files. Not 5 stars because: silly really - on PS3, Photos are selected