Customer Reviews

BUFFALO TECHNOLOGY HD-H120LAN LinkStation Network Storage Center

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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.

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.

I bought both a 160 GB and a 120 GB Linkstation. Product manual was a bit too brief, but after a few quick calls to Buffalo customer support I had the 120 up and running in no time (Customer service support was fabulous - especially after hours). Unfortunately, the 160 had some type of defect. Customer support walked me through a firmware upgrade and other tweaks - but we never got the drive to a point where it was usable, so I had to return it.

Also, the 120 drive was significantly quiter than the 160 drive. I don't know if this was just the luck of the draw, or if the larger drive always makes more noise. The difference was so significant that I've actually decided not to buy another 160 version.

All in all, I was very impressed with Buffalo's customer support - and I love what the Linkstation does for my home network (which is a mix of Mac and PC platforms). I suspect the defective 160 drive I recieved was an exception, but I love the 120 GB drive.

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!

This small hard drive is just like a small server, great for share files in a home network.