Buffalo Linkstation Mini silent NAS

Audiophiliac · Post by **Audiophiliac** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:44 pm

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/net ... tion-mini/

Looks like a cool little box. RAID 1 or RAID 0....500GB or 1TB. Fanless and uses 2.5" drives for low power use. 10W I think is what they say. Only 1 year warranty....I wish they would sell just the box, and you could put your own drives in it. The drives should have a 3-5 year warranty...I wonder if the drive manufacturer would honor any warranty other than the one through Buffalo..

Anyway. Interesting product. I am thinking of getting one to use as a backup and media storage.

tehcrazybob · Post by **tehcrazybob** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:15 pm

I've toyed with the idea of building a server running a big stack of laptop hard drives. In the end, though, I come up against two issues: First, the price per gigabyte is ridiculous when you're looking at a large amount of storage. Second, the noise of modern 5400-rpm desktop drives is almost as good as laptop drives, and a server is likely to be further away from you than a desktop computer anyway.

The power consumption is nice, but if you want more than 500 GB, it takes twice as many 2.5" drives as 3.5" drives, which I suspect evens the power out.

Audiophiliac · Post by **Audiophiliac** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:28 pm

I see your points. I should add that I am hoping to find some way to run a DC++ client from the NAS so I dont have to leave my PC on 24/7. I know I could do this with a larger DIY 3.5" based NAS system, but this one just has that cool factor.

m^2 · Post by **m^2** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:33 am

Also, laptop hard drives have high bit error ratio. 10 times bigger than consumer 3.5" HDDs, 100 times bigger than enterprise drives.
EDITED.

Moogles · Post by **Moogles** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:11 am

Can anyone confirm or deny what m^2 just said? I've never heard this before.

m^2 · Post by **m^2** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 12:48 am

Moogles wrote:Can anyone confirm or deny what m^2 just said? I've never heard this before.

Go into Seagate / Samsung / Hitachi / WD site and download specifications of a laptop drive, a consumer HDD and an enterprise SAS drive.
Compare BER (can also be called nonrecoverable error rate or alike).
You'll find that laptop drives have 10^-14.
Consumer HDDs: 10^-15 (sometimes 10^-14 too).
SAS ones: 10^-16.

clamothe · Post by **clamothe** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:03 pm

I looked into this one, but I'd like more flexibility over the software and hardware than a pre-built solution like this gives me.

Even with an OEM hard drive, I have at least a 3 year warrenty, but with the Belkin I only have a 1 year.