I bought a TS2 for my church network. No issue with failures after about 18 months. I have it configured with two 500GB drives with RAID 1. Easy to setup and use, but it's s-l-o-w, like reading/writing to a USB device.
Roger Wright ___ On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Devin Meade <devin.me...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are considering this for a NAS device. I see some rave reviews > here on this newsgroup and on Amazon. I also see some horrific tech > support stories on Amazon reviews. But can you really trust Amazon > reviews? I also see a range of bad / good reviews on cnet.com (most > from prior to 2008, but one from 4 mos ago). The majority of the > negative reviews are for replacement hard drives, that ought to be > easy-peasy-lemon-squeazy to fix. Hmmkay. Anyway I see that they have > new firmware which fixes a multitude of problems. I see good reviews > for the most part for the last year or so - maybe they have their > ducks lined up now. > > Has anyone used one of these AND had a disk failure that was resolved > like it should be? > > > http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews/30790-the-terastation-reborn-buffalo-terastation-iii-reviewed > I see they are using SATA 3. That was too hard to find out. > > http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/index.php?option=com_nas&Itemid=&chart=12 > Shows 55MB / sec write performance - on a 2 drive setup. No RAID5 > numbers??? > > Does anyone have a RAID5 setup and have write performance numbers? We > are considering the 4 drive array using 2TB drives (giving us 6TB > usable). > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
