I've had a II for a long time and it's been rock solid. Upgraded the drives a while back to 1TB, just took a while to do the initial config. I have it on a switched Gig network with jumbo frames and no it's not the fastest. But with a single gig interface you can't expect it to me SAN fast. It is extremely fast compared to our netgear readynas NV+. I turned on NFS the other day and pointed my ESX server at it. Worked very well but again it was extremely slow.
-----Original Message----- From: Devin Meade [mailto:devin.me...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Buffalo TeraStation III 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-reb orn-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/> ~
