If the buffalo nas device is located in city a, and my computer in located in city b, is there an easy way to do a file backup? seems not with wd.
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One answer said you should get one with good consumer reviews. Forget it. Get one with a good sturdy case and a built-in fan. Multiple RAID drives as well. Too expensive? Right. Forget NAS and get a better solution.
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Do not buy this device or you will have to replace it in a year or a year and a half. Read the reviews. I had one and lost everything I had on it. Get something that had good consumer reviews.
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Hi I'm running Win7 Pro 64bit without any problems. -- For me the trick was to add my Windows user login/passwd into the Buffalo Users list. Once I did this the NAS would see and allow my user access.
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As far as I know it will only record to internal hard drive. There was no set up I could use to record to my computer's harddrive through the Internet. I'm not familiar with the NAS.
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You can access the drive from any machine on the same network. I have used the NAS with Win 7, Win 8.1, Android, Samsung TV and Ubuntu. If you are asking if the bundled application works with Win 8, sorry mine is installed on a Win 7 machine. Psst, after initial setup you won't need that software at all. Everything can be managed from the Web console.
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Depends on the amount of data that you are backing up. Otherwise you can use it back up from multiple PCs
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I would avoid all Buffalo products. I purchased an NAS that failed after two years. I have come across others who have encountered poorly manufactured equipment and even worse customer support.
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No you cannot attach a USB drive directly to this NAS. But a better approach would be to attach the USB drive to your desktop and run automatic backups from your desktop.
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WD comes with Windows backup software. It's somewhat rudimentary but it works.
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Hello David Yes, in my domestic network scenario I use a Mac and my wife use a Windows laptop and network drive map works without problems. The NAS is connected on my Apple Time Capsule 1TB old version and the GUI interface of this NAS is easy to use and the access is via http. About the FTP, I can't comment because I've never used.
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I use a pc laptop to connect to the lacie 5big NAS Pro when I'm at the office and even when I'm off-site(need login and password which you may set through the lacie firmware which is on the nas pro). I've not had to transfer files froma dropbox folder to a folder on the lacie yet, but I can imagine that it would work. One issue is that copying huge (56G) files from the lacie to my laptop when I'm off-site can take over 24 hours, but this is understandable. Best of luck.
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Price?? This is cheap compared to my Synology NAS that I use for shared storage. This particular device is great for network storage or as a backup device for a 1:many scenario. It is not difficult to setup, just read the documentation. I have had mine running now for 2 years without a hiccup. If you have problems call tech support up. The tricky part is understand one has to claim a volume before one can use it.
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This NAS has a version of Linux running the device and I map right to the drive with the IP Address... there is no need for software, just drag and drop even I Linux.
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Yes, no problem. When the screen "asks" you for the location to be backed up enter that external drive letter.
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You would have to replace the two hard drives in the LinkStation with drives that have a larger capacity. Supported drives can be found here: http://www.buffalotech.com/content/files/products/Supported_HDD_List_LS-WXL.pdf You will still need to transfer your old data to the NAS after installing the new drives.
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I have never opened mine up to look. The thing has a 1T hard drive, that's enough for most purposes. I was concerned about - what happens if I have every important thing on the one drive and then it fails. My solution was to buy a NAS network drive with 2 3T continuous duty rated hard drives. Everything has a mirror image back up copy and it can be accessed from anywhere. It was expensive, about $300, but I have all the storage space I will ever need, and all my stuff is safe. It's not dependent on any one device in any one location. I never tried to put anything more into the ASUS.
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I have 2 units In 2 locations. One is used with a WD Mycloud 6tb drive. The other with a 4tb Seagate cloud drive. I copy to them and back them up us a NAS. I stream from them using the built in DLNA server. They work great for me.
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you set it's frequency of backup. also, the drive always checks the status of the computer. if no back up is required, the WD drive does nothing.