Buffalo HD Externo DriveStation Combo 4 de 1TB

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I've had very bad luck with hard drives. This is one of the only brands that has worked out for me. I have purchased 4 so far. I have pretty much filled them up, and have been able to ship them across the country - no problems whatsoever.

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This is a good deal. I needed extra storage and wanted a drive that could do fire wire as well as USB. This one fits the bill and it runs at 7200 rpm which is important in video editing.

One small problem, my Mac Mini did not recognize the drive although the printed directions that came with the drive said it should. To solve this, I had to format the drive and therefore lost any kind of PC software that may have been on the drive. That's not a problem for me, since the drive will be used only with Mac based systems.

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Good drive. I am glad I bought it, the price was right. Yes, I would buy another.

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I use ths drive professionally to back up many large images. I love the casing for the drive. Its very strong and durable.

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I needed an external hard drive with a bunch of space that would play video in real time through my editor. This one seems to fit the bill.

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The product is easy to use and reliable. I have purchased Buffalo products in the past and have always been happy with them. I needed this for a computer that had a Firewire connection, though ist can be used with other interfaces. I am extrememly pleased with the speed at which it backed up my memories, documents, and programs.

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I have ten of these drives that I've purchased over the last couple years. I just ordered two more and when I received them I was disappointed to see they have changed the way the drives are built. They look the same cosmetically but someone decided to cut corners...

THESE DRIVES HAVE CHANGED: Both of the new drives I received vibrate and make very loud annoying buzzing noises. Both of them make the same horrible noise. This is not the solid construction of their earlier drives. The power supply is cheaper and incompatible with earlier versions, it now has a full size USB input instead of a mini, the power switch was replaced with a flimsier version. And the rear panel is no longer held in place by screws, which is probably the source of the vibration and buzzing noise.

It's sad, I finally found a quality drive that performs the way I want and then they change it on me.

Listening to that horrible vibration noise right now... my coworker in the office next to me is laughing because it's so loud he can hear it too.

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Using for backup (Time Machine) of older iMac and seems to be working well.

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I'd never heard of Buffalo before, but bought a couple of these drives for a job because of the price. That was back in January and I've been using them for pretty much every project since. Very reliable, comes with every possible cord you could need, 2 Firewire 800 ports, and oh yeah, they're pretty cheap too.

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For 1TB, this was not only cost effective but also worked really well my storage purposes. I would recommend buying this hard drive.

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I was looking for a drive to use as my mac's Time Machine backup and was directed to this drive [...]. It worked OK for a while, but eventually stopped running Time Machine and became unmountable. Disk Utility was not even able to erase and reformat it. I got an RMA from Buffalo Tech and they replaced it. The exact same thing happened to the second drive. My only option is to replace it again through Buffalo. I do not want this drive as I have no faith in it any longer and I am also out a great deal of time, frustration and the costs to ship both drives back to the manufacturer.

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I needed another external drive for offsite backup of my onboard RAID5 array. This drive is extremely well made, easy to use and even comes with cables. It needs no special drivers and the included software does NOT try to take over and force you to use it. (I use Windows XP backup instead.) Just plug it in and use it. Fast easy and reliable.

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the first 2 months it was a dream come true. it has not been a year yet and it disconnects all the time causing me to have to restart my pc, freezing my projects and that's it. I'm going back to seagate. The seagate I had it for about 2 years and I'm editing videos with it at super speeds without a glitch or anything. To store stuff maybe, but to play music or videos or anything else. not.

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I bought two of these because I wanted 800FW and a step up from WD drives. The case is great, all metal. However it turns out there is a known issue in the oxford chipset with macs. We found it would not automount reliably, and the computer had freezing issues running 10.6.3 an a new imac. Its on the Buffalo forums, and though not everyone gets it, I did with one out of the two. Which for automated backups kills the deal. Is this a real issue or I am I crank? Well 60 days after purchase Buffalo gave me two RMA's and said to me it was a 'known issue' and they were waiting on new firmware from oxford![...]Your mileage may vary, but for me this was a road better not taken.

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Excellent drive for PC; however, has problems with it's FW800 connection. Check the Macuser forums and the Buffalo company forums for more information.

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I've only been using this for 2 weeks now, but everything has so far gone off without a hitch.
I bought this as an alternative to my previous Mercury Elite Pro- which was much more expensive. I do live video editing and was eager to have an external drive that supports FireWire 800 (so a MyBook was out). So far I have no complaints. It's a sleek machine and just as fast as I was expecting.

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Purchased 1 month ago.
Used for storage and backup.
Very Fast, plenty of disk space.
Easy to back up data with the backup software provided.
Great price for 1TB of disk space
No Cons at this time.

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I have two of these and some older Buffalo's too It truly is the best in external backups

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IT'S UNUSABLE, IT ALWAYS CRASHES.

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The first one I got was DOA [...] The second one keeps freezing intermittently when my time machine is trying to back up. It completely freezes my system. I am now changing to firewire 400 as some forums are suggesting it is the firewire 800 connection that may be the problem. Either way it is way too much headache for the money. I have lost valuable data as a result. Try something else.