Computing
  | Buffalo 500GB Drive Station: Advanced Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Drive |
- High Speed SATA Hard Disk Drive - 7200rpm
- Auto power on, auto setup, auto back-up
- Silent performance fanless design and heat sink body
- Scheduled backups using professional software (memeo)
- Secure Lock Ware drive encryption
- Pre-formatted hard drive for immediate use
- Auto Setup feature and stackable with optional fan unit
- USB Interface
- Standards Compliance USB Specification
- Seek Time Max. 11 millisecond
- Data Transmission Speed Max. 480 Mbps
- Power Consumption Average 17W
- Power Supply AC100-240V 50/60
- Weight 1.27 kg
- Dimensions 45 x 163 x 200 mm
- Operating Environment 5-35°C, 20-80%
- OS Compatibility: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98SE
The Buffalo DriveStation SATA gives reliable easy to use storage quickly and simply with this ultra quiet drive.
The DriveStation SATA USB 2.0 Hard Drive offer a quick and easy way to instantly store, access, backup and transfer your music, photos, videos and other files. Easy to setup DriveStation easily connects to any device with an available USB port: desktop, notebook, LinkStation or TeraStation network attached storage. In an age of digital storage, ensuring data confidentiality is a necessity. Secure Lock Ware encrypts and protects your important personal data from theft, misplacement, and unauthorized access. Using optional fan unit, multiple DriveStations can be stacked with easy-to-use slide-in clips, to save valuable desktop space. Schedule backups with Memeo professional backup sw. Available in capacities from 160, 250, 300, 400 and 500GB.
Average rating (6 reviews)
Good drive, low price
Comnerd | 08/07/2008 | See all Comnerd's reviews (1) »
Pros
Low price, large amount of storage, play.com's quick delivery
Cons
No e-sata cable and therefore transfer rates are not quite as high as they could be (this won't affect most people though and is not enough to knock a star off)
Other thoughts
Fantastic drive at low price from the one of the most reliable computer companies, Buffalo.
Also in response to an earlier reviewer depending on how you format the drive you get different amounts of memory, 33Gb is actual quite a common amount to lose over 500gb and it is nothing to worry about and rest assured that there is actually 500gb of possible memory on the drive just if is not all usable by the computer. The easiest waay to think about it is to use a diamond analogy that in order to make it look beautiful you often lose some of the diamond in the cleaning process. Hope this helped
you try it you will like it as i do
mac1963 | 14/12/2007 | See all mac1963's reviews (8) »
well wot can i say about the buffalo hard driver well again its a good pice off kit to have and the price is grat a must have.I have had my buffalo hard driver for sum time now and i must say that i am verry happy with it and i have not yet found a 500GB this cheep eny where as cheep as play.com there is a lot of hard driver's out there but i think the buffalo one is the best one for me......
buffalo ??
adrian1965 | 09/11/2007 | See all adrian1965's reviews (3) »
this is a very good machine but look close at it says its a 500 gb machine but when looking at in on my computer its say 466 gb that a 34 gb short fall what may not sound a lot but its a lot i think and having great problem with the memeo sofeware on it and it not free you get a 30 day free trial but saying that it is a good machine and fast delivery
