Fast access and reliable so far.

Finally all my files are in one central location with built in redundancy and easy access

Their cloud connection service (BuffaloNAS) is free and facilitates access to your LinkStation without having to go through complex firewall configuration or setting up an external name with a service like DynDNS if you have a dynamic IP on your internet connection

I finally figured the link is (with secure access disabled in setup

Their cloud connection service (BuffaloNAS) is free and facilitates access to your LinkStation without having to go through complex firewall configuration or setting up an external name with a service like DynDNS if you have a dynamic IP on your internet connection

This is a good idea but they need to work on the hardware and software, the FTP and web access Failed since it does not work at all, even forwarding the port and doing everything correctly will not help it is all for show

Their cloud connection service (BuffaloNAS) is free and facilitates access to your LinkStation without having to go through complex firewall configuration or setting up an external name with a service like DynDNS if you have a dynamic IP on your internet connection

Their cloud connection service (BuffaloNAS) is free and facilitates access to your LinkStation without having to go through complex firewall configuration or setting up an external name with a service like DynDNS if you have a dynamic IP on your internet connection

Their cloud connection service (BuffaloNAS) is free and facilitates access to your LinkStation without having to go through complex firewall configuration or setting up an external name with a service like DynDNS if you have a dynamic IP on your internet connection

Buffalo's free WebAccess service allows you to create a personal cloud for easy remote access and file sharing with anyone, anywhere over the Internet."Where's the privacy in that?

Better lately, but still way too many errors when accessing it

Their cloud connection service (BuffaloNAS) is free and facilitates access to your LinkStation without having to go through complex firewall configuration or setting up an external name with a service like DynDNS if you have a dynamic IP on your internet connection

Their cloud connection service (BuffaloNAS) is free and facilitates access to your LinkStation without having to go through complex firewall configuration or setting up an external name with a service like DynDNS if you have a dynamic IP on your internet connection

Their cloud connection service (BuffaloNAS) is free and facilitates access to your LinkStation without having to go through complex firewall configuration or setting up an external name with a service like DynDNS if you have a dynamic IP on your internet connection

Remote access is not too convenient

Remote access through iPhone and iPad apps has also become quite more reliable

Provides easy access to shared storage for all the devices on my home network.

Unfortunately, I am denied access to various folders even when logged in as administrator from

RAID0 gives you the benefit of combining the capacity of the drives and improving performance by splitting access across the drives, but it has the big disadvantage of no redundancy

/Do not set it up for secure web access ([...

Their cloud connection service (BuffaloNAS) is free and facilitates access to your LinkStation without having to go through complex firewall configuration or setting up an external name with a service like DynDNS if you have a dynamic IP on your internet connection

Their cloud connection service (BuffaloNAS) is free and facilitates access to your LinkStation without having to go through complex firewall configuration or setting up an external name with a service like DynDNS if you have a dynamic IP on your internet connection

In this case, the LinkStation 420 will allow you to share your files with devices on your network that support DLNA such as Tablets and Televisions.• USB Device Server: With this feature turned on, the LinkStation can act as a pass through for controlling USB devices over your network such as a Printer.• Advanced Settings: Advanced Settings is where the guts of the administration for the LinkStation 420 takes place and as such I have dedicated a section to discussing its features below…File Sharing-----------------The File Sharing section is an area where you can set accessibility options for the data on your NAS device such as folder creation, user and group creation as well as remote access features such as WebAccess details and other access protocols like FTP and AFP

I finally figured the link is (with secure access disabled in setup

Especially like the remote access

This is an excerpt from the product description: "Free Remote Access Service and Shared Central Storage.

But the WD has much better internet file access and sharing and it also supports all four 6TB drives in RAID 5.

The remote access is a joke.

This may not be a problem for Windows 7 Pro users; I am on Home Premium, which limits network drive access

Everything worked as it should.

You may be happy with this unit, as it's not so much bad as not to my liking.

This item works as it should it's iPhone app still hasn't been updated to work with iOS 7

Documentation for Apple device and Mac users seems straightforward, but many non-Apple users may find they will need to do a bit of independent research in order to get the device to work as it should.

It would never get 5 because of the cheap plastic constructions, but if everything else worked as it should, I would have rated it higher.

For my smaller music files it was more like 35MB/s

Copying to the USB 3.0 external hard drive speed is merely a few M/s, even slower than IX2 that has only USB 2.0.

From PC to NAS over GigE, it was a steady 55MB/s according to Windows

For my smaller music files it was more like 35MB/s

Copying to the USB 3.0 external hard drive speed is merely a few M/s, even slower than IX2 that has only USB 2.0.

From PC to NAS over GigE, it was a steady 55MB/s according to Windows