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

Diskless Network Attached Storage (RN10200), which I think has the best hardware configuration of all three of the NAS I

The initial configuration is not extremely intuitive.

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

Great stuff, quick connect, easy configuration

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

But its configuration will be confusing to novice users

User beware that the RAID reconfiguration process will take some number of hours to complete so it’s best to decide up front which configuration is best for youOverall the size of the unit is fairly small at roughly 3.5” wide by 8” long and as such, the LinkStation 420 should fit nicely wherever you should decide to place 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

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.