Buffalo Linkstation

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Buffalo H250LANI was browsing the hard drive aisle at Best Buy when I came across the Buffalo LinkStation Storage Center on sale at a price too good to pass up. This network-attached storage device connects to your home network and sets up in a snap through the built-in web interface. Within minutes I had a 250gb network drive available for file sharing.

Internally, the device runs Linux and can create shares compatible with Windows and/or Macintosh machines (using Samba which means no lame desktop client software required!). Now I’ve got shares available to my Windows PCs and my Linux server. Two USB ports allow for attaching a printer or an extra hard drive for added storage capacity (though the drive will be formatted for Linux and thus cannot be detached and connected to a PC after that).

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