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Buffalo include an optical disc with software – this includes the NAS Navigator 2 which works in a similar fashion to the Synology Assistant.
The Buffalo assistant software leads the user through a series of instructions shown above.
Installation takes a couple of minutes although we don't really see a need for the plethora of individual panels.
After the initial install is completed the assistant offers to install other applications, if needed.
Sadly the NAS Navigator refused to find the TeraStation Pro 8 Bay unit across our network. We tried the old fashioned way, locating the IP address manually via our network router.
As we had both Gigabit LAN cables connected we found that the system was configured over two IP's. 192.168.0.28 and 192.168.0.29. We loaded Firefox and tried to access the TeraStation directly.
The user is prompted with a default login and password. These are ‘admin' and ‘password'.
The software checked automatically online for a new firmware release and returned a positive update. We attempted to update this via the NAS system directly.
This screen held for a long time, and we reckoned it might just be a slow download – after all the file is 369 MB. Even with our 100MB internet connection after 45 minutes it seemed to have failed. We attempted to download the update manually to a computer and then upload directly to the NAS system.
The update file is an EXE, which autoloads the Nas Navigator 2.0 software. This failed to find the TeraStation Pro 8 Bay NAS on our network, so we couldn't update the firmware – even though we were able to access the TeraStation from our computer browser. After many hours of disabling network devices, firewalls and antivirus software, we gave up. Quite disappointing.
Synology have changed the game lately. I need to see some of the new QNAP products however, they are a great competitor for Synology.
Good looking NAS. I was eyeballing the DS212 from Synology for the price.
This seems faster than I would need, id be happy with 30 MB/s as my current nas is around 8MB/s sucks for copying MKVs over the network.
I saw this in our local store outside london and it is very well built. Performance looks good too.
Their software is way behind synologys as the review states, but it is still quite good for general users.
Good to see other reviews outside synology. I think the fact they fill this unit with hard drives is a very positive move. other companies need to do this, while charging the right prices for the drives.
8 1TB drives I would out to cost around £380 retail, so the nas itself is just under £1,000. I am not sure the pricing is good when compared against some competitors for the unit alone.
We have one of these in our work to handle file sharing for database documents between departments.
It works well but our IT guy said what was mirrored in this review. the software interface is dated and behind competitors.