Buffalo TeraStation Pro 8 Bay Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell October 24, 2011 Featured Announcement, NAS

We are testing the Buffalo TeraStation Pro 8 Bay within our gigabit network which is pretty much as good as you will get for a home or small office environment. It is a mixed network with several 1GBit switches for ultimate performance.

We switch the Raid configuration to ‘0' across multiple drives to keep the testing across platforms as closely matched as possible.

We rerun the test 10 times and take an average for the final result.

Performance is excellent averaging around 100 MB/s read and almost 50 MB/s write.

Next we created a folder of files, 500mb/s in size with a variety of data , from small database documents to larger jpgs and bmps.

We have no complaints overall with the performance results, averaging 70 MB/s read and 43 MB/s write in the mixed file tests.

We tested the system in Raid 6 format, as it was supplied. We copied a 4.36GB file to and from the Buffalo TeraStation Pro 8 Bay NAS in Windows (computer system had a 240GB SF2281 Solid State drive installed).

Raid 6 performance is very strong, averaging around 92-94 MB/s read and 44-47MB/s read.

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6 comments

Brooke
October 24, 2011 at 5:20 pm

Synology have changed the game lately. I need to see some of the new QNAP products however, they are a great competitor for Synology.
Francis O'Hara
October 24, 2011 at 5:28 pm

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.
Root
October 25, 2011 at 8:12 am

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.
Davy
October 25, 2011 at 8:13 am

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.
Colin
October 25, 2011 at 9:32 am

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.