Buffalo TeraStation Pro 8 Bay Review

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

We take the issue of noise very seriously at KitGuru and this is why we have built a special home brew system as a reference point when we test noise levels of various components.

Why do this? Well this means we can eliminate secondary noise pollution in the test room and concentrate on components we are testing. It also brings us slightly closer to industry standards, such as DIN 45635.

As this can be a little confusing for people, here are various dBa ratings in with real world situations to help describe the various levels.

KitGuru noise guide
10dBA – Normal Breathing/Rustling Leaves
20-25dBA – Whisper
30dBA – High Quality Computer fan
40dBA – A Bubbling Brook, or a Refridgerator
50dBA – Normal Conversation
60dBA – Laughter
70dBA – Vacuum Cleaner or Hairdryer
80dBA – City Traffic or a Garbage Disposal
90dBA – Motorcycle or Lawnmower
100dBA – MP3 player at maximum output
110dBA – Orchestra
120dBA – Front row rock concert/Jet Engine
130dBA – Threshold of Pain
140dBA – Military Jet takeoff/Gunshot (close range)
160dBA – Instant Perforation of eardrum

Noise was measured from half a meter away.

Maximum noise was registered at just over 34 dBa, when multiple hard drives and Atom D510 processor were heavily loaded. When idle, the noise dropped to around 30 dBa.

We measured power from the socket with 8 hard drives installed.

No concerns with the power consumption, especially when factoring in that there are 8 x 1TB hard drives installed. We recorded a maximum of 92.5 watts at the socket when loading all the drives with data access.

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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.