October 7th, 2007 | by Josh Norem
We had so many problems during the installation and configuration process that we would not recommend this product...
Highs: Drive shows up automatically; integrates with iTunes; lots of features
Lows: Expensive; software is buggy and confusing; does not support Vista out of the box
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Buffalo Technology is well-known for its networking products, and now the company has attached all its networking prowess to a 250GB hard drive for a little bit of NAS (Network Attached Storage) action. Though the LinkStation Live’s most basic features work very well, we experienced numerous problems setting it up, and were ultimately underwhelmed with the overall experience.
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by Skylar on October 31, 2007:
“I got the 500GB model at frys and it worked out of the box great. I got the Vista patch and it is doing just what is was intended to do "hold my back up files". ” More...
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by Tony on November 4, 2008:
“Had the drive for 33 days before it died. Buffalo Tech support had me update the Firmware and I lost all my data. Tech support are nice but don't seem to know their own product. Lost days of time, backup and now I have an RMA drive that I won't use as a backup...” More...