Buffalo has taken wraps off its latest high-performance and reliable NAS TeraStation III series for the Indian consumers who are looking for a dependable NAS solution. It comes in a whopping storage capacity of 2 TB.
Retaining all the existing firmware features found in the Buffalo series of NAS products, the TeraStation III comes added with business-specific attributes such a Active Directory support, disk quota support, a share level replication feature and port trunking. With the inherent specifications, the new lineup of network-attached storage solutions can certainly serve the purposes of small to medium sized businesses.
In addition to hot swap and dual Ethernet ports, the TeraStation III boasts off a heavy-duty power supply, an extra-large cooling system and immensely enhanced CPU speed.
What makes the new Buffalo TeraStation III series a must-have NAS solution is the support for simple install and management and five RAID modes (AID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD). The advanced RAID system continuously checks hard drive and RAID performance. With the help of the hot spare, the NAS enables automatic RAID build during a hard drive failure.
Additionally, the latest range also comes with Front loading hot swap hard drives with lockable front panel, an automatic AES-128 data encryption, a built-in FTP server functionality and two USB 2.0 ports for external drive connectivity.
The inclusion of Active Directory Support and Disk quota ensures deterrence of holding too much disk space. Besides, the available scheduled shut down claims to reduce needless access and proves to be cost-effective.
Some of the other technical aspects of the Buffalo TeraStation III series include:
Apart from that, the LCD display shows important TeraStation information and disk status for users’ convenience.
The 2TB Buffalo TeraStation III is slated to reach the Indian market by March 2009 at a suggested cost of Rs.90,000 with a three-year warranty.
