Bohannon Tech» Buffalo DriveStation External USB Drive http://www.bohannontech.com/blog Tech Reviews & Commentary Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:56:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Review: Buffalo DriveStation External USB 2.0 Hard Drive 1TB http://www.bohannontech.com/blog/2008/12/10/review-buffalo-drivestation-external-usb-20-hard-drive-1tb/ http://www.bohannontech.com/blog/2008/12/10/review-buffalo-drivestation-external-usb-20-hard-drive-1tb/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:58:18 +0000 http://bohannontech.com/blog2/?p=316 Continue reading →]]> buffalo-drivestation-1tb-external-hdd-iconEveryone (or just me?) has a few hard drives full of pictures, songs, video, and software. If you want to back all of that up, DVDs are not practical. You gotta get a BIG external hard drive you can move from computer to computer.   I’m very happy to be able to write a positive review. The Buffalo DriveStation has exceeded my expectations!

Its cheap ($129 on special),  quiet,  and fast. I copied about 150 GB of data onto the drive in just over an hour and a half.   Separate performance tests confirmed that it can consistently transfer data at about 25 MBytes/Sec.

There’s only one hitch — if you want to copy files larger than 4GB onto the drive you have to reformat it to NTFS,  it comes FAT formatted for maximum compatibility with other operating systems.

Nerd Notes: I compared the speed of this drive to my internal SATA 500GB drive, and they are pretty close, but internal is still about 5MB/sec faster.  Internal hard drives will get a speed boost because write caching is enabled by default. You can enable write caching on external hard drives too, but you gotta make sure to safely remove the hardware to avoid data loss.

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