Buffalo LinkStation Mini SSD - NAS review
We wanted to like Buffalo's LinkStation Mini SSD. It's simple to configure, compact and power-efficient, but it's no more energy efficient than the hard disk-based version of the LinkStation. It isn't any faster than its predecessor at copying files either and is in fact very slow compared to other NAS devices. Its disks aren't designed to be user serviceable either. In short, it doesn't have any advantages over its hard disk-based predecessor but costs almost twice as much making it a very expensive dud.
If you must have a compact, power-efficient NAS, our recommendation is Synology's DS409 Slim. It isn't much bigger, has four easily accessible hard disk sleds, is very quiet and is much quicker at copying files when fitted with standard hard disks.
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