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For the best deal on the Buffalo Technology LinkStation Pro 500GB Shared Network Attached Storage LS-500GL (Black), you'll want to compare prices before you buy. Our list of stores carrying the LS500GL (located below) tracks merchants who often have bargain prices and great sales. At StreetPrices, we want you to have the most accurate information possible. That's why we update our prices as soon as we notice a change — other comparison shopping sites update only once or twice a day. 
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OK While it Lasted!
I have been using the LS-500GL for 14 months, then (audio) snap! The 'share' folder was no longer available. Also the cooling fan stopped.
Good to share, but becareful for back ups
I love my Buffalo, and it provides a great hub for files to be moved about in the office area, but without a RAID 0 system I wouldn't suggest it for back ups. Raid 0 copies files on a server to two drives so a back up is really there if one drive fails. (With these single drives when it's dead, you're dead.) SO, great to exchange files and store them short term. Just invest in more if you are looking at backing up your business or important files. Mine areactually used for lab user folders ...
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Overall, it does the job, but beware... recovery from disk failure could be difficult.
This is my second Linkstation unit I bought. The hard drive failed on the first one a little after a year (just out of warranty so Buffalo won't replace it) and the unit won't boot up as a result. I checked the USB drive I had connected to the Buffalo for data backup and found that the backups had been failing for a long time and I wasn't notified (you have to configure it to do so). I was on the phone with tech support multiple times for hours to no avail. They cannot get the unit to boot up. T...
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