I am thinking of buying the LinkStation Mini, which does have a function button. All of the reviews said that it did not do anything and the manual doesn't mention anything to do with it.
Also the screen shots I have seen of the admin interface do not include the Direct Copy menu item.
So I am confused. I would be nice to get confirmation from Buffalo why the product blurb includes this item but it is not documented.
This is all the information I found about it - so I am hoping that it works.
Are you able to copy data from the USB drive to the internal drive using standard copy behaviour - without going through the host computer? It would be nice if the device is intelligent enough to know that the source & destination are on the same device and not involve the host computer.