Can anyone help testing the Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo ?

[robtheplod]

Hi Everyone

I'm after a NAS drive and like the look of the Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo. I have a particular requirement though which most NAS devices seem to fail. When editing a previously saved document (Word etc), does the Buffalo change the created date to the modified date, so both are the same, or does it leave the created date as is - as it should?  The Freecom devices do this and they seem unable to fix it. If anyone can test for me that would be very much appreciated!!!!

rob

[davo]

Pretty sure the created date stays the same even after editting, i'll test it now and let you know.

[robtheplod]

excellent, many thanks. I'm using Windows 7 if that makes any difference!

 

Is buffalo support good, as Freecom is dire..!

[davo]

I'm based in Europe so cannot say anything about US support, however if i ever needed anything they have always been very accomodating.

[davo]

Unfortunately it appears the created data is also altered when the file is modified :-(

This is probably due to the file system being used (XFS)

[Luuk]

i have tested the same thing, and you are right!

 

But also when i copy the file to an ext3 (on a linux system) and modify the file, i see the same thing happening.

 

As a last test i copied this file to mu C:\TEMP\ folder, and edit it......

 

Same result again! (The dates after 'Created:', 'Modified:' and 'Accessed:' are the same (and equal)

 

This might also be caused by the application i used to test this (LibreOffice Writer)