Drivestation Flexnet for other products?

[harishv]

   

Hi,

 

 Last weekend I saw this at Fry's

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/external-drives/drivestation/drivestation-flexnet/" target="_blank">http://www.buffalotech.com/products/external-drives/drivestation/drivestation-flexnet/

 

and was super thrilled since this is exactly what I was looking for. Have both LAN & USB (so that you don't have to stream to PS3, but just play it over USB which should be really fast). What I was wondering was whether Buffalo plans on upgrading the Terrastations with this interface?

 

Thanks

HV

[Colin137]

That's very doubtful. The Flexnet is FAT32 only, and FAT32 has several limitations, including a maximum 2 TB volume size, maximum 4 GB filesize, susceptibility to fragmentation, and slow performance on large volumes. Notwithstanding, I will forward the request to our corporate office.

[harishv]

   Thanks much for your response. Can i ask what is the filesystem on the Terastation?

[Colin137]

All of the Terastations and all of the Linkstations except HD-HLAN and HD-HGLAN use the Linux filesystem XFS. This is not natively readable on Windows, but over the network, it doesn't matter; it will be communicating through FTP or Windows File and Print Sharing (SMB and CIFS) which works on the file level, not the filesystem level.