Link station not very reliable

[erdingtown]

   

When I bought the link station duo as a network storage device, I thought I covered my Back-up problem. WRONG! The fact that I have two drives and runing raid one provided me no security at all. After a power outage and restart, my link station failed to be recognise by the network. I spend 1 hour with tech support only to find out that the control board was not working and I would have to return the unit for replacement. What about my data? 650 gbs of mirror data. I need it back.

 

No such luck. if the motherboard crashes do to line spikes, you need to return the unit, but they don't give you the data back. Furthermore, if I bought another unit and exchanged the drives, they may not work. they may automatically reformat loosing the data. My only change was to take the unit to a data restoration company and have them retrieve the data from the drives. I did this and it will cost me about 400 euros plus another drive to put the recovered data on. Whats the point of having a Buffalo unit with Raid 1 if I can't retrieve the data once the mother board goes dead? Why would they design a product where you can't replace the motherboard without erasing the disc drives?

 

This is a joke. We had to shut down the office until the data was retrieved. How nieve I was to belive we were covered. I guess I need a back up unit to back up the back up unit.

 

Buffalo in my book is a pile of s*** I will leave it at that. I guess I need to find another company that has reliable units where you can replace the controller without distroying your data. It won't be another Buffalo

[Memoryman]

   

Sounds like you were using the unit as a Primary data source, and not to Backup data.  Otherwise, you could have simply replaced your unit and reloaded the data from the Primary data source. Also, line filters/UPSs are always suggested for use with data backup devices.