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14.11.2012

Four stars, five easily achieved if Buffalo put in a tiny bit of effort. This 2TB disk shows 1.82TB when you plug it in. That's decimal counting v binary and the triumph of marketing over reality but I suppose we expect that. I was concerned initially that a European version had been sent with a two pin plug but it soon turned out that the power supply comes with two sets of prongs. You choose the appropriate one; three pin 13 amp and slide it into place, ignoring the second one which is a two pin European connector. I've not seen one of these before but I understand they are becoming quite common.Inside you will find a USB 3 cable about 3 feet long.I am running mine on USB 2.Once plugged in it seems to be a bit faster than my five year old 500MB Western Digital, maybe 15-20%.It hums gently. It chatters when it is active.I have only installed the "eco manager" software but I got "HD-LXU3 Enable/Disable" too, whatever that is. I'm baffled by it. My WD disk went to sleep without any external interference. The packaging refers to "Power saving mode" and "auto power off mode". Running either program results in a UAC warning. Running the "Enable/Disable" program results in a warning that the disk is not active. Oh yes it is. I have also gained an entry in the programs that run at boot time - the eco manager. Eco manager seems to work satisfactorily but it does seem to be a bit of a faff. Why doesn't the disk "just do it"? I'm not obsessed with power saving, I just prefer the silence of the disk not running when it's idle.The disk comes with various bits of software and manuals on it. There is a folder "MAC" which you might think contains sommething relevant to an Apple Mac but which in fact contains only a sub folder "Manual". In this folder you will find two PDFs; "formatguide" and "manual". The former is a short manual in a Chinese type script, the latter a 15 page manual repeated in 16 languages.Buffalo REALLY need to put in a tiny bit of effort to tidy things up. If I were to travel back a week in time I think I'd go for a new WD.UPDATEI found some soft rubber feet in a drawer so I applied them to the bottom of the disk. It is now silent, even when running.
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4.3.2014

I was given this drive (HD-LXU3) as a birthday present last June (2013) but after upgrading to Windows 8.1, it would drop offline from Windows Explorer after about 2-3 minutes of not being accessed and I'd have to request the password to get it to come to life again. Very annoying and not how a HDD should behave.I contacted Buffalo about this and we've been in email contact ever since with them asking me to try different things on the drive and also to use it on different computers. It worked perfectly on a friend's laptop running Vista.At one point the drive developed a fault and data could not be accessed at all and I lost about 2tbs of photos,music and movie files.Buffalo classed the drive as faulty and agreed to let me return it to Amazon for a replacement which I did a few weeks ago. This drive also had the offline issue and I kept asking Buffalo for an explanation but nothing helpful was forthcoming. After the test on my friend's laptop, I did some detective work on the MSN website myself which led me to believe that the drive was not compatible with Win8.1I 'suggested' this to Buffalo last week and FINALLY they replied as follows : "That unit does not support Windows 8.1. If you are not happy with the product you can return it to your retailer but we don't issue you return form."NOT HAPPY !!! I'd say I'm not happy as I've already filled the replacement with 2tb of data and have no other place to move it to now. Why didn't they tell me about this incompatibility issue months ago and certainly before getting Amazon to replace the faulty drive with a similar one. I'd have asked for a refund if I'd known and bought a different drive !So I have given the product a very generous 4 stars as it's fast and good value for money - just don't currently buy it if you run Win8.1
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7.7.2012

ive bought a few of these to hold the vast amount of camcorder footage i record, the first few have been fine although i think its high time prices dropped to where they were before prices were hiked aftere floods in taiwain closed factorys making hard drives. 2tb should be around £60 not the 90 ish i just had to pay, anyway the buffalo 2tb i purchased recently for my father has caused me a worry..well my fathers antivirus has, he uses avira free antivirus and it detects 2 viruses on this brand new hard drive ! Brand new Buffalo drive station 2TB bought from Amazon.co.uk. The day after I installed it a normal scheduled Avira scan found vozacke.exe TR/crypt.xpack.gen and autorun.inf TR/autorun.bx.1.These were found in e:\driver/vozacka.exe and e:\autorun.inf. Surely these are false positives? Why did the next day's virus scan find them again in e\systemvolumeinformation\_restore......etc hopefully its his antivirus making a mistake/false possitive but if its not that would be really bad..ive heard in the past products can ship with viruses due to factorys plugging in products to check them at the factory but the pc the use is infected with a virus. if/when we find out if it is a false possitive ill let you know. ps his buffalo drive is the e drive listed above.we quaranteen the viruses and theyve not been found again on subsequent scans.other than that 2tb is a lot of space but full hd camcorder users can quickly fill them up if like me you film every day and post things to youtube eg bird videos from cambridge
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20.3.2015

This review is for the Buffallo HD LX3.0TU3-EU, I bought mine from Amazon.de as I live in the Netherlands and this site has faster shipping times.Overall, itt's a good drive, with the added benefit of inbuilt encryption on the drive.I have a couple of issues with it though - firstly, it is very very noisy, much louder than my PC 5 fans running at maximum. It generates a low frequency humming when operating (presumably from the disk spinning) that is really really annoying. I have a couple of other external drives, both externally powered and USB powered and all of them are virtually silent. It has reached the point now where I do not run the disk all the time,it is only connected when needed due to the noise it generates.Secondly (and this is not directly an issue with the disk) - it comes with something called "TurboPC EX FileCopy", which takes over all the file copying / moving operations that are run via Windows. It is criminally slow, taking 4-5 times longer than a standard copy operation - if I run a 'copy', a 'move' or an 'xcopy' command from a CMD interface these are all much much faster - so a recommendation from me is NOT to install the "TurboPC EX FileCopy" utility - it sucks.On the whole a decent product, but not a 5 star one.
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19.4.2012

Had this a few weeks and it's working as the main backup for a Mac laptop. This has been a complete copy of the laptop's hard drive and a separate back up of all my photos, themselves around 150 GB. This did take a long time due to the transfer speed of usb 2 but I was expecting that. I cannot hear this unit when it is powered up or backing up so the front light is useful in reminding me that it is switched on. I do not leave it on all the time. I turn it on when and connect to the laptop whenever I want to do the backup. Latterly, I am just using the Mac's built in Time Machine program for the backups which also works without any problems with this hard drive.Having had two internal hard drives fail in the past on an older PC desktop machine,I now also back up files from the Mac laptop to a PC desktop and its separate external hard drive. this wouldn't allow for fire, flood or theft but does reassure me short of having yet another external hard drive for back ups kept in a different location.
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5.2.2013

After MUCH (!) deliberation I found an incredible price (Dabs eBay outlet £76) for this hard drive and it is perfect. Compact but sturdy, good looking, very quiet and sleeps when not needed (with the installation of included Eco Mode). The thing obviously hums when it's spinning but it really doesn't tear the walls down and what's more if you scour eBay for some rubber feet for a few pence you can stick it on your wooden floor or desk and you won't even know it's there.USB 3.0, exceedingly fast file transfer, nobody needs quicker than this 7200RPM drive.What else... included software to make file transfers EVEN quicker, replacing Windows' standard copy-paste/move algorithms...backup software (haven't bothered yet)... RAMdisk utility.As a professional PC and Mac user, as well as a total tech-head, trust me and buy this without comparing any more models or prices, or reading any more reviews. If you don't love it when you get it... I don't believe you!Read full review...
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5.8.2011

I have always used Buffalo products and so hoped the experience of the reader who had the CRC error problem was a one-off. However, this also happened to me when I tried to access the installed software. Also, the drive didn't seem to load properly - it was allocated a drive letter and I could access it from My Computer but there was no icon next to the drive letter. I got round it by right clicking to display the properties and then under the tools tab I ran the error checker. This takes some time to run but indicated an error with the help files. I therefore removed all the files except for the system volume information file and the recycle bin.It now displays properly in My Computer and works perfectly and I have loaded my video collection and watched a fair bit of it on the TV directly from the drive. Don't let this put you off - it's a brilliant drive and I am just about to order a second - you don't need the help files as it's very straightforward to use.
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5.11.2011

I have bought two of these drives in August 2011; couldn't resist when the price was only £64! One of them has been on 24/7 ever since and the other one is for backup. As usual, I have formatted them and started using them without any problems. I now have 8 Buffalo drives, ranging from 250GB to 2.00TB and they are all still 'alive'. I think the oldest one is about 6 years old.The only negative thing about these particular drives is that now and then they can get a bit noisy; in fact, they are the noisiest of the whole lot - not sure why, maybe the design? The noise comes and goes and it is not a problem, more a curiosity,as the older drives are so quiet.I know some people have had problems with their Buffalo drives; either I have been lucky with my 8 or it may indicate that the brand is actually pretty reliable on the whole. I had considered other makes every time I needed a new drive but in the end I had bought another Buffalo because it is what I know.
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26.9.2011

I bought this to hold all of my movies and music as my current 1TB drive was almost full. First impressions were good, it looked nice and sleek and wasn't too large. Once it was wired in it was very easy to set up and start transferring data on to it. The data transfer took a while but that is USB 2 and a 1TB of data not than the drive. I had none of the issues mentioned elsewhere and have been running it for a month now with no problems. The only slight irritations were that the plug was a single unit combining the power-supply and plug, which made it slightly difficult to accommodate in my power strip,and the glossy front that looked so nice had picked up an electrostatic charge from the protective cover and has replaced my vacuum as our chief dust collector!I would recommend this if you want a large capacity USB drive with very few cables.
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23.11.2012

I purchased two of these, one to have at home and one to leave an alternate location. At this price seems very good value and the storage space is cavernous. Hardware encryption was easy, you just set a password and the drive folder won't open when you next plug it in unless you have the password. This item does not power on from USB, you have to use the power pack too (supplied). Comes with a USB 3 cable which can be used in any USB port (USB 1, 2, or USB 3, whatever). Using USB 3 it was very fast and so far reliable (my other USB 3 drive from _another manufacturer_ keeps losing its connection on my ASUS laptop which was driving me mad). So it's reliable, fast,easy to use and nice enough looking and the only downside is that this beast - albeit relatively small - needs external power.
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3.10.2011

I bought this for my husband to put photos and music and from our main pc and i did my homework between makes seagate buffalo and western and i decided to go fro this. I'm so pleased i did as after just plug in and play everything downloaded so quickly without any hassle or hiccups. my husband was impressed and kept going over to the pc to check the window that had come up expecting a problem downloading or software issue and he came back with the reply "I can't believe its done it already!" after each item he downloaded i thibk this would be a pleasant surprise for people who like us just want the job done and it to be reliable nothing else.....as for the other reviewer sorry you were just unlucky,i'd try another one for sure!
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28.1.2013

I had to write this review because it has taken me a while to find the right product for my Windows 7 Home Premium. I have used Freecom for many years now and I decided to buy yet another Freecom drive. Unfortunately it was not compatible with my computer and half the time it was not picking up the drive at all. I then took the plunge and bought this Buffalo DriveStation Velocity Drive and thankfully it picked up my computer system straight away. Very easy installation. I am running it with usb 3.0. I have given it 4 stars instead of 5 because I would prefer to have an on/off switch on the drive rather than it automatically turn on and off with the computer,I also would prefer it to have rubber feet under the drive.
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23.1.2012

Nice looking, quiet, and arrived very quickly. I'm only using this for archival backups so it doesn't need to be fast, but it copied everything over as fast as my FW800 one does! It's a good price too compared to most disks which are rocketting in price at the moment due to Thailand floods. Needs reformatting for Mac which is easily done in Disk Utility.Addition:- So pleased with this I ordered another one to use as Time Machine disk on Mac laptop. Initial transfer a bit slow, but honestly not wildly different from FW800 - 7 hours as opposed to 5 hours. It's Mac who really need to improve the transfer capability of their machines - my old PC would do similar in a couple of hours with an Expresscard!
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29.12.2016

I use this as an external HDD for my wii-u console. For me the fact that the unit powers down when I put the console to sleep or switch the console off is an advantage. Unlike the other reviewer whom was using it for a media server this particular feature of the Buffalo device is an advantage. The wii-u only rook a couple of minutes to format the device and I have no problems with it. The drive comes with software for windows called drove navigator and a manual for macintosh OS'es so if you think you may want to re-use this device later, you should copy this off onto your PC/mac before you connect it to the wii-u as the console re-formats the drive and you'll loose the software/manual on thedrive.
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8.4.2013

Very happy with the compact design & speed of this item, but..Although I have a USB 2.0 connection, this unit only works when also connected to the additional mains adaptor. I'll have to investigate further but thus far it seems a discrepancy in the specs given..Also when it fires up it hums fairly loudly (in my otherwise silent home office) which is ok, because if I close my eyes I can imagine I am behind the controls of a small propeller light aircraft soaring above the clouds over the English Channel....seriously though at least that reminds me to unplug it from the mains when not being used.But it would be more convenient if it were solely USB powered..maybe I need a dual split USB cable?
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