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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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25.6.2012

So you're looking for a new hard drive to hold all your photos, music and other stuff? You've just stumbled on the one to buy. I was looking at Western Digital, Lacie, Freecom and Iomega and they were either too expensive, too slow or both. This drive has a zippy 7200rpm platter AND it only costs £79.99 (at time of writing).Whilst deciding on which drive to buy I was reading a blog that suggested buying 1 terabyte drives instead of 2 terabyte drives as you'll lose an awful lot of data should a 2 terabyte drive fail whereas if you store on two 1 terabyte drives you have more chance of losing only one drive. Why not buy 500gb drives instead then I muttered!? Because of the space, said the computer.I emptied my keks and carried on!Anyway, back to the review; the casing of the drive is shiny, black plastic which is fine but doesn't feel awfully strong. Saying that, I wasn't thinking of taking the damn thing on a trek. It's sitting on my desk. It's the drive inside that needs to be good. I had a Lacie CD writer that was cased in metal but the writer blew up inside. I was wounded let me tell you! Hated throwing that lovely metal container in the skip. Made a good bong sound when it hit the bottom though!Back to the review (I know I go off on a tangent, leave me alone); The USB wire isn't particularly long but new ones don't cost an arm and a leg if you're bothered. I'm not coz I'm dead tight. That's why I bought this cheap drive.I run the drive on a 27" iMac running OS X Lion and it works perfectly. My previous Freecom drive on the other hand likes to go to sleep (when left alone for a bit) and not wake up unless turned off and on again (IT Crowd anyone). That's now my backup of backup option. Excellent. The only problem with the mac is, Apple decided in their infinite greed and arrogance that they would stay with USB 2 and implement their own Thunderbolt ports instead! The drive has USB 3 thus rendering it USB2 only! Thanks for that Apple. Thunderbolt is cak! The drives cost a squillion quid for it.Finally, the drive is very quiet. No fan means very little whirring, clickity zip nonsense. My mac makes more noise. I duff it up every now and again!
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31.1.2012

I ordered the drive direct from Amazon UK (not through a Marketplace seller) and it came with a Euro 2-pin connection on the transformer brick. In order to use the drive I'd need an adapter (about £3). A shaver adapter isn't suitable as it doesn't make a firm connection with the narrow pins; and as the transformer is the type that plugs straight into a socket, you can't cut off the Euro plug and attach a UK one.To be fair to Amazon, this is really the manufacturer's error, as the box was sealed and mis-labeled as a UK model. Since only a couple of other customers are reporting the problem, it's probably just a small batch that's affected.Update: Amazon have kindly replaced the drive and the new one,I'm pleased to say, has a UK plug.The drive itself is a good, standard no-frills device, quiet and unobtrusive. Its narrow size make it easy to squeeze onto a crowded desktop, though it does also make it a little less firm-footed than other drives I have. It could tip sideways if you brush heavily against it. It's near silent when idling (no fan), but there's a very audible spinup buzz and a soft drumming noise when accessing. I scanned it for bad blocks, as I do with all new drives, and none were found.Mac users should note that it arrives with a Master Boot Record (Windows) partition scheme. If you want to use the drive as a Mac startup disk or for Time Machine, you should change the partition scheme to GUID Partition Table (for Intel Macs) or Apple Partition Map (for PPC). Use Disk Utility to do this BEFORE you put any data on it. Instructions here: [...]
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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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25.10.2014

I should mention this straight away. It may be a flukey co-incidence and nothing to do with this drive that I just bought new and unopened HD-LXU3 from Amazon. I installed the hardware and ran the installation file that is on the Buffalo HD. When this finished my virus checker (Bullguard) found a file called Au_.exe that it put into quarantine. Google told me that this is a trojan and I can only assume that this got in during the installation.I only installed the main application so the bug can't have come from any of the freebe stuff on the disc.Apart from that it installed fine on my Windows 7 computer with only USB2 and backed up my main C: drive with over 500G in about 13 hours.Since Iwrote the above Buffalo has replied to my report to them and they say that this file is safe for its purpose and my virus checker may be too sensitive. However, they also suggest formatting the drive to get rid of the installation software after installing and before use if I'm still nervous. You can read their email by going to my cloud folder on https://www.box.com/s/48fdwskjwerrvwe4u13e Hope this helps and doesn't stop the sale of what otherwise seems to be a good piece of kit at a sensible price. I'm still on Win7 so can't comment on its behaviour with 8 or later.
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1.7.2012

For a little while now I have been thinking about expanding my desktop storage and dithering between getting something like this or a Network Attached Drive system that would be expandable and flexible; most of this was caused by the huge fluctuations in price that were still evident from the floods in Thailand last year. In the end, I had no doubts that this was the right route to take since I have had an excellent experience with a Buffalo Ministation 500GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Disk Drive for my work laptop. The 2TB drive I have in front of me now is quiet in operation most of the time (you can occasionally hear it click when de-mounting from the computer)and it was recognised first time when I switched it on (no long drawn-out retrieval of drivers etc.). I set it going to pick up the various video and music files I needed the drive for and it dutifully copied them over from my root HD with no fuss or glitches. There are so many comments on the internet about the annoying features of other makes, but Buffalo have delivered a really good product that does exactly what it says on the box, without attracting all these negative comments. I have to say I am very happy with it. Definitely recommended.
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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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5.5.2019

This drive was bought as my main drive for storage of documents and photos.I swap between Windows and mac so wanted a hard drive that would be suitable for both operating systems.I have no complaints about how quick it is, however, I made the mistake of encrypting it using their software on Windows. What I did not appreciate is that, if you do this, the drive can no longer be read on mac os.Unfortuately I did not realise this until I had loaded all my files onto it which wasted a lot of time.If you want to use it on Windows AND mac, do not encrypt it, otherwise you need to remove the encryption using their software which entails wiping all the data. The drive will also need to be reformatted to Fat32 as it comes as NFTS as default.So,in essence, to use on mac and Windows you need to reformat the drive to Fat32. Buffalo have a program for doing this, but be aware that encryption will not be possible.I learnt the hard way and perhaps this review might be useful to some folks.
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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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27.8.2012

This desktop external hard drive has a high capacity (1.81TB, NTFS formatted) and reasonably high speeds for large files (Crystal Disk Mark 3 results: Sequential: 168MB/s read, 130MB/s write. Random 512KB: 46MB/s read, 82MB/s write). It has functioned reliably, albeit noisily for the three weeks I've had it.The hardware encryption feature is accessed through a piece of software that is bundled with drive; this software was functional on Windows 7 Home Premium. Every time you enable or disable encryption, the drive must be reformatted. Due to the dependency on software to decrypt the drive's contents, if booting up from something other than a full fledged operating system (e.g a recovery CD/DVD),you can't access the drive with encryption enabled. I did not use the back-up utility or any other included software - just the encryption/decryption utility.If you can put up with the constant humming noise it emits, this drive is good value for money.
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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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15.1.2012

I am very pleased with this purchase. It reformatted to a Mac-compatible file system following the instructions that came with the drive in seconds. It now serves as a Time Machine back-up drive.There is no power button, instead it does not turn on until both the power and the USB are connected and turns itself to sleep after a few minutes' inactivity. The drive still appears on your computer when in this power-saving mode, and only takes a second or two to come back to life when you try to access it.The drive is very quiet - much more so than the Iomega drive it replaced.Regarding speed, it took a few hours to back up my entire hard drive, but that is to be expected.In conclusion a good drive,well made with simplistic but satisfactory instructions and an intelligent power-saving feature
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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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6.1.2012

Buffalo DriveStation 2.0TB USB 2.0 External Hard Disk DriveWhat can you say about a hard drive? Loads of space & works pretty well. So far so good, quite quick at transferring files etc.I have`nt used the drive much as yet, spent a bit of time in backing up the data from another external drive (Samsung), and it seems just as good as that one. Only time will tell, hard drives to give up the ghost occasionally, that`s why I`ve got a backup drive as a backup to the first one. Belt & braces approach to protecting data.There are two types of people, those who backup & those who lose data. Hard drives do fail & at the cost of a drive that are relatively cheap these days, this one was £80,it seems a bit silly not to backup those things that are irreplaceable.So far a very good buy,
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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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