Buffalo Terastation pro vs live in performance(transfer speed)

[Armornone]

Does anyone here own a Buffalo terastation live and/or terastation pro (ts-TGL/R5) ?

I am trying to figure out if the pro version is about the same speed as the live version?

Also, does anyone know the max size hard drive you can place in the pro version? I have placed 1.5TB in the live version but I don't know what the pro version is able to handle.

Thanks for your help.

 

[SimonD]

It takes at least the 1.5tb disks, I purchased a couple of the 1tb version (256gb disks), I have since updated both of them to 1.5tb disks without issue.

When I need to I will be trying to update to 2tb disks but at the moment I don't have a need to update yet.

 

[Armornone]

It takes at least the 1.5tb disks, I purchased a couple of the 1tb version (256gb disks), I have since updated both of them to 1.5tb disks without issue.

When I need to I will be trying to update to 2tb disks but at the moment I don't have a need to update yet.

Do you have a Terastation pro version 1, version 2 or version 3?

 

[SimonD]

Do you have a Terastation pro version 1, version 2 or version 3?

I have the Pro 2, I wouldn't mind getting the Pro 3 but only for the iSCSI features, but I have an Openfiler solution providing me with iSCSI luns atm.

 

[Armornone]

I have the Pro 2, I wouldn't mind getting the Pro 3 but only for the iSCSI features, but I have an Openfiler solution providing me with iSCSI luns atm.

You are able to upgrade to 1.5TB without problem because you have a Version 2 machine instead of a version 1 machine.

What does the iSCSI allows you to do that having a virtual network drive won't? The iSCSI lets you see the drive on the network as if it were attached with a USB right?

I have never owned a NAS with iSCSI support before.

Thanks.

 

[SimonD]

You are able to upgrade to 1.5TB without problem because you have a Version 2 machine instead of a version 1 machine.

What does the iSCSI allows you to do that having a virtual network drive won't? The iSCSI lets you see the drive on the network as if it were attached with a USB right?

I have never owned a NAS with iSCSI support before.

Thanks.

Buffalo say that the device is not user upgradable, even if it is a Pro 2, but it is.

iSCSI is a network disk protocol (an alternative to FiberChannel and NFS), it's used with virtualisation platforms (VMware and Microsoft Virtualisation platforms offer support for iSCSI out of the box). It should not be confused with USB because it's completely different (even with the presentation). With iSCSI you present the drives using a IQN (iSCSI Qualified Name), this IQN tells the server (virtual or physical) where and how to connect to remote disk storage.

The only home NAS that I have that supports iSCSI is one I built with OpenFiler, that was always going to be more powerful than my Terastations.