Buffalo Terastation

07 NOV 2007

Launch price £650.00

Stuff says

Surely it’s time to upgrade your available memory? This baby makes disk-hungry content less of a problem

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Pros Flexible. Intuitive and easy to use. Massive memory
Cons It’s a little on the expensive side for what is essentially a big clump of hard drive

Yep, we know: storage isn’t sexy. That’s why we don’t waste your time trying to turn you onto ‘cool cupboards’ or ‘wicked wardrobes’. The fact is, a thing that’s just a space to put other things is a little, er, boring.

Except for this. The Buffalo Terastation is all about storage. But it’s also one of the coolest gizmos around: a simple little box that you hook into your home network so you can store oodles of music and video on its one-terabyte hard disk.

Yes, that’s 1000 gigabytes. In other words, a very big boat-load of memory.

Thanks for the memory
So what’s the point of such a device? Well, many people are discovering that the kind of 80-100GB hard drive we got with our computers is a bit titchy. Especially once you play around with iTunes for long enough to notice that an AAC file recorded at 128kbps actually sounds, when piped through a hi-fi, a bit rubbish.

But a whopping terabyte of memory allows you to store all your music in Apple Lossless format (it’s a simple equation: bigger file, better sound, more disk space taken up). If you end up filling this baby with music, then we can only say we hope you’re making a living as a DJ because if not, you’ve a serious obsession that’s going to waste.