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Buffalo revamps its popular LinkStation Mini
Faster speeds, built-in BitTorrent and a new glossy design
09/02/2010
Buffalo Technology, a global leader in the design, development and manufacturing of storage and wireless networking solutions, today announces the launch of its next generation LinkStation Mini, available in glossy black or white.
The new LinkStation Mini is available in 500GB and TB of storage capacity and provides users with data transfer speeds of up to 40MB/s. The dual drive LinkStation Mini is feature rich, including BitTorrent client for downloading movies and music. The LinkStation Mini also comes with built-in DNLA media server, iTunes compatibility and Memeo™ automated back-up software to protect digital data. With a sleek, compact and small form factor that fits in the palm of your hand, the LinkStation Mini provides users with a large capacity and low noise level multi-media storage device with RAID redundancy, ensuring that data is never lost. Its fanless chassis means that the unit can be used anywhere in the home without causing any noise disruption and has 60 per cent lower power consumption making it more eco-friendly and energy efficient.
Paul Hudson, Northern European sales director, Buffalo Technology, commented: “As the appetite for digital media continues to grow, consumers expect high-quality, high-definition content to replace traditional formats. The LinkStation Mini is an ideal way for people to store all their movies, music and photos; share it with friends and family and to use it in their homes on a computer, laptop or television. We’ve also included a WebAccess feature that lets people access their data from anywhere in the world via an internet connection so they are never without their music or movies.” The addition of the white LinkStation Mini demonstrates our continued commitment to the consumer market. We’ve listened to customer feedback and have updated one of our most popular consumer products to reflect this.”
The LinkStation Mini’s other key features include:
· High-speed processor provides file transfer rates of up to 40MB/s with enhanced performance
· Control access with group and user level security
· Direct copy of multimedia files from attached USB devices
· Supports Apple Bonjour
· Supports Active Directory
· Supports UPS connectivity via USB port
· Supports RAID 0/1
· In-built Print Server
· Auto-Sensing 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet port
· Silent, with no internal fan
· In-built DLNA CERTIFIED™ Server
· In-Built BitTorrent™ Client
· Fully integrates with iTunes
· WebAccess allows you to store, share and access files from any web browser via PC, Mac or iPhone
· Memeo™ backup software
Pricing and availability
The white LinkStation Mini is available from now from Insight, Misco and other leading resellers.
LS-WSX500L/R1-EU – SRP - £179.99
LS-WSX1.0TL/R1EU – SRP - £249.99
LS-WSX500LR1WHE – SRP - £179.99
LS-WSX1.0TLR1WHE – SRP - £249.99
About Buffalo Technology
Buffalo is a global manufacturer of innovative storage, multimedia, and wireless networking products for the home and small business. The company is recognised as the Number 1 total PC peripheral manufacturer in Japan, and was the worldwide consumer NAS market leader in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 (In-Stat).
The company's storage products are addressing the needs of the individual and the business, providing cost-effective network attached storage (NAS), portable and desktop hard drives, multimedia players, and Wireless LAN routers, which together offer a complete and integrated solution for the small office and digital home environment.
Buffalo's product portfolio includes its TeraStation&trade NAS devices which are specifically designed to bring Enterprise Storage to the SMB. The LinkStation&trade range of NAS products, takes multimedia NAS to the home, and enables you to create a central location to share information, store files, photos and music, and save all your digital content, simply and easily. The AirStation&trade range of easy-to-use, high performance wireless networking products for the SMB/SoHo and home user, with industry-leading AOSS&trade (AirStation One-Touch Secure System) technology, allows users to build and manage secure wireless networks at home or in the office at the push of a button.
Buffalo's strong international industry alliances with companies such as Intel, Broadcom&trade, Nintendo and Microsoft have allowed it to lead the industry in the development of the latest technologies into practical tools for the business and the home.
Headquartered in Japan, Buffalo Technology has offices in the UK, France, The Netherlands, USA and Taiwan. For more information please visit www.buffalo-technology.com.
© Buffalo Inc. 2010. BUFFALO logo, AirStation, Nfiniti, AOSS, TeraStation, LinkStation, DriveStation, MiniStation, LinkTheater and Dualie are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Melco Holdings Inc. or Buffalo Inc. Microsoft Windows and Microsoft logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft corporation in United States and/or other countries. The names and logos of other companies mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
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