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TeraStation™ Network Attached Storage (NAS) for Business

Buffalo’s TeraStation family of NAS offers reliable, high-performance business-class network storage, including iSCSI and Windows® Storage Server solutions. With high availability storage technologies like RAID, hot-spare, and real-time replication, TeraStation is the cost-effective network storage solution for businesses that value performance and reliability.

Feature
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TeraStation™
TeraStation Pro™
TeraStation Pro™ WSS
TeraStation™ iSCSI
Capacity Range
  1 - 8 TB   2 - 24 TB   2 - 12 TB   2 - 8 TB
Software System
  Buffalo NAS System   Buffalo NAS System   Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2   Buffalo NAS System
CPU/Memory
1.2 GHz CPU, 256MB (TS-XEL/R5)
  800 MHz (Vector) / 512 MB DDR2*   1.66 GHz Intel® Atom™ Dual-Core / 2 GB DDR2   1.66 GHz Intel® Atom™ Dual-Core / 2 GB DDR2   800 MHz (Vector) / 512 MB DDR2
Rackmount Availability
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Active Directory User/Group support check mark *2 check mark *2 check mark check mark *3
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iSCSI Support       iSCSI Target / iSCSI Initiator   iSCSI Target
VMware® Certified
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*TeraStation ES TS-XEL/R5 features 1.2 GHz Processor, 256MB DDR2
*2 Active Directory support provided by the Buffalo NAS OS has no defined maximum number of users/groups, but is generally recommended for domain sizes up to ~3,000 users.
*3 Via Supported Host Server. iSCSI Block storage can be attached to any server with an iSCSI initiator and formatted by that server.  If the server supports a function, it is extensible to the iSCSI storage as well.
† Select TeraStation III and TeraStation WSS models are VMware® Certified: TeraStation III TS-XL/R5, TeraStation III Rackmount TS-RXL/R5, TeraStation Pro WSS WS-QVL/R5, TeraStation Pro Rackmount WSS WS-RVL/R5

 

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