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Comparison Charts

LinkStation™ Comparison Chart

Feature
(Mouse over a feature for description)
LinkStation Mini™
LinkStation EZ™ LS-CL
LinkStation Live™ LS-CHL
LinkStation Pro™
LinkStation Pro™ LS-XHL
LinkStation Pro Duo™
LinkStation™ Quad
High Performance Architecture High speed CPU and RAM provide faster network performance     Yes Yes Yes   Yes
File Sharing over Network Easily store, back up and share all your data over network Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Built-in FTP Server Access your LinkStation’s files via FTP (Files Transfer Protocol) over the Internet Yes   Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Web Access Feature
Access and share your files from any web browser
Yes Yes Yes   Yes Yes Yes
Memeo™ AutoBackup Software included Easy to use Memeo™ backup software for automatic backups on Windows® PCs included Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
LinkStation to LinkStation Backup Additional LinkStations can be stacked for extra backup and storage Yes   Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Gigabit Ethernet Networking Supports high-speed 10/100/1000Mbps LAN connections Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BitTorrent Client For all of your file sharing needs     Yes   Yes   Yes
Built-in USB Print Server
Connect to a USB Printer so that all computers on your network can share one printer
Yes   Yes   Yes Yes Yes

DLNA™ CERTIFIED Media Server

For multimedia streaming to any DLNA™ CERTIFIED Media Player, such as the LinkTheater™ Wireless A&G Media Player
Yes   Yes   Yes Yes Yes
Active Directory Support
Works as a client member in an Active Directory domain by utilizing the domain users and groups
Yes     Yes   Yes  

SATA Hard Drive

Serial ATA Hard Drive for faster and reliable data transfer

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Email Alerts Email notifications of the LinkStation's activity, status and critical system errors Yes   Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
iTunes Server Automatically makes the LinkStation available as a content source in your iTunes software Yes   Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Time Machine™ Functionality   Yes Yes   Yes   Yes
USB 2.0 Port
Expand storage by adding a USB 2.0 hard drive
Yes   Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RAID-0 Mode One massive, high performance network share in a striped RAID-0 array Yes         Yes Yes
RAID-1 Mode (Mirroring) A set of two drives are separately mirrored to another set of two drives Yes         Yes Yes
RAID-5 Mode All 4 drives arrayed into a one massive network share with parity (Factory default)              Yes
RAID-10 Mode
One striped set of mirrors
            Yes
 

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