Buffalo LinkStation 210 NAS Personal Cloud Storage compared to wd my cloud In Depth Review

[@yoitstimo]

watching this in 2022. very well made video especially for one from 2014. good job.

[@Allbr3x]

Lol same

[@david7763]

still figure out this thing in 2024 LOL

[@joshuabrown677]

2024 still well made

[@houthan9368]

@@joshuabrown677 i bought it used, how i do factory reset it keep asking me a connection to ls210d6d5 could not be established, do u want to automatically correct the ip address? Clicked yes and asked what the admin password , tried default password "admin" and password does not not work. Any ideas using "NAS Navigator 2" thanks

[@90FirstGenPGT]

8 years ago and these are still being sold lol

[@EdgarGomez05]

Congrats on getting top 100 of all Amazon product reviewer.

[@AlvinTeoMD]

awesome review Lon, in-depth in its vital points and at the same time concise 'all you need to know' information. Kudos!

[@coopsevy5664]

This look really helpful so you don't have to drop you saved pictures to you computer. Thats super cool.

[@01sapphireGTS]

This is a really high quality, in-depth review. Thank you for the post.

[@davdiaz24]

I like your reviews, very informative and you keep it interesting. Cool haircut and love the old school background with the old school looking wood book shelf :P

[@Kottesque]

Great in-depth review...especially the advanced menu... keep them coming

[@keithfrank1303]

Great vid thanks I am thinking of getting a 220 . Last one I had was a Go Flex Home that was easy and worked well until the server was closed down . Currently a Win 10 Pc is doing FTP but issues with public access being restricted ( aka it don’t connect unless you have mobile data and don’t use public wifi ) makes it miserable . From what I have seen the app will open and play pretty much any content stored on the drive .

[@skyrabbit74]

Got a working 210 after having to deal with 3 RMAs with Buffalo. Once getting it and hooking it up, it didn't want to talk to my router. I had to go in and force my router to accept it and finally, I have backup for my RAID 0. Its been copying files for the better part of a couple hours now.

[@Super6ix06]

Nice review. .I'm looking for something just to back up my Google photos and iCloud photos and videos and access it from my phone's . What you recommend?

[@redflakesx]

Hi, i just subcribed to you simply because all of your videos are detailed and really plays a big part in my decision to get my first NAS device. I saw the the Buffalo mentioned, ytd in one of my local Challenger stores. i'm still thinking which NAS(2TB) i should go for. So far, i have looked at your videos from WDmycloud to Seagate Central to Buffalo. Can you please advise me? thanks!

[@redflakesx]

Thanks! The reason im considering those 3(buffalo, WD, Seagate) is because i only saw those 3 in my local challenger store. Also, i have already decided for now, on WD My Cloud because it can get many users, configurations and usb 3.0 safepoint seems fairly important unlike Seagate Central which u have to pay for a seat and has usb 2.0. My concern for now on WDmycloud would be, does it really matter for the write speed and read speed? I have also read on forums that WDmycloud disconnects easily from the cloud network and failed on remote services. So bottomline, i'm still considering. Thanks again too and i will look into your video on synology when i get home.

[@manankaria]

Lon, you mention this is Time Machine compatible, and later in the review you mention how you have everything hardwired to the network. Did you do any testing with Time Machine wirelessly? Also, I know you mention the risk with the single drive units, and in the review you talk about the ability to make a direct copy of the drive. Is there a way to replace the hard drive in the LinkStation 210 should its hard drive fail, or a way to transfer a copy back to the LinkStation? Great review!

[@gabrielmonteza2013]

How do you open up its casing to replace the failed drive?

[@rajwoodson]

My LinkStation doesnt appear in the NAS Navigator, on the desktop app and mobile. I have the ethernet going directly into the router and steady white power light. Troubleshooting says it's not on the same network as my computer but that is wired directly into the same router. Any ideas?

[@arturowill1]

It also scared me the first time I shut down this back up, no software shutdown... just manual toggle

[@theeliterumbero]

Your videos are very informative thank you.

[@aspataro79]

I know this is an old video but I need some help: playing videos from within the NAS playback but no audio through iPhone speakers. However, if I connect headphones or Airplay to another speaker the audio works fine. What could be the problem?

[@edwardmackey270]

The Navigator program that came with the device will not recognize the device. Workaround is to connect via a Web Browser to the IP address. You can get the same functionality there. P.S. I deleted the program from my computer.

[@TLCaputo]

Intelligent and informative.

[@Ferriani]

Have you heard of the new QNAP HS-251 and TS-251 devices? Would love to see how it performs with the HDMI output playing high res videos, compared to the streaming boxes and NUCs

[@TravisHeadleyMD]

Just hooked up my device. Despite the device showing a solid white light when I try to connect I get an error saying No NAS devices found. Any idea how to troubleshoot this? I can’t find anything useful on google.

[@houthan9368]

i bought it used, how i do factory reset it keep asking me a connection to ls210d6d5 could not be established, do u want to automatically correct the ip address? Clicked yes and asked what the admin password , tried default password "admin" and password does not not work. Any ideas using "NAS Navigator 2" thanks anybody

[@aricberner8051]

Can I plug a 5TB drive into the back of the Buffalo Linkstation 210 NAS and basically increase my storage to 9TB?

[@salvador2k1]

Will my network recognize this right out of the box?

[@baboon7th]

Can i automatically back up certain iOS or Android folder(s) from any of these two? Mainly photo folders.

[@jimyrarose]

I accidently changed my Ip address on it and I can no longer access it. Any ideas that can help me?

[@jefrymax89]

hi lon, can i ask you if you recommend this product over my cloud (1bay), because i like the torrent option that my cloud doesn't have, cheers

[@AlvinTeoMD]

Lon, will a sleep/wakeup function prolong the shelf-life of a NAS drive? If so, which NAS drive would you recommend? I am looking for a cloud hub which i can put in seagate or hitachi drives. enough of WDs, they have caused me lots of problems with data loss and disk write failures. Do advise!

[@AlvinTeoMD]

Yeah, agreed. Love the synology cloud's web interface. Another question. Shall i stinge by using a non NAS drives for cloud purposes?

[@davelimonta1]

sorry if you answered this question. Can you use this NAS to use it as a plex server?

[@djkeithjust]

I want to be able to backup & sync an external hard drive connected to my Mac to the linkstation 210.

[@JigarVPatel-ri9uv]

I am missing thumbnails on videos from iPhone how i can see thumbnails? Please please help

[@LP-fy8wr]

Don't use PNP and don't punch holes in your firewall to make this thing face the internet directly unless you want to get owned. Don't use any cloud service, setup a vpn and connect to it like that.

[@fedconde]

Hi Lon , how is it going? i'd like to know 2 things: 1 - how to download a movie torrent direct to NAS and be able to watch in my smart tv? 2 - how to copy some movies that i have in a pen drive to the NAS? Thank you!!!!

[@_darkbrian]

+Fabio Conde look for QNAP NAS.

[@fedmadesimple7044]

If I only need the NAS Drive for two pc's and 1 iPad, can I have my NAS connected to internet via wifi adapter as opposed to being directly connected via Lan if unavailable?

[@niksamihaljevic1375]

I am working on the ship. On the ship was installed LAN network for 15 computers with same IP subnet mask. I want to know if possible install movies on BUFFALO LS210D 4TB (like on external hard drive) and sharing with all 15 computers that everybody can watch movies?

[@SsorinataHayashi]

hi, nice review. can i connect this hdd to my smart tv? like watching movies

[@jacquebussey8700]

Yes via DLNA

[@bisamsapkota5801]

wooow... I just got terastation 1200D, just playing around w/it. Sadly App interface esp on android and file management isn't the best, hope it was as orginzed as google cloud.

[@TheFsmTeam]

Hi Lon, Can you tell me if this can be seen by an Android Box (Running Kodi) ?

[@chrisl8007]

Does this nas support plex?

[@gamergye]

To my knowledge, it doesn't have a server, but if you set up a file share, you can map the share on a pc with the plex server and point the plex files at that network drive.

[@SenorAhole]

Damn, I should have bought the WD my cloud

[@yuno2010able]

Everytime I try to delete a file, it said something like 'root/unix required...'. Any ideas why? Thanks

[@gamergye]

I'm late. Try setting permissions in the UI.

[@shadaytree217]

If you have to select what file protocol a file to open with, does this mean i cant open a file on my windows laptop that was put on the drive from my mac?

[@shadaytree217]

***** thanks alot man great review by the way. very helpful and informative.

[@brotherjohn4400]

can I run channels dvr on this

[@Maikoke10]

Can someone help me??? My buffalo isn’t opening up.. even on my computer. 😭😭😭

[@monr457]

A new one? Is it the 210?

[@tonygoldenberg]

how do you delete individual files?

[@DanteVelasquez]

thank you :-)

[@Yemenjapan]

Hi Lon , is that also a wifi router ? shall I buy wifi router or this device can also work as a router ?

[@Yemenjapan]

Thank you a lot ! I though it can be a wifi router at the same time , which one do you prefer WD or Buffalo , any differences on the 3tb ? Thank you

[@Yemenjapan]

Thank you a lot Mr.Lon , I already ordered WD . Thank you !

[@Rodfraeser]

You can do a lot, and then you got a EM Sector bad = all my data lost, I did :(

[@mellomdesyvfjell]

After spending two weeks filling the extremely slow Linkstation that can't even be used by USB in an intuitive way, the thing is pitch black and can't be tirned on. Fortunately I saw the thing coming and made a third back upd of extremely valuable data. Return to sender, will never buy that shit again. Useless piece of garbage.

[@mixerguru]

WHAT FUCKING ADDRESS? WTF!! WHERE ????

[@informediatech-bruno5766]

why do you have a mouth?

[@fnymn757]

Will this work with plex server?

[@fnymn757]

***** Thx a lot I'll look into the wd as well