I'm in the market for a home office detached media storage unit after one of my SSDs failed.

I'm considering the Buffalo Linkstation 12TB unit for $450. I'm not familiar with the brand though. I don't know if there are better options.

amazon.com/BUFFALO-LinkStation

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@Tfmonkey

Looks OK, and Buffalo is a known name in the market.

Anything you get will have RAID, so best to also buy spare drives for when one of them fucks up. Never RAID 0. Either RAID 1 or better yet, RAID 5 if your unit can do it.

See this for an explanation (wundertech.net/what-is-the-bes)

Also, RAID is not backup it's just disk redundancy. It pays to also backup to a single high capacity disk in case of major oopsies.

Good luck.

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