Buffalo Cloudstor 1TB Network Drive Powered by Pogoplug Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so that video that's going around virally about how unboxings are stupid
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um I will do as he requested I'm just
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going to do away with the Box on this one very quickly here's the unboxing
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component of today's video there it's gone I'm not going to talk about the
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matching connector or the matching uh I
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don't know whatever they're called packing materials okay we're just going
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to we're just going to take off this plastic without any ceremony whatsoever
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there you go are you happy is that better is that a better video
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done just kidding guys I'm not done already okay so this is the Cloud store
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powered by pogo plug this is a buffalo external hard drive product all right
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the things that it comes with are a flat Ethernet cable which is very nice
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looking you don't usually see uh products like this come with a nice high
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quality Ethernet cable like that it's terrific all right we've also got an AC
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todc power adapter so it's a 12vt 4 amp
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power adapter got a plug looks a little something like that okay and we have a
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wall plug that plugs into the power adapter look at this it goes in this way
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or it goes in this way your choice
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Innovative okay no I'm just kidding that's not the part of this as
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Innovative so you can access and share anytime and anywhere so you have secure
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accessible storage remote access from anywhere easy secure sharing and no
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service contracts or fees now that part
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is cool this is a one tbte product it's a 2 Bay single hard drive so what that
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means is that Buffalo has innovatively found a way to make their device have a
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single hard drive take up two bays no
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I'm just kidding that's not how it works what actually happens is you take off
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the front here and you can install an additional drive into the Cloud store if
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you'd like so I'm just going to show you guys the procedure for removing the drive that is pre-installed you just do
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that and then you can pull out the drive
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so inside we have a Seagate Barracuda
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7200.12 1 tbte drive and we can go ahead
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and put it back in should be so
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desire just like that so now it's clipped in it's not going to go anywhere
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so you just use the loop to pull it out from the back so you can actually see the mechanism here that pulls it out and
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just pull this down so that it'll come out all right so let's go ahead and
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throw the front back on
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there we are okay so we have power function as well as info SL error LEDs
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on the front of the unit although there's no power switch on the front of the unit because innovatively Buffalo
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has located that on the back we have our power in a Kensington lock we've also
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got our Ethernet port we have Auto on
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and off for our power switch as well as one USB port and a function
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button let's see what else Buffalo has to say for themselves elves on the Cloud
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store box so there's your home network so that means you can take apparently
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music documents videos and whatever that
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is oh pictures and you can stream them to your home computer to a mobile device
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such as an iPad and then from there you can go to the Internet which is the
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cloud aspect of this particular device and you can access your data with a
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mobile device such as a smartphone uh like the Apple iPhone Android or
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blackberry and palm wow so they've got full support for all those different
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platforms there that's really cool and then a PC or a Mac so whether that's a
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laptop or a desktop whatever the case may be if you have network access you
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will be able to get your files so here they actually show the software so
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here's uh Austin evidently so there's a bunch of photos here these are Brian's
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photos from Europe and you've got a bunch of different things here actually
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we should have a look at the software in a couple minutes here so you can freely access share and you can share your
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photos slideshows videos and music and much more with anyone anywhere through the cloud no contract set up the Cloud
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store in second so we're going to test that how long it actually takes to do that adding capacity is a snap by
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inserting a second hard drive so I actually don't see anything in here
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about raid so it looks like all you get to do by adding an additional Drive is
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just increase the capacity you've got an intuitive web interface setup Cloud
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stores Drive letter or a device on your PC your user experience Remains the Same
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whether you are at home or away it supports bit torrent UPnP and apparently
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Facebook and Twitter so that's kind of neat what else is here oh that is a
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gigabit Ethernet port so the speed of this device should could be pretty
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decent and it does support raid one or
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jbod so jbod means that you're just increasing the capacity raid one means
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you can throw in two identical drives and you can have them mirrored for
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additional data security so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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