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The Buffalo NAS software is an attractive interface, although it seems much less responsive than Synology's Diskmanager. It is also not multitasking capable, which is noticeable.
We moved through the interface to set up a shared folder and user account.
Setting up a shared folder takes a matter of minutes. There is around a 5-10 second pause between panels as the system sets up the folder. Again, this feels slightly sluggish when compared to the Synology counterpart, even with a lower end internal hardware configuration.
The networking options highlight our dual LAN cable configuration.
Setting up a user account takes only a minute and passwords and access can be configured (read/write).
Setting up port trunking only takes a few seconds and the software allows for various configurations to suit a variety of network situations.
We are using a Raid 6 configuration as shown above, and mapping the shared folder was painfree. As with most of the interface functions, there were delays of between 5 and 15 seconds depending on the task. By this stage I was becoming a little frustrated with the interface delays. Supported RAID levels are: 0, 1, 5, 6,10, 50, 51, 60, 61, Standard (JBOD).
There are other options for setting up various media servers and to restore all the settings to default, in case a problem occurs down the line. We found that most settings were catered for throughout the panels, although it is rather stripped down when compared against Synology's DiskManager software.
