Buffalo DriveStation Duo 4TB (2 X 2TB) USB 3.0 2 Bay Desktop DAS

Product Description

Drive Station™ Duo is a 2-drive, USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0, high capacity, redundant storage & backup solution for PC & Mac® computers. Configure for full capacity or mirror the hard drives for redundant data protection. 2-Drive USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 Storage with RAID Redundancy Drive Station™ Duo is an easy to use 2-drive USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 storage solution for PC & Mac® computers. Instantly expand storage or schedule automatic back-ups with USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0/2.0 plug & play connectivity. Easy to Use Storage With terabytes of storage, Drive Station Duo provides reliable, easy to use storage for your PC or Mac® computer. Quickly expand the capacity of your computer for your favorite music, photos, videos & more. The simple USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0/2.0 interface offers plug & play setup & universal connectivity. Easy Scheduled Backup Drive Station Duo is perfect for backing up your important files. Disaster & hard drive failures can occur unexpectedly; don't leave your important files & treasured memories in the hands of chance. Schedule regular backups for your PC with Buffalo Backup Utility or use Time Machine® for your Mac. Protect all of your data, down to the last byte. Flexible Storage & Automatic Data Protection Drive Station Duo provides users the flexibility to easily maximize capacity or protect their data using RAID redundancy. RAID 0 combines both drives into a single array offering maximum storage capacity with no redundancy. RAID 1 offers maximum redundancy by mirroring both drives. Data is automatically duplicated, so that if one drive fails, the data is kept safe on the other. Buffalo recommends RAID 1 for all devices using two hard drives. Backup Business Essentials Drive Station Duo comes with one license of Nova BACKUP® Business Essentials, an easy to use, complete backup solution for Windows® PCs, Windows® Servers, & SQL/ Exchange Databases. Restore any file, from a single view, regardless of when or where the files were backed up Local & online backup Free & premium off-site backup capabilities Integration of online storage services for reliable compatibility Disk imaging disaster recovery allows complete system imaging & complete system restore System restore completed in matter of hours instead of days Bare Metal Restore for quick reconstruction on blank system Essential to business continuity Each unit comes with 1 license of Nova BACKUP® Business Essentials Buffalo Tools Buffalo Tools is a feature-rich suite of optional software included on many Buffalo Drive Station & Mini Station storage products. Any or all of the following components of Buffalo Tools may be installed on Windows PCs. Buffalo's Backup Utility is an easy-to-use & fully featured backup software for Windows PCs & can be used to back up one or multiple computers with a single Buffalo external hard drive. eco Manager is an energy efficiency tool used to conserve energy & reduce battery consumption by regulating the power usage of the hard drive, cutting power to the drive during extended periods of inactivity. RAMDISK is a simple utility that means that you can create a RAM disk on your Windows PC which creates a small, but extremely fast environment to work on files in. Secure Lock software for Windows® provides complete control of the data encryption on your Buffalo external hard drive, providing password protection & software data encryption. Specification Internal Hard Drives Number of Drives
- 2 Drive Interface
- SATA 3 Gb/s Hard Drive Sizes
- 1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB, 4 TB Total Capacity
- 2 TB, 4 TB, 6 TB, 8 TB Supported RAID Levels
- 1, Normal (Independent Disks) Max. Disk Transfer Rate
- 225 MB/s (RAID 0, sequential read) USB (Universal Serial Bus) Interface Standard Compliance
- USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.0 / USB (Universal Serial Bus) 2.0 Number of Ports
- 1 Data Transfer Rates
- Max. 5 Gb/s (USB 3.0), Max. 480 Mb/s (USB 2.0) Other

Dimensions (W x H x D)
- 3.4 x 5 x 8.1 in Weight
- 4.5 lbs Operating Environment (Fahrenheit)
- 41-95° Client OS Support
- Windows® 8 (32-bit/64-bit), Windows® 7 (32-bit/64-bit), Windows Vista® (32-bit/64-bit), Windows® XP, Windows®2000, Windows Server® 2003 (32-bit)*, Windows Server® 2003 R2 (32-bit)*, Windows Server® 2008 (32-bit/64-bit)*, Windows Server® 2008 R2 (64-bit)*, Mac OS® X 10.5 or later*† Power Supply
- AC 100-240V 50/60 Hz * Only basic external hard drive functionality is supported in these operating systems, some included utilities may not work. † The HDD default format is NTFS; to work with Mac, reformat the HDD using Mac Disk Utility.