What kind and brand of disks that comes shipped inside Buffalo Duo?
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Sorry for the late response. I bought the diskless enclosure so I am not sure which hard drives they come with.
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I ordered the diskless and installed 2ea, 3TB Western Digital Green drives which were on the approved drive list. Worked flawlessly. I would hope that any drives pre installed would follow their own drive list.
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I do not know what disks came inside the Buffalo Duo, but here's a list of supported drives: http://www.buffalotech.com/content/files/products/Supported_HDD_List_LS-WVL.pdf I am sorry that I do not have a better answer.
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Before I bought mine, I checked the Buffalo website. It can vary depending on when you buy it and the size drives you get. Mine came with Western Blue drives.
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None... The device ships empty. You need to buy your own. Furthermore, the product is junk. Out of the box it did not work for me. I ended up getting a Netgear, I paid a little more like $10, but it was worth it.
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The website provided by C. Burkhart doesn't work. I'd really like to get all the disks. Anyone have a current address where to order them?
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See: http://www.buffalotech.com/products/portable-hard-drives/ministation/ministation-1
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There's two types of drives for these you may want to check what you have before ordering
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I checked the toshiba site. it does not mention double layer dvd blanks as playable.
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I don't know, but what I do know is, don't buy them here. Go to someplace like Office Depot to get legitimate TDK Disks. These are knock offs and half of them will fail.
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I would say it doesn't matter if this drive will work with you're system, don't buy it. The Buffalo DriveStation is a piece of junk, read the reviews. Mine didn't last a month and I lost a lot of pictures and video. Hope this helps.
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Maybe it is luck of the draw. I ordered directly from Amazon and received the bad cardboard packaging. I have not got around to installing the drive yet(hopefully this weekend), so do not know if there will be issues.
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I own several Buffalo mini hard drives. All have never let me down. I have one 6 years old with no problems. Highly recommended.
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Yes, it writes bd disk very well. Just don't try to later read them. The drive needs a firmware update from LG to fix read issues (ver 1.02-A0) and Buffalo does not support updates check their website before you buy! I can't read a year old 48gig backup.
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You will have to buy a thicker slice disk. There is a medium slice disk and a thick slice disk. Amazon sells these also.
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You'll need to ask Buffalo. The hardware device is reported as "gendisk" (generic disk) by my Device Manager. The only way I could establish which manufacturer made my Drive Station hard disk would be to remove the cover. Obviously I don't want to do that. Many computer and peripheral manufacturers change their hard drive providers (bidding for cost-savings) during the manufacturing runs of their devices so you have to ask Buffalo to be sure about what you will get. I can tell you that mine has been a sturdy and reliable drive regardless of what is inside it.
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Hi Rudy,These disks are too small (quarter size give or take), while you certainly could use them I would imagine it would take a lot of time. Quality is there though.
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In October, my 7200.11 came packed in two black plastic end-caps suspending it inside a recycled cardboard box. Looks like Seagate standard; at least, it has their HDD model number label on the outside of the box. That should be fine for the drops from most shipping gorillas, but recycled D-flute crushes easier than virgin, so it ought to be inside a second box to ship. (My particular order happened to be inside another box with other items.) The black plastic caps seem like the same plastic as Other World uses to ship their finished-goods external drives.
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You get a disk in a very thin case. Thin but it is a case. You can put a thin paper like cover inside the front of the case if you so choose. They worked for me.
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It is a marketing thing. They all show the internals to the disk. When you get a new one it is sealed.
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Email their customer support. They are fantastic and will help you get everything you need. You probably don't need what was on that disc anyway.