Buffalo MiniStation Air 1TB Portable Hard Drive
$129.99
$179.99
28% off
Reference Price
Capacity: 1TB
Condition: New
Top positive review
10 people found this helpful
Great idea, not sure about the execution yet
By Gumbo Perkins on Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2014
UPDATE: 7/3/2014 I received the new unit. So far it has been working without any issues. I let the WiFI run all night and here and there I would stream a movie or video clip. So far it has been working great. 3rd time IS a charm I hope. ******** Here's my experience so far... ...This device is a brand new product for Buffalo - so new that I was the very 1st to call Buffalo Tech support about this device. I love the idea of this device - portable hard drive, hot-spot, cell phone charger battery, but I will be on my 3rd one in less than a week. The first device was defective - the hard drive was most likely shot - D.O.A. Could've been the shipping- rough handling maybe?? Amazon was great and the exchange was easy. The second one I got worked. I loaded about 500 Gigs of music and movies on it. I then streamed one movie to an iPad (mini retina) an another movie to an iPhone (5). It was working great, I then started scrubbing the movie timelines to see if there was any lag, well the app or device hung up so I restarted the MiniStation Air. Once re-connected through Wi-Fi with the iOS app I got an error on the iOS app (at the bottom black rectangle/ white letters) of something like "the device is not connected. Check Wi-Fi. The weird thing is that I could wirelessly control the MiniStation except see the files on it. I could power it off from the app or connect it to a Wi-Fi hotspot etc, but not access the files on it. This problem was so jacked up that the Buffalo tech (as helpful as they could be) suggested a return, and being the very first case for this device, I did not want to jack around with trouble shooting. So, let's hope the third time is a charm. I'll update my review after I get that one. I'll give it 1 star for now until I get a MiniStation that actually works (and that's being really nice). What I can say is that Amazon has been great and easy to work with in these exchanges.
Top critical review
Stopped working <year after purchase - non responsive Customer Support
By Alexanders on Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2015
Stopped working after about a year. Would not power up (CALL-198151 - in case anyone at buffalo wants to respond) Only way to contact CS is via email - no phone number could be found - the responses I did receive did not directly address my issue and then stopped. To be fair to Buffalo - not that I feel they deserve it - they did offer to replace the unit if the product was under warranty, when I supplied the purchase information (via Amazon) there was no further correspondence. When the product worked it was great but as far as a value calculation - $168 (6/14)....time loading the movies, only 4 successful road trips - CS that can't be counted on, a seeming disregard for their customer - and the foul mood I am in as I embark on a 7 hour trip with the kids with no movies.........I consider it a BAD BUY
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