Buffalo Live Station Pro LS-XHL
1. Download torrents remotely through its built-in Bittorrent client-- this way I call on my NAS to download whatever I want and by the time I get home it's all ready
2. Stream movies wirelessly across through my uPNP device (Archos 5) to my TV ... no more transferring of files-- it becomes an extension of my media player!
3. Remotely access files through webaccess
4. Share large files to friends-- I just tell them to access my NAS through the NET
Basically its a computer that I can remote control and access... best of all it stays on without consuming much electricity.
Ahh... yes I do love this device-- sad to say support sucks and I'm on my own since I bought this from the US, so I doubt local Buffalo distro would support me. I've gone through the forums of reflashing firmware etc etc but none of it worked for my NAS!
I learned that the file system of the Buffalo NAS is XFS so no good mounting it on Windows, thank God again for UBUNTU, I managed to take off the hard drive and run it straught from UBUNTU, phew all files are still intact, so it could be the board or corrupted firmware that's bugging my NAS-- I assume it was power failure last week that caused this.
Today, started backing up and transferring 100GB of data... 700GB to go...
I also came across this forum: http://buffalo.nas-central.org its a wiki site on how to hack your NAS station... oh joy! Finally an excuse to hack my station, let's see what the open stock firmware has to offer-- they say more!
Remove the two stickers at the bottom and split the casing into 2!
Well well a WD 1.0TB HDD securely attached to the main PCB of the NAS
Simply remove the screws securing the HDD and it's off! Time to retrieve those files!
VAT Tiu 林明胜 vatman.multiply.com vat.tiu@gmail.com
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