Buffalo LinkStation Live 500GB £139.99 at Staples

Ste7ieBoy

This is an amazing price for a Buffalo LinkStation Live 500GB

Staples currently have it on special offer at £179.99 instore this Bank Holiday weekend, but when I went to pick up mine it scanned at £159.99!

Along with the £20 off £120 voucher attached to the Bank Holiday offers catalogue/leaflet inserted in todays Daily Mail this makes it an unbelievable bargain at £139.99! :eek:
I checked the receipt and its definitely the correct product code.

I'd get down there pronto as I don't know how many will be left. I only just managed to get last one from my store by reserving over the phone and picking it up.

I actually bought the 250GB model from ebuyer last week for £114 delivered but I returned it as it was faulty, lucky me!

Lütz_Pangaloo

It is a great price for a NAS drive, but I notice there's an interesting comment about using it with Vista on the Dabs website;

Buffalo Linkstation Live 500GB

Also other reviews suggest it has problems working with UPnP media players, DLNA-certified or not, apart from Buffalo's own Linktheatre device.

So great for extra storage - perhaps not so great for sharing media. Pity.

showman36

In what way does it differ from the one below?

http://www.qvcuk.com/ukqic/qvcapp.aspx/app.html/params.file.tsv_556930,html/walk.html.|tsvmetadrill,html

showman36

http://www.qvcuk.com/ukqic/qvcapp.aspx/app.html/params.file.tsv_556930,html/walk.html.|tsvmetadrill,html

mhendo

The QVC one is not a NAS Unit, just USB2.

Lütz_Pangaloo

Showman, the one you've found is just an external USB hard disk for connecting to a (host) PC for extra storage, whereas the LinkStation Live is a NAS (network attached storage) drive that you can connect to a router, making it permanently avaliable to all devices on the network.

In theory this makes it easier to share audio and video files with other machines without a host PC having to be on all the time, but this drive seems to have issues in that respect. It also has two USB ports, for connecting other external drives (like the one you found) or to work as a USB printer server for the whole network.

Yours is the equivalent of the one Aldi are selling next Thursday for £90 (see my previous post).

Ste7ieBoy

Lütz_Pangaloo wrote: »

It is a great price for a NAS drive, but I notice there's an interesting comment about using it with Vista on the Dabs website;

Buffalo Linkstation Live 500GB

Also other reviews suggest it has problems working with UPnP media players, DLNA-certified or not, apart from Buffalo's own Linktheatre device.

So great for extra storage - perhaps not so great for sharing media. Pity.

That may well be true. Indeed I have a friend who has a TeraStation who mentioned the incompatibility before he installed the patch supplied by Buffalo.

Personally I'm not too bothered as I bought the LinkStation because you can install Debian Linux and any media streaming servers/p2p apps/etc that I want.
See http://www.linkstationwiki.net for more details if you're interested.

Lütz_Pangaloo

Oh - I'll take your word for it - all things Linux are strange to me (although apparently it's running quite happily in my Netgem Iplayer and my Toppy).

Sui_Generis

Ste7ieBoy wrote: »

This is an amazing price for a Buffalo LinkStation Live 500GB

Staples currently have it on special offer at £179.99 instore this Bank Holiday weekend, but when I went to pick up mine it scanned at £159.99!

Along with the £20 off £120 voucher attached to the Bank Holiday offers catalogue/leaflet inserted in todays Daily Mail this makes it an unbelievable bargain at £139.99! :eek:
I checked the receipt and its definitely the correct product code.

Can anyone post a scan of the voucher I can't seem to find it online and only just saw this post so I'm too late to buy the paper.

Ste7ieBoy

Sui_Generis wrote: »

Can anyone post a scan of the voucher I can't seem to find it online and only just saw this post so I'm too late to buy the paper.

Just to clarify, the vouchers are attached to the Staples Bank Holiday Weekend offers catalogue, it is not printed in the Daily Mail newspaper, the catalogue was just inserted inside.

It is identical to the catalogue they were displaying instore when I went to collect my LinkStation, except the ones instore did not have the vouchers, which are stuck to the spine of the catalogue.

teecee90

Great spot. The cheapest I found this elsewhere was £211 at Amazon. Just picked mine up for £159.99. It's not perfect but at that price a real bargain.