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Buffalo's DriveStation AV USB 2.0 Multimedia Hard Drive is a unique storage solution designed for use with a variety of devices. The horizontal design of DriveStation AV and its integrated capacity meter make it ideal for use in home entertainment centers with TV sets, media players, cable and satellite boxes and gaming systems like Sony PlayStation 3. DriveStation AV includes Buffalo Tools, a feature-rich suite of tools designed to enhance computer performance and the day-to-day digital life of PC consumers. With Buffalo Tools, users can boost transfer performance by up to 70% using TurboPC, conserve energy and battery consumption by utilizing ECO Manager and back up PCs with the easy to use Buffalo's Backup Utility. DriveStation AV can also back up the internal hard drive of your PS3™. With an extensive list of features and its compact form factor, DriveStation AV is a perfect storage and backup solution for your media center, gaming room and even your office.

Size: 1 TB Color: Black Brand: Buffalo Technology Model: HD-AV1.0TU2 Original language: English Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 8.67" h x 9.50" w x 3.31" l, 3.10 pounds Horizontal Form Factor Capacity Meter Sleep Modes External Multimedia Hard Drive with TurboPC Buffalo Backup

Buffalo's DriveStation AV USB 2.0 Multimedia Hard Drive is a unique storage solution designed for use with a variety of devices. The horizontal design of DriveStation AV and its integrated capacity meter makes it ideal for use in home entertainment centers with TVs, media players, DVR boxes and gaming consoles. Stylish and Sleek Buffalo's DriveStation AV USB 2.0 Multimedia Hard Drive is a unique storage solution designed for use with a variety of devices. The horizontal design of DriveStation AV and its integrated capacity meter make it ideal for use in home entertainment centers with TV sets, media players, cable and satellite boxes and gaming systems like Sony PlayStation®3. DriveStation AV includes Buffalo Tools, a feature-rich suite of tools designed to enhance computer performance and the day-to-day digital life of PC consumers. With Buffalo Tools, users can boost PC transfer performance by up to 85% using TurboPC, conserve energy and battery consumption by utilizing ECO Manager and back up PCs with the easy to use Buffalo's Backup Utility. DriveStation AV can also back up the internal hard drive of your PS3™. With an extensive list of features and its compact form factor, DriveStation AV is a perfect storage and backup solution for your media center, gaming room and even your office. Backup and Manage Your Files with Buffalo Tools Buffalo Tools is a feature-rich suite of optional software included on many Buffalo DriveStation and MiniStation storage products. Any or all of the following components of Buffalo Tools may be installed on Windows® PCs. TurboPC: Using the high speed RAM of your PC, TurboPC can increase PC file transfer rates by up to 85% over standard USB 2.0 hard drives. TurboPC also includes TurboCopy which provides additional system adjustments to increase performance substantially. Buffalo’s Backup Utility: An easy-to-use and fully featured backup software for Windows PCs and can be used to back up one or multiple computers with a single Buffalo external hard drive. ECO Manager: Energy efficiency tool conserves energy and reduces battery consumption by regulating the power usage of the hard drive, cutting power to the drive during extended periods of inactivity. RAMDISK: A simple utility that allows you to create a RAM disk on your Windows PC which creates a small, but extremely fast environment to work on files in. SecureLock: Windows software that provides complete control of the data encryption on your Buffalo external hard drive, providing password protection and software data encryption. Key Features and Benefits DVR Expansion: Connect to your Cable or Satellite DVR to record and enjoy more of your favorite shows and movies* Media Player Expansion: Connect to a set-top media player to enjoy videos, movies, music, and photos on your TV. Enhance Your PS3™: Expand the capacity of your PlayStation3 for additional storage and playback of your multimedia content and back up its internal hard drive to protect your content Works with PC and Mac®: Connect to your computer for additional storage or backup of your music, photo, video and data files Capacity Gauge: Integrated LED lights indicate available storage for recording favorite shows or storing your music, photo and data files TurboPC for Windows: Increase file transfer rates by up to 85% over competing USB 2.0 hard drives Back Up Your Files: Buffalo's Backup utility for automatic backup of your PC and Time Machine® support for continuous backup of your Mac Stylish and Compact: Contemporary design makes it a perfect fit with your entertainment center Connect and Go: Preformatted hard drive is ready for immediate use with Windows, Mac and PlayStation3 Eco-Minded: DriveStation powers on and off automatically with its host device while the included ECO Manager utility for Windows conserves energy by cutting power to the hard drive during extended periods of inactivity Free 24/7 Tech Support: US-based tech support for life of the product The DriveStation AV storage solution is backed by a one-year limited warranty and lifetime 24/7 US based technical support. What’s in the Box DriveStation AV HD-AVU2, USB cable, AC Adapter, Setup CD-ROM, Quick Start Guide, Warranty Statement *Check compatibility requirements with your cable or satellite service provider.

Most helpful customer reviews 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Great Capacity, Slower than other external HD's By Anthony D The other reviews aren't really providing any advice about the product itself so I'll take a shot at it. The Pros: The hard drive is physically small. It's about 2 inches wider and half inch longer than a VHS tape (what's a VHS tape? Ask your parents). The 500GB hard drive that it's replacing was bigger and very loud when it was being used. This unit is also very quiet, it has a tiny fan installed to help keep it cool,(which is a good thing because it gets warm to the touch when running) but the fan can only really be heard when the drive is powering up or coming out of sleep mode. Otherwise it's virtually soundless. The lights on the front of the unit look cool, the whole blue LED with glossy black plastic look matches my PS3 and my Dell and the lights also roughly indicate how much free space is left on the drive. The drive also seems to be very stable. I've had it and have been using it every day for about 6 months now and have received no errors or read failures. The transfer speed on this thing is also pretty good.I've been using it to back up all of my mp3 files and DVD's and while it's not as fast as my external flash drive,it's not painstakingly slow either when you're backing up files only. The Cons: I gave it 3 stars and not 4 because the first of all read/write/seek times are below average. If you are trying to put something on the hard drive while you're say in a different folder or deleting a file from anywhere else on the drive, or trying to play a song or watch a video that's on the drive it is slow. An external drive is usually slower than an internal drive but it's so bad on this drive that I only use it if I know I'll be backing up files ONLY, or only watching a movie, or listening to music. Basically it sucks at multitasking. The last con is the software it comes with it. The program that changes the amount of time before the drive goes into sleep mode is simple to use and comes in handy.This is the program I use. All of the other programs installed are either rubbish or there are better programs out there to use intstead. Turbo copy actually slowed down my file transfers, and when I tried turbo PC it resulted in my PC giving me strange read/write errors and occasionally freezing so I leave those two programs off all the time. it also comes with Notepad, explorer and paint(really Buffalo?) which have been preinstalled on all PCs since the beginning of time. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. PS3 users NEED THIS.Period **UPDATE** By Mick Schnabel This is gonna be quick and to the point here.If you own a PS3 and want to expand your storage and DON'T want to mess around with software or re-configuring another HD to a specified format (FAT32) Just save the time and energy and GET THIS.MASSIVE storage and boots up when you turn on your PS3.I cant even BEGIN to tell you how much I have stored on this thing.I'm not really a gamer,so I have my ENTIRE music collection(which is roughly 120-150 gb)ALL my pics, and a whole ****load of movies(mostly high def-but under 4gb(unless its seperated into parts w/ the MKV2VOB software)and STLL have about 350gb left. So save the research time,and just get it!Not bad for around $100,I say.Oh,on a side note-this does come w/ its own power source(not through usb) BUT it IS relatively "portable" if need-be.Take it to a friends,plug it into your tv(if you can)or blu-ray player,it works like a giant thumb drive basically,ONLY you need to plug it in for power. **UPDATE** There is actually a BETTER version of this(made by the same company)its called; Buffalo Technology MiniStation Stealth 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive HD-PCT1TU2/BB Its basically the same concept AND PRICE,but smaller and does NOT require external power,its usb powered.(I just ordered one because I'm out of space on my other model!) 11 of 14 people found