BUFFALO DriveStation Quad 4-Bay 16TB (4x4TB) TAA Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.2

- Pre-tested NAS-grade hard drives included ? with RAID pre-configured - Premium desktop attached storage (DAS): ideal for creative professionals, small office users, server backup and consumers - USB 3.2 Gen 1 offers universal connectivity for PC and Mac computers and storage servers - Made in Japan - TAA compliant - 16 TB ? 4 drives included - ships in RAID 5 = 12 TB usable capacity - 3 year wnty with 24/7 North American-based support - PC Compatible plug-and-play. Compatible w/ Mac after formatting. - Schedule automatic backups for your PC or office server with nova backup Buffalo Edition - Time Machine support offers scheduled backups for protecting Mac computers - Hot swap feature allows a user to replace a hard drive in the event of failure without powering down the device

Product description

DriveStation Quad

Easy to Use Storage

Scheduled Backup

Hot Swappable Hard Drives

Buffalo Tools

RAID 0

RAID 1

RAID 5

RAID 10

Buffalo Americas is a leading provider of easy-to-use technology solutions and reliable pre- and post-sales help with over 45 years in existence.

We build top-quality storage, networking, and other technology-related solutions that simplify your experience and deliver a solid return on your investment.

Buffalo's DriveStation Quad is a 4-drive, RAID enabled USB 3.2 Gen 1 storage solution ideal for small servers, creative professionals, offices and consumers who need redundant and high-performance external storage.

Equipped with four optimized hard drives, DriveStation Quad features the redundancy and performance required for demanding professional and server applications.

With terabytes of storage, DriveStation Quad provides a reliable, easy to use storage solution to quickly expand the capacity of your PC and Mac computers with universal USB 3.2 Gen 1 plug-and-play.

DriveStation Quad is perfect for backing up your important files. It features eleven licenses of NovaBACKUP Buffalo Edition for Windows PCs and servers (one server and ten workstations) and Time Machine support for backing up Mac computers.

DriveStation Quad's hot swap feature allows a user to replace a hard drive in the event of failure without powering down the device.

Simply remove the defective drive, insert the new drive and the data rebuilds while still being available to clients on the network with zero downtime.

Buffalo Tools is a feature-rich suite of optional software included on the Buffalo DriveStation Quad.

Any or all of the following components of Buffalo Tools may be installed on Windows PCs: Buffalo's Backup Utility, TurboPC, eco Manager, and SecureLock.

DriveStation Quad provides users the flexibility to easily maximize capacity or protect their data using RAID redundancy.

RAID 0 combines all drives into a single array offering maximum storage capacity with no redundancy.

DriveStation Quad provides users the flexibility to easily maximize capacity or protect their data using RAID redundancy.

RAID 1 mirrors the four drives, creating an exact copy of data on each drive for fault tolerance.

DriveStation Quad provides users the flexibility to easily maximize capacity or protect their data using RAID redundancy.

RAID 5 stripes the data across all four drives, interspersing parity data to provide an efficient blend of fault tolerance and storage capacity.

DriveStation Quad provides users the flexibility to easily maximize capacity or protect their data using RAID redundancy.

RAID 10 mirrors two sets of hard drives and combines them into a single array, striping data across all mirrored sets for fault tolerance and increased performance.

RAID 0

RAID 1

RAID 5

RAID 10