Buffalo Reveals TeraStation III WSS NAS

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The storage experts at Buffalo have shown off their latest creation, the new TeraStation III network-attached-storage unit. The device will ship with up to 4TB of storage, and it’ll have support for all the major network application protocols. Needless to say, it’s being aimed at the enterprise market.

The new TeraStation III is built on Buffalo’s new x86 hardware platform and has its own 32-bit processor onboard, although Buffalo has been quiet about the specifics of the internals of their NAS. Getting right down to it, the TeraStation III has four quick-swappable SATA hard drive ports, a “heavy duty” power supply and RAID technology built-in.

For security and backups, the TerraStation III uses Microsoft’s SMB network apps protocol and runs Windows Storage Server 2003. The drives will be formatted in Microsoft’s NTFS file system, as well. Buffalo says in their press release that NTFS provides “extremely granular file and folder permissions“, which they feel will appeal to their customers.

Buffalo picked Windows Storage Server 2003 because of it’s filed with features, tons of developer support, and it’s also easy to setup file sharing on the OS. However, not everybody cares to use Windows Storage Server 2003, and Buffalo also has got you covered. The TeraStation III will also include support for other network apps protocols like NFS, AppleTalk and Netware.

As you can imagine, such a high-end WSS NAS isn’t going to be cheap. Buffalo will be selling them for $1,599 with 2TB included or for $1,999 with 4TB included.