I recently got a LinkStation Pro Duo 1TB for backups at work - its very slow. A Duron based box (1Ghz) with 2, 3-4 year old IDE disk's transfers data nearly twice as fast over gigabit.

I can't get it to store timestamp's properly either.

Although cheap, I would avoid Buffalo NAS boxes.

I work for a small company, I get to see what happens when the marketing goes well.

We send out monthly HTML news letters - they work, we get bussiness. We also send out around 400,000 double sided flyers each year (yes 'junk' mail) and they work very well.

This is marketing, it works, thats why it's done that way.