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Comparison Charts

LinkStation™ Comparison Chart

Feature
(Mouse over a feature for description)
LinkStation Mini™
LinkStation Live™ LS-CHL
LinkStation Pro Duo™
LinkStation Pro™ LS-XHL
LinkStation™ Quad
High Performance Architecture High speed CPU and RAM provide faster network performance       Yes  
File Sharing over Network Easily store, back up and share all your data over network Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Built-in FTP Server Access your LinkStation’s files via FTP (Files Transfer Protocol) over the Internet Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Web Access Feature
Access and share your files from any web browser
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Memeo™ AutoBackup Software included Easy to use Memeo™ backup software for automatic backups on Windows® PCs included Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
LinkStation to LinkStation Backup Additional LinkStations can be stacked for extra backup and storage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Gigabit Ethernet Networking Supports high-speed 10/100/1000Mbps LAN connections Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BitTorrent Client For all of your file sharing needs   Yes   Yes Yes
Built-in USB Print Server
Connect to a USB Printer so that all computers on your network can share one printer
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

DLNA™ CERTIFIED Media Server

For multimedia streaming to any DLNA™ CERTIFIED Media Player, such as the LinkTheater™ Wireless A&G Media Player
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Active Directory Support
Works as a client member in an Active Directory domain by utilizing the domain users and groups
Yes   Yes    

SATA Hard Drive

Serial ATA Hard Drive for faster and reliable data transfer

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Email Alerts Email notifications of the LinkStation's activity, status and critical system errors Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
iTunes Server Automatically makes the LinkStation available as a content source in your iTunes software Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Time Machine™ Functionality   Yes   Yes Yes
USB 2.0 Port
Expand storage by adding a USB 2.0 hard drive
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RAID-0 Mode One massive, high performance network share in a striped RAID-0 array Yes   Yes   Yes
RAID-1 Mode (Mirroring) A set of two drives are separately mirrored to another set of two drives Yes   Yes   Yes
RAID-5 Mode All 4 drives arrayed into a one massive network share with parity (Factory default)          Yes
RAID-10 Mode
One striped set of mirrors
        Yes
 

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