Buffalo MiniStation 1TB - External HDD, Black

With Buffalo’s Dynamic Random-Access Memory portable hard drive users no longer have to choose between speed and capacity; the HD-PGDU3 series offers both! Buffalo’s DDR3 hard drives combine the best of solid state drives – fast speed – with the best of standard hard drives – affordable large capacities.The HD-PGDU3 is equipped with Buffalo’s DDR3 Technology and has an extra-large 1GB cache capable of extremely fast data transfer speeds. The cache works as a buffer during read and write operations allowing the MiniStation™ to optimise its speed and offer up to 400MB/s write speed and up to 300 MB/s read speed. Ready to copy 1,000 photos? You’ll be done in about 3.5 seconds – about 2.3 times faster than a standard USB 3.0 hard drive!

Buffalo’s portable DDR is sleek and high-design minded, including subtle LEDs which indicate the drive’s cache use and power status. Buffalo’s DDR3 MiniStation™ transfers larger amounts of data fast and reliably and is an excellent choice for video, audio, and graphics professionals, business users, or anyone on-the-go. The HD-PGDU3 series is available in 500GB or 1TB capacities.

The HD-PGDU3 is equipped with Buffalo’s DDR3 Technology and has an extra-large 1GB cache capable of extremely fast data transfer speeds. The cache works as a buffer during read and write operations allowing the MiniStation™ to optimise its speed and offer up to 400MB/s write speed and up to 300 MB/s read speed. Ready to copy 1,000 photos? You’ll be done in about 3.5 seconds – about 2.3 times faster than a standard USB 3.0 hard drive!

Buffalo’s DDR3 hard drives combine the best of solid state drives – fast speed – with the best of standard hard drives – affordable large capacities. The HD-PGDU3 is equipped with Buffalo’s DDR3 Technology and has an extra-large 1GB cache capable of extremely fast data transfer speeds.

Buffalo’s DRAM cache technology – DDR3 plus 1GB cache – delivers write speeds of up to 400 MBs

1,000 photos with a total of 800 MB write in approximately 3.5 seconds
3,000 photos with a total of 800 MB write in approximately 13.1 seconds

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.

Buffalo's Backup Utility is a featured backup software for Windows PCs and can be used to back up one or multiple computers with a single Buffalo external hard drive. RAMDISK is 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. TurboPC EX enhances the performance of Buffalo’s TurboPC by boosting data transfer and data copy speeds; thus, making file saving, copying, and transferring even fast.