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Project #1 – Revitalizing Buffalo LS-WXL – Part 6

1.6) Mount NAS at Raspberry Pi Dear future Kenny, to mix things up a little bit, I’m not going to link to an external source. I’m going to provide decent […]

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Project #1 – Revitalizing Buffalo LS-WXL – Part 5

1.5) Force SMB v2.0 Future Kenny, you are in luck, this article explains how to force SMB to use version 2.0. Why? Why do you want to do this? SMB […]

Project #1 – Revitalizing Buffalo LS-WXL – Part 4

1.4) Create volumes and users using web gui Future Kenny, I’m going to be a d*ck and just give you another RTFM. Page 36 on the official Buffalo manual. This […]

Project #1 – Revitalizing Buffalo LS-WXL – Part 3

1.3) Create raid1 using web gui Raid 1 means we’ll have a couple of disks mirroring each other. It isn’t a great backup solution but again, I don’t store critical […]

Project #1 – Revitalizing Buffalo LS-WXL – Part 2

1.2) Get root access So, we were able to unbrick the NAS, now lets get root access so we can improve resource usage on the box. Warning! I’m not responsible […]

Project #1 – Revitalizing Buffalo LS-WXL – Part 1

1.1) Re-flashing with original firmware First step to unbrick the NAS was to re-flash with original firmware. To do this we have to use TFTP to upload a bootloader to […]

Buffalo LS-WXL: Genesis

Dear future Kenny, In 2012 I stumbled across a great opportunity at an online store. A NAS sporting 6TB (a couple of 3TB Seagate Barracudas) going for a very friendly […]