Buffalo's MiniStation USB Hard Drive offers a compact, lightweight and portable storage solution for all. The MiniStation securely protects your data from prying eyes through hardware encryption and has excellent shock protection against those accidental knocks. The MiniStation comes complete with the Buffalo Tools suite of complimentary software that offers enhancements such as TurboPC and Turbo Copy which help to increase file transfer and copy performance by up to 2x faster compared to standard USB2.0 portable hard drives, whilst Buffalo Backup software offers easy data backup and restore solutions.
Buffalo Technology was founded in 1975 by Makoto Maki and was first started as a family business called Melco. Buffalo was originally founded as an audio equipment manufacturer in 1981. Buffalo now mostly manufactures RAM products, flash memory CD-ROM/DVD-RW drives, hard disks, and other computer components including CPU accelerators. Buffalo currently have a work force of 824 staff with a total revenue of US$1.5 billion. Buffalo's main competitors are: Seagate, Western Digital, Iomega, LaCie and Fabrik.