How easy is the buffalo linkstation to use with my mac?

i'm thinking of buying a buffalo terastation to add more capacity to my system. i would connect it to my router and then the mac would probably access it wirelessly, although i could wire it together. how easy is it to access something like a buffalo terastation from my mac? does anyone know how i do it? will i be able to access movie files and itunes libraries from there if i put them on the terastation. is it quick or will i find it really slow? do i access the files from a finder window just like i would with files on my mac harddrive?
i'm fairly new to macs and although i understand how network attached storage works in principle i've never tried it.
thanks.

It should be a pretty straightforward hookup. It looks like it would connect through an SMB share, much like how you would connect to a PC on the same network. It is what I use to connect to my PC from my iMac through my Netgear router.
I have heard mixed things about NAS units. They are very expensive per gigabyte and often do not perform very well speed-wise. If you are looking to use this to store video, I think you will be dissappointed.
I have wanted to do something like this myself. I have looked into these as well as single NAS drives and even using a NAS device that allows several plain USB drives to be used as NAS. All of these options have tradeoffs and none are ideal.
One thing you want to look out for is that not all network drives are NAS. Some use proprietary drive formats that will not work with your Mac, like the Netgear SC101. Make sure that you get one that supports an open drive format - a Linux file system.
So far, the most promising possibility (for me) seems to be building a cheap PC, get some ATA drives on sale and throw Linux on it to use it as a server. The cost would be less, but support would be hard to come by
You can get 400GB drives on sale for $160-ish, add a case for $50, a low-end CPU and motherboard for $90-ish, 512MB RAM for $40, a CD drive for $30, and a KB/mouse for $30. If you have any of that stuff around - great.
I am at a point where I have "paralysis by analysis." I do not know what to do since there are so many tradeoffs.
I do have a lot of PC parts lying around, so that might be the way for me to go.
Sorry to prattle on, but I wanted to share some options.

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