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Scope of Support


In addition to the Limited Warranty, your Buffalo product also comes with complimentary US-based technical support to assist with the setup of your unit or to help you with any warranty issues you may have, either via phone, email or live chat. Depending on your product, you can contact our team via phone for the initial setup of your product, and then via email or live chat for the remainder of your product’s warranty.

Product Family Phone Email and Chat
TeraStation™ 3000/3010/3020/5000/5010/5020/7010/3030 3 Years Best effort after warranty period
TeraStation™ 1000 / Essentials 1 Year Warranty Period
TeraStation™ – WS IoT units 3 Years Best effort after warranty period
LinkStation™ 90 Days Warranty Period
DriveStation™ / Ministation™ 90 Days Warranty Period
AirStation™ Routers 90 Days Warranty Period
DD-WRT Routers 90 Days (Hardware) Warranty Period (Hardware)
MediaStation™ / CD Drives 90 Days Warranty Period
Switches 90 Days Warranty Period
All Others 90 Days Warranty Period

For purposes of Buffalo Support, 'best effort' is defined as providing minimum basic support without any guarantee of issue resolution or service speed. 


Installation and configuration support for these TeraStation models will be provided by Buffalo Americas for the entirety of the 3 year warranty via phone, chat, or email (or 5 years for enhanced warranty entitled units).

Support Setup assistance will be provided for the following features (Please note that some features may not be available on all models):

Networking Configuration Install NAS Navigator
RAID Configuration FTP
Create SMB / NFS / AFP Shares Built-in Backup
Connect to Active Directory Replication
Failover Remote Management Service
iSCSI Creation and Connection Print Server (Not Available on 3010/5010 or later models)
UPS Sync Web Access
Firmware Updates Novastor Installation
Initialization / Reset / Restore Email Notification
Replacing Defective Drive Axis Camera Companion Setup

Integration with 3rd party products and advanced configuration of NovaStor will be supported on a ‘best effort’ basis only.

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