Buffalo Inc is one of the current 14 subsidiaries of MELCO (the name stands for Maki Engineering Laboratory Company) Holdings Inc, a family business that was founded by Makoto Maki. Buffalo Inc first made its name in the computer peripheral market in 1981 when it produced an EEPROM writer. It was initially founded as an audio equipment manufacturer and its name was derived from the name for the American Bison and one of the company’s first products, which was a printer buffer.
Buffalo Products
Buffalo Network Storage
Buffalo Inc produces Network Attached Storages which are designed to provide a central place to store and share data over a network. Among some of its current series available include TeraStation and LinkStation.
Buffalo External Drives
Buffalo also produces external hard disk drives which allow you to add storage to your computer, as well as secure external backup and storage. Among the series available include DriveStation, MiniStation, and MicroStation. Besides that Buffalo also produces optical storage devices including an external 8x Blu-ray drive and a portable DVD drive.
Buffalo Wireless
Buffalo also provides wireless solutions including the following series; Wireless-N Nfiniti Dual Band, Wireless-N Nfiniti, Wireless-G MIMO Performance, Wireless-G 125 High Speed and Wireless-G. Not only that, Buffalo also produces related wireless accessories.
Buffalo Multimedia
Bufallo produces LinkTheater entertainment device that seamlessly integrates with your stereo components and TV in streaming multimedia from a Windows PC, a LinkStation Live, a LinkStation Quad, a TeraStation Live, a USB storage device or any DLNA media server device.
Buffalo Memory
Buffalo produces both DIMM and SODIMM type system memories. It also produces FireStix which allows for superior performance in gaming and over-clocking environments.