The Buffalo Ministation is a small, compact portable hard drive which, as you can deduce from its name, is pretty shock resistant too. Although I myself have never dropped it, from the outside it does look pretty sturdy and would survive being handled about by someone who's less than careful. By the standards of today, it holds a fairly small and sad amount of data. After all, these days for a fairly cheap price we can get 750GB and 1TB Ext HDDs. The Ministation came in various sizes, including the 40Gb which I am reviewing now. While not a fantastic amount of space, 40 gigabytes is enough for any domestic situation, and incredibly useful for business ...  Read the complete review