Buffalo Kuro-box Pro

Main board silkscreened with "MADE IN JAPAN" and "MVLS2EG-CA",
 * PCIe and SATA ports are on sub-board silkscreened with
 * "LSGLSUB-CA" and "MADE IN CHINA".

Reviews
Kuro Box on SmallNetBuilder

Wikis

 * Kuro-box on Wikipedia
 * Debian on Kuro-box


 * Buffalo on NAS-Central Wiki (alternative firmware)
 * Category:KuroboxPro • KuroboxPro (archived)

Hardware Specifications

 * Kurobox PRO


 * CPU: Marvell 88F5182 @400MHz
 * Flash: 256MB (NAND), 256KB ROM (NOR)
 * RAM: 128MB SDRAM (DDR2)
 * Interface: 1x PCI Express X1, 1x SATA,
 * Pin Header: UART x1, GPIO x2, I2C x1


 * USB Ports: 2x USB 2.0 (Type A)
 * Ethernet Controller: 1x GbE (RJ-45)
 * IDE Host Controller: SATA (Marvell)
 * Internal Bay: 1x 3.5” SATA HDD bay (int. fan)
 * Power supply: Input: AC ~110V (internal)
 * Output: DC 5V/1.5A, 12V/1.5A (max. 25W)


 * Case: 60mm (W) x 163.6mm (H) x 215.5mm (D)

Kuro Box
The Kuro Box is the name for a series of PowerPC and ARM processor
 * based computers intended for use as a network-attached storage device.

The original Kuro Box was made from spare hardware components
 * the manufacturer had from the Linkstation.

Recent versions of the Kuro Box use later Linkstation hardware
 * or hardware very similar to the one of the Linkstation.

All Kuro Box versions are provided without a Hard Drive.

The case has the same physical dimensions and shape as the LinkStation, but it is black
 * in color and has the Kanji symbols for Kuro Box in silver lettering on the side panel.

It has an internal Parallel ATA or SATA interface for a user supplied hard drive
 * (as the device does not come with one).

The product was designed to accept a Linux distribution, several have been
 * ported to it by various user groups in both the USA/Europe and Japan.

It is sold by Buffalo Technology/Melco.

CPU

 * The Kurobox and the Kurobox HG use a Motorola MPC8241 integrated processor.
 * This chip uses a MPC603e processor core. The standard Kurobox processor
 * is rated at 200MHz, while the Kurobox HG processor is rated at 266MHz.


 * Features


 * Motorola (Freescale Semiconductor) MPC8241
 * • The MPC8241 is advertised as having:
 * High-performance, superscalar PowerPC processor core
 * Floating-point unit, integer, load/store,
 * system register and branch processing unit
 * 16K instruction cache, 16K data cache
 * Lockable portion of L1 cache
 * Dynamic power management
 * Software-compatible with PowerPC processors