D-Link DNS-323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure

D-Link DNS-323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure | Great speed, quiet - overall VERY Pleased

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The D-Link DNS-323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure, when used with internal SATA drives, enables you to share documents, files, and digital media such as music, photos, and video with everyone on the home or office network. Remotely accessing files through the Internet is also possible with the built-in FTP server. Whether you are allowing access locally or over the Internet, keep data safe by only giving rights to specific users or groups. When configuring the DNS-323, you can create users and groups and assign them to folders with either read or read/write permissions. This is ideal for an office environment with employee-specific sensitive data or for the home where you can ensure your children will only have access to age appropriate material.

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The perfect server

For a while now I have had several directories shared on my Mandriva Linux powered desktop. They worked well and could be accessed in-house by any gadget that I wished to use to interact with it. However that machine pulls ALOT of electricity and must be left on all the time. I just didn't want to run a machine that complex to share music and movies and documents.

Then I found the links">DNS-323 NAS and I hoped it was the answer I had been looking for. It was. This is a gadget you won't out grow for years and years. How many gadgets can you say that about? It does a job and does it well.

It's a little smaller than a half-gallon of ice cream. The square cardboard container kind. It holds two of your hard drives - whatever you have on hand, or whatever you want to buy. I nearly put two of my largest older hard drives in this NAS but decided to splurge and buy two Western Digital Caviar 1TB "green" drives which promise to use less energy. Good thing too because this gadget uses the newer SATA interface and my old drives were IDE drives. Wouldn't have worked at all.

Mine runs cool as a cucumber. Nearly silent when it is working hard. I was moving files from three computers to it simultaneously and it just got the job done plenty fast. It's gigabit network interface is faster than any of my other network equipment so it didn't even have to work up a sweat. Once for a minute or two I heard the fan come on and then it tapered back off. When not in use the hard drives go to sleep as well and save energy which also makes me happy. I have several external drive enclosures and this always has been a shortcoming to me. I want to save energy and have the lower noise levels. It is as quiet as the hard drives you put into it. If you put two noisy hard drives into it, you'll get plenty to hear with both drives running. My hard drives are nearly silent and this is an important purchase consideration when shopping for drives.

I'm using mine in the RAID 1 mode where whatever information I store to it is mirrored on both hard drives. That means if one drive croaks, then my data is safe on the other drive.

If hard drives make a big leap someday to ~5TB capacities then I'll likely be able to put those new drives into the then old DNS-323 and keep on working.

It's internal software is Linux based which makes me, a big fan of Linux, very happy. I tested the DNS-323 with Win98, WinXP, Mac OSX, Mandriva Linux 2007/2008, a Nokia N810 and a PalmPilot TX. All were just happy with the DNS-323. The software included with the DNS-323 is Windows-only but really you can just interact with it via the Web-interface through any browser. I tested it with Safari, Konquerer (Linux), Epiphany (Linux), Seamonkey (linux and Win), Firefox (Win and Linux), Opera (Win and Linux), and the Nokia Maemo Linux browser. I did not check it with Internet Explorer b/c I refuse to use that browser but I'm sure it works too.

IF somehow I out grow this NAS I'll purchase another one just like it. I'll put it side-by-side with this current one. My current D-Link wireless router has room for 3 more. :)

Am also considering purchasing one for my workplace. We could use a departmental server and this NAS would be great.

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Great speed, quiet - overall VERY Pleased

I purchased this along with 2 X Seagate ST31000340AS 1TB Barracuda Sata 7200 Rpm 32MB Cache 8.5MS Hard Drive
to create a 1TB Mirrored system.
Wow- am I impressed with the speed. Maybe I was used to my old NAS that was that slow, but I am really impressed with the speed.

Set up was really easy, but when I was copying 400 Gig to it- it got HOT. I kept a fan on it over night to make sure it did not to hot. Normal operation, everything seems nice and cool. We will have to see how time goes on.

Overall - this is a great system and met my needs perfectly.

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I love this thing!

This is a great backup/redundancy device. I bought this to backup my 100 gigs of photos with redundancy (RAID 1). The startup is quite fast. You can hear the drives spin up. Sharing this on the network using the D-Link DIR-625 was a breeze to setup. The software for the drive is excellent. The price was great too. I was looking at many different NAS devices, and the DNS-323 gives you the best with the lowest cost.

I just want to praise Amazon's customer service. My first unit arrived DOA. They replaced it with no questions asked. The second one came in about 3 days, and it works beautifully!

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NAS, SATA

D-Link DNS-323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure A little slow coming out of sleep, but fairly reliable.

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