Unreliable/unable to recover from hard drive failure The D-Link DNS-323 is a dual SATA enclosure, boasting an embedded Linux running on a Marvel board with an ARM5 processor. You put in the drives, and it configures them using the software raid stack from its embedded Linux. It has gigabit ethernet, and as NAS functionality goes, it only supports SMB shares. That's about where the coolness ends - with the specs. Even though it runs Linux, it is not capable of serving NFS. Even though it runs Linux, it is not capable of using ext3. But I am getting...
[D-Link DNS-323 DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure NAS review by C. Gafton can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0  |
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| Reviewed by: | C. Gafton | | Review Date: | 03/25/2008 | | User Location: | CT, USA | | Review From: | User Review |  |  |
100% (14 of 14) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Great NAS solution for Mac-based home I bought one and went ahead and bought another.
Setup was incredibly easy. Plug SATA drives in, update firmware, get IP address, start copying over files.
This NAS works great on my mix network of Mac desktops and laptops -- both wired and wireless. The iTunes server works great (only drawback being the lack of playlist creation and manual refresh of the listing when adding new music), and with an Apple AirPort Express with Air Tunes (M9470LL/A), you can just pipe your NA...
[D-Link DNS-323 DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure NAS review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 09/05/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
100% (13 of 13) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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The little NAS that could I needed a network storage, and I wanted some degree of user-extensibility (hackable). After much research, DNS-323 became an obvious choice, at least based on specification, figures, reviews and user reports. The budget was under $200, and it's incredible how expensive NAS boxes are in general.
Here are some models I considered and why they didn't make the cut:
Linksys Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives NSLU2 an amazingly flexible NAS that's also cheap. It has a very large and...
[D-Link DNS-323 DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure NAS review by Y. Chang "ciaconne" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Y. Chang "ciaconne" | | Review Date: | 12/08/2007 | | User Location: | Mamaroneck, NY | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
98% (168 of 171) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Fast, cheap, silent NAS. New firmware fixes problems, I currently have this working with a 400GB Samsung Spinpoint drive. It shows fast transfers (see tests against other NASs at tomshardware site), near silent operation, and is relatively cheap. The problem with transfers of directories with large number of files has been fixed in firmware 1.02 (available 12/18). I tested it today with a 8,000 file directory which had previously not copied fully, it now copies to the dns323 perfectly. The spinpoint drives are great companions to this NAS, I just o...
[D-Link DNS-323 DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure NAS review by C. Carroll can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | C. Carroll | | Review Date: | 12/18/2006 | | User Location: | Orleans, CA USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
94% (18 of 19) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Running non-stop for 5 months.. **** Updated Review 5/14/07 *****
I received a new unit from Amazon (fairly quickly I might add), and everything is up and working. It was indeed a bad unit. The unit has been working non-stop for 5+ months now and no complaint. I've even upgraded the firmware once to fix the RAID performance on it and it didn't even require me to wipe my data. It seems the new firmware revs are getting better and better. I would highly recommend this now after having it up and running for so long.
[D-Link DNS-323 DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure NAS review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 4.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 12/31/2006 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
93% (14 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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A young product, but works very well. It's a new product, and surely firmware updates will make it more stable as time goes on. Now on v1.02. But overall, I've had a great time with this, and few problems other than the normal Windows network browsing issues.
I am now running backups from three systems to this NAS without any issues (Mac, Linux, and XP). The speed is very good on gigabit ethernet.
Power management works well - the disks spin down after 5 minutes of inactivity, and it's more economical than runn...
[D-Link DNS-323 DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure NAS review by D. Sanders can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | D. Sanders | | Review Date: | 12/31/2006 | | User Location: | Irvine, CA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
92% (25 of 27) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Awesome NAS For Your Home or Small Office When looking for a NAS drive for my home network, simplicity and redundancy were my primary needs. The D-Link DNS-323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure is the perfect solution. Although the drive comes with many features and abilities, RAID 1 mirroring (same data is written to both drives for data backup) was the big selling point for me. I have been using a Buffalo LinkStation for the past couple of years, but I have been afraid of a drive failure and so I backed it up on an external USB drive...
[D-Link DNS-323 DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure NAS review by M. Pickering can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 10.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | M. Pickering | | Review Date: | 01/12/2008 | | User Location: | MI, USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
91% (11 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Good SATA Drive Enclosure One of the few of these type of items available on the market. I bought it with great trepidation after reading all the reviews. I had received some free drives from Newegg (Seagate) and needed to house them. This was a no brainer set up. The utility found it immediately without me having to mess around with turning virus protection or firewalls off. (XP pro SP2). The firmware was one rev prior so I updated it - absolutely smooth as silk. Reformatted the drives. I chose the RAID 1 option and ext...
[D-Link DNS-323 DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure NAS review can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 8.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | | | Review Date: | 01/24/2007 | | User Location: | | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
90% (18 of 20) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Why you should not buy this product Based upon its specifications and price, this product seems like a great deal. And if you just need to share hard drives over your network without any security or passwords, it seem to work very well.
Here's why I'm returning mine.
1. Although the device is advertised as supporting the EXT3 file format (which is more secure than EXT2), D-link's original firmware apparently had many, many problems with EXT3, so Dlink updated the firmware. Did they re-write the firmware ...
[D-Link DNS-323 DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure NAS review by Martin Anderson "Martin" can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Martin Anderson "Martin" | | Review Date: | 10/02/2007 | | User Location: | Santa Ana, CA United States | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
84% (202 of 239) Users Found This Review Helpful |
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Mac user? Forget it! But I'd be hard pressed to recommend for Windows either. First, it didn't work with my Seagate 400GB drive -- and although this sort of problem may be addressed in firmware updates, please be aware that without a functioning drive you can't update the firmware. Big chicken and the egg problem :(
As mentioned in other reviews, Firefox doesn't work to configure the device. I want to add that in fact no browser other than Win IE works during the critical formatting step. Also no other browser works for setting up users and groups.
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[D-Link DNS-323 DNS 323 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure NAS review by Timothy B. Martin can be read at Amazon.com] | | Amazon.com Rating: 2.0 |
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| Reviewed by: | Timothy B. Martin | | Review Date: | 12/15/2006 | | User Location: | Sunnyvale, CA USA | | Review From: | User Review | | | |
80% (12 of 15) Users Found This Review Helpful |