| D-Link 4-Bay Network Attached Storage Enclosure DNS-343 | 
| Brand: D-Link
Category: CE
Department: Computer
List Price: $435.99
Buy New: $399.00
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You Save: $36.99 (8%)
New (32) from $399.00
Seller: goHardDrive
Rating:  12 reviews
Format: CD
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 12
Dimensions (in): 12.5 x 11 x 11
nv:Hot-Swap Bays: 4
Number Of Hard Drives Bays: 4
Networking Standards: IEEE 802.3u 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet
Networking Standards: IEEE 802.3 10Base-T Ethernet
Networking Standards: IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet
MPN: DNS-343
Model: DNS-343
UPC: 102646282335
EAN: 0102646282335
ASIN: B0019VSU88
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Perfect way to store, share and safeguard documents, music, videos and photos | | • | Easily insert up to four 3.5" SATA hard drives without using tools | | • | Protect important files with RAID 1 or RAID 5 data redundancy | | • | Access stored files over the Internet | | • | USB port can act as a print server port |
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Product Description
NAS ENCLOSURE 4BAY ENCLSASA RAID 0/1/5 JBOD USB
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 12
 Good product July 13, 2010
Dino Leonetti
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have bought 2 of these and they work without problems... both have 4x Seagate 1.5TB 7200.11, each NAS has a single partition of RAID5. The NAS shuts down the drives when idle, this is very good but I guess all NAS do this.
The speed is not very high while transfering files to them (generally 12MB/s), but for me the most important is streaming videos at a good reasonable speed, even blu ray at 1080p stored there works without problems through a gigabit network.
One reviewer said he could not see the drive with problems in the array and this is not right. The external display shows an error message and indicates which drive has problems. Also, the web interface can test each drive individually (even when configured in a RAID5 array). There's both a log test and a quick test. One of the drives I bought was not functioning correctly, and the quick test pointed the bay with the erratic drive (btw, Seagate exchanged the drive without any delay).
I would give it 4 stars because it is just an average (good) product, but I think it deserves an additional star because, in my opinion, many reviewers were not fair and did not have a justifiable reason to give it one star.
Rocks if you are a linux user June 14, 2010
Steven Toth (Seattle, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this without too much research and have spent a lot of time with it to make it sing for me. After a lot of work, I've gotten it to a place where I love this thing. Not too expensive and works great for what I need it to do. Which for me was hold a lot of storage (4 drives), be able to use Time Machine on my Macs (even over wireless), and stream Movies to my ps3.
Pluses:
+ Hackable to the extreme, if you have a cross-compiler then you can do pretty much anything with it. Just install funplug.
+ Low noise, low heat generation.
+ Just slightly larger then your hard drives.
+ Supports enough RAID to give you some peace that your data won't vaporize.
Minuses:
- Doesn't work very well out of the box. I spend probably 40-50 hours to get it to the state where it is now for me which allows it to be accessed like a normal mac share, and stream all my videos I've transcoded from it to my PS3.
- Needs more ram/processor, I'm definitively limited by its slow processor and 128MB of ram. Though I can still get good transfer rates out of it.
- You have to install all the same size drives at one time since it only supports normal raid options. When you upgrade you have to reconfigure your array and that means either having 2 arrays or blowing away your current setup during an upgrade and restoring.
Overall: I still love it, as long as you want to spend the time to make it work for you and know what you want from it then it's great. Yes it is a pain to get setup,
After 2 months it's still solid May 26, 2010
SamIAm (Raleigh, NC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I waited for a while before sharing my opinion because I've had a couple other NAS boxes that seemed great out of the box but didn't turn out well after a bit of use.
- It's very quick. I haven't done any formal tests but I copy large video files back and forth and I'm quite happy with the speed.
- Extremely stable. The only time I've had to reboot was when I updated firmware.
- Good solid hardware. Although I agree with another reviewer that the face comes off too easily. But like him I keep it in a closet so I never touch it.
- I'm very happy it doesn't come with any drives. I already owned 3 500GB drives and set it up for RAID 5. If you buy one with pre-installed drives that don't match the size you already have you either can't build a RAID 5 config or you end up not utilizing some space since drives in the array need to be provisioned the same size.
- UPS interface that automatically recognized the APC 350 that I connected it to. It monitors the battery life left and it's nice to know that it can shut itself down gracefully if the power goes out.
- The very best feature: Extensibility! I wasn't initially too happy with performance when using it from a Mac. But I installed AFP using fun plug ([...]) and it totally rocks! It shows up in Finder as an Apple server and it even works with Time Machine. Fun plug is not for the GUI dependent - you must be comfortable at a command line to install it. There are other extensions as well.
We have two Mac Books and two Windows laptops and all are backing up to the DNS without a hitch.
Maybe my expectations were set low because of my previous NAS experiences, but but I have to give it an overall 5 start rating. Especially for the price.
 A Disaster November 10, 2009
Ludwig (Milford, New Hampshire)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought the DNS-343 on the strength of my generally good experience with the DNS-323. Unfortunately, the DNS 343 using EXT3 in a RAID5 turns out to be extremely unreliable. Any error in copying data to the device (e.g. network interruption, path too deep for its filesytem) caused the box to go into a busy state in which it would respond neither to the http based manager or the system halt button, at which point the only thing to do to get it out of the busy state was to pull the plug. On restart it would start resynchronizing the RAID array (despite the fact that auto resynch was disabled!). Here's a flash message for the developers at D-Link: rebuilding the disk array is not what journaling file systems are about! Given that the D-Link people don't seem to understand that, the forced resynchs took 24+ hours each & I've spent more time during my brief ownership of the device rebuilding the array than I have in using the box. This thing is a mess & is going in the trash tomorrow. Hello NetGear!
 Very good NAS solution if you need a simple way to store lots of data July 8, 2009
buru buru piggu (New York, NY USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is my third D-Link NAS. I bought a DNS-323 one year ago and it has been on ever since, serving up files reliably to my PC/Mac home network, downloading torrents, and streaming videos to my PS3/XBOX 360 (after installing Twonky Media Server). Based on my mostly positive experience with D-link products and price-to-features ratio, I decided to stick with the brand. I had wasted money on a Galaxy Metal Gear NAS, and read mostly lukewarm reviews for Netgear, Iomega, Linksys, and other makers. Other NAS devices like the DLNA-enabled Buffalo Technology LinkStation Live were attractive, but their price point or storage capacity was not. I need a large number of bays to create a centralized media server.
When I outgrew the DNS-323, I bought a DNS321 2-bay when I really should have applied that $130 toward this 4-bay product instead. I wanted to consolidate the half dozen 1 TB external drives I had sitting around and network them so I didn't have to keep plugging and unplugging USB cables when I wanted to retrieve files. My home network is heterogeneous and I also needed the ability to write large files (4 GB+) to the drives. FAT32 is the only mutually writable format across XP and Mac, but it has a 4 GB filesize limit, making it impractical for my movie storage needs. The D-Link uses a Linux file system (ext2 or ext3, your choice), so filesize concerns are now gone.
I've had this product for a week, and so far so good. The device can be configured from any web browser, so you don't need the CD (which is a Windows-only configuration app). I have 1 TB Hitachi and WD drives inside. Build quality is solid (made of thick aluminum). It's a brick of a device and looks quite durable.
For the price, I am not expecting world class security and many bells and whistles. I just need it for storing my personal files and media on my home network, and stream them, and for that, it works to my satisfaction. The iTunes server works very nicely. For file transfers, I FTP to it and do all my copying that way. For some reason, the Mac is a lot faster (20MB/sec) than copying from XP (10MB/sec). Vista is the worse, and I usually get 5MB/sec.
It would've been really great for D-link to include BitTorrent support for this, like the DNS-323. Maybe in a future firmware update.
All in all, I'm quite happy with this product. I don't place heavy expectations on it and don't demand $1,500 server performance from a $370 device. It was the cheapest 4-bay NAS I could find for the features I wanted and gives great overall performance for the price. You can install telnet on it (look for Fonz's funplug) and open the device up to more hacking if you are so inclined.
Will update this review as I use the device more.
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