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D-Link 4-Bay Network Attached Storage Enclosure DNS-343 | 
| Brand: D-Link
Category: CE
List Price: $435.99
Buy New: $329.95
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Seller: Elexical Systems
Rating:  9 reviews
Format: CD
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10.2
Dimensions (in): 12.5 x 11 x 11
MPN: DNS-343
Model: DNS-343
UPC: 790069313745
EAN: 0790069313745
ASIN: B0019VSU88
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
This Network Storage Enclosure provides small businesses with a central network point to store, share and back up valuable files. With 5 hard drive modes available including RAID0/1/5 and Active Directory support, this enclosure is ideal for server deployment in offices.The DNS-343 accommodates up to four 3.5" SATA hard drives of any capacity (HD not included). Tools or cables are not required for setup. Simply slide the front cover, insert the drives and slide the front cover back.The DNS-343 includes a USB port, for print server functionality or the monitoring of an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) unit. It features Gigabit Ethernet connectivity with support for Jumbo frames. Its smart fans adopt a lower speed when the temperature drops below 49 ?C; the drives are also able to enter a hibernation state. A built-in OLED screen updates you on drive quotes, server status, and other integral system information in real time.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 9
 A Disaster November 10, 2009
Ludwig (Milford, New Hampshire)
2 out of 4 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)
5 out of 6 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.
Not For Data Critical Application! February 10, 2009
Max Etheart (Silver Spring, MD USA)
16 out of 24 found this review helpful
First some important features that were over looked in the design of this NAS.
1. The is no way to determine which drive in the raid needs to be replaced. No LED for each drive (as most systems have), no single disc testing in the software.
2. NOT hot swappable
3. No Ability to create specific shares. If you use RAID 5, you get a single raid volume whether that is what you want or not.
Tech support: I am no techie but it's scary when level 1 and level 2 support technician don't know a RAID array from a can of insectiside.
Limited OS support, extremely limited documentation January 15, 2009
J. Rassen
4 out of 19 found this review helpful
The DLink DNS-343 can only be configured with a Windows computer, and access to the files is only supported via Windows or Mac. Linux or other Unix users are totally out of luck. These OS requirements are mentioned nowhere in the documentation or the product specifications. How to use the product with a Mac required an hour on the phone with tech support, who three times gave incorrect information and instructions.
If you're anything but a Windows user, avoid this product. It is simply not worth the headache.
Limited OS support, extremely limited documentation January 15, 2009
6 out of 15 found this review helpful
The DLink DNS-343 can only be configured with a Windows computer, and access to the files is only supported via Windows or Mac. Linux or other Unix users are totally out of luck. These OS requirements are mentioned nowhere in the documentation or the product specifications. How to use the product with a Mac required an hour on the phone with tech support, who three times gave incorrect information and instructions.
If you're anything but a Windows user, avoid this product. It is simply not worth the headache.
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