DNS-323 Network Storage

[shadowandy]

Guess quite a handful of people got DNS-323 after Comex 2007.


Picture of the DNS-323 I got back in May

Here are some resources to get you started with your DNS-323

• wiki.dns323.info
• Community Forum
• MLDonkey for DNS-323
• MLDonkey 2.9.6 for DNS-313, DNS-323, DNS-343
• Running fonz’s fun_plug (0.5) on DNS-323
• Transmission (bittorrent client) for DNS-323
• Setting up Clutch (webui for transmission)
• Password protecting your Clutch
• Compiling your own applications on the DNS-313, DNS-323, DNS-343
• shadowandy's DNS-323 stuffs

 

[Cloudiax]

Looks good.

How big is it?

 

[shadowandy]

Looks good.

How big is it?

You meant the physical size of the DNS-323? I took the picture with a regular can of coke (330ml). Guess that will roughly tell you the size of the NAS.

 

[Cloudiax]

Capacity I mean. 1TB?

 

[shadowandy]

Capacity I mean. 1TB?

It is just a humble 160GB. Anybody wish to donate their unused SATA II harddisks to me?

 

[svnnie001]

nice one.... got warranty? setup easy?

 

[shadowandy]

My set was imported from overseas hence no local warranty.

As for setup wise, I would say it is pretty straight forward. Plug in the harddisk, find out the IP address of the NAS, login in uring default username and password. Lastly setup your harddisk in the manner you want.

 

[richneo]

My set was imported from overseas hence no local warranty.

As for setup wise, I would say it is pretty straight forward. Plug in the harddisk, find out the IP address of the NAS, login in uring default username and password. Lastly setup your harddisk in the manner you want.

i tot u just bought second set at comex? hehehe

 

[quekky]

this NAS should be able to support furture hdd right? eg next year 2TB hdd come out :drool: can't find any mention of max hdd size it can support

 

[richneo]

this NAS should be able to support furture hdd right? eg next year 2TB hdd come out :drool: can't find any mention of max hdd size it can support

cos there is no limitation yet i think hehe

its using *nix BTW

 

[shadowandy]

For those who have got your hands on a DNS-323 recently, perhaps you might want to set up fun_plug and MLDonkey (bittorrent client) on your new toy.

Check out MLDonkey Real Simple Edition which comes with fon_plug and MLDonkey 2.9.2 (lite) in one neat package. After which, you can simple upgrade MLDonkey to future version simply by replacing mlnet.

There is a fair bit of discussions in the comments section of this blog entry. Do read it if you do encounter any problems. If you got new problems, you can post in it there so that others will benefit as well.

Hope it helps.

 

[VenomX2]

did you wait in line for the special promo price?

 

[VenomX2]

Is there anyway to partition the hard disk while still in Raid 1?

having problems running video from device. had uploaded a movie trailer to the NAS then tried to view it from laptop from media player. the video is jerky at times, is it cause of wireless?

 

[shadowandy]

did you wait in line for the special promo price?

I shipped the DNS-323 from overseas in May 2007.

having problems running video from device. had uploaded a movie trailer to the NAS then tried to view it from laptop from media player. the video is jerky at times, is it cause of wireless?

What is your wireless specs?

 

[VenomX2]

I shipped the DNS-323 from overseas in May 2007.

What is your wireless specs?

the router supports b,g specs, laptop tried on one that supports only b and another that has b,g.

 

[VenomX2]

is there anyway to defrag the NAS? heard it came with defrag function in an earlier firmware?

 

[alpc]

Well, I finally got my hands on this - after 3 months of waiting... Started to offload my stuff from HDD into this... Then I realised they dun support CJK characters... So I got about 4 folders which is there, you can see it, but you can't do much to it... Darn it, should have read closely on those resource link before I started... Well, now to wait for firmware 1.04 which is supposed to support International character sets. Have not loaded the mldonkey as yet, but did load the fun_plug (for telnet).

So may I ask... What kind of setup do you use? RAID 1? Standard? I decided to use standard, and use a script to do backup from Volume 1 to Volume 2, instead of RAID 1 configuration... However, I am still at the stage of getting files into it, so the script has not been setup as yet... Maybe I should... Then the first backup would not be too long in terms of timing it needs to copy from 1 HDD to the other...

Anyone knows how to make use of its UPnP server? I am still at a lost of how this work? Which program can be used as a client to view the stuff from the UPnP server?

Finally, got to relearn the Unix commands... It has been years since I touch a Unix box...

 

[VenomX2]

...

So may I ask... What kind of setup do you use? RAID 1? Standard? I decided to use standard, and use a script to do backup from Volume 1 to Volume 2, instead of RAID 1 configuration... However, I am still at the stage of getting files into it, so the script has not been setup as yet... Maybe I should... Then the first backup would not be too long in terms of timing it needs to copy from 1 HDD to the other...

why use a script instead of Raid 1?

 

[alpc]

Well, heard some stories in the other forum on RAID 1 configuration... Thought it would be better not do that....

 

[Sapphy]

Hey guys, is there a proper way to "shutdown" DNS? Or do I just power off straight away?