Someone say recently they were after a NAS box ?

This seems a bargain with a 400GB hard drive included:
DLINK DNS-323 Network Storage 400GB & print server on eBay, also, Other Networking, Networking, Computing (end time 06-Dec-08 16:31:26 GMT)

 

I thought the netgear ones were sh*te ?

 

Says DLINK

 

LOL so it does

Are they ok then the Dlink ones ?

Not sure whether it is a bargain or not as it has a start price of 99p with a week to go

not sure how much they retail for either

 

Have you noticed anything about the image they have used ?

 

Eghey is a scum hole..

D-Link DNS-323 Network Storage Enclosure DNS-323 From Laptops Direct

 

same image as the official DLINK website looking at this, just reversed ?
2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure - DNS-323 by D-Link

 

bunch of ****

 

That looks okay? And should work with the Xbox as it is uPNP?

Steve

 

Mmmm... this doesn't work with the Xbox apparently. A new firmware version will come out later this month to address it.

Steve

 

what about this

Aria 3.5'' Alu HDD Caddy w/ LAN! - Aria Technology

with a ide drive this would function as a cheap network drive?

 

Unfortunately not uPnP compatible.

Steve

 

Thecus YES Box N2100 SM (Media Server edition) NAS on eBay, also, Hard Drive Caddies Enclosures, Drives Storage, Computing (end time 04-Dec-08 18:41:43 GMT)

 

Make sure you find out what the xfer rate is on these before you spend your ££. I bought a My Book World Edition naively thinking that because it had a 1gb lan port it would transfer at that speed.

30mins for 5gb = taking the ****

Luckily I only use it for over night backups, so I dont really notice...

 

From my perspective I will use it mainly for streaming videos and it'll be hidden away somewhere using those 'magic' homeplugs (and the 85mb ones at that).

Steve

 

through the software supplied though would you not be able to share the drive and then you would be able to stream to the xbox?

 

I just bought a D-Link 323 on eBay (half price), drove 30 miles to pick it up and everything works great. You can hack it to install Twonky while you are waiting for 1.06 firmware to be released.

Thanks for your help,

Steve

 

I've been using an Intrant, now Netgear, ReadyNas+ for a couple of years now. Got 4 400 gig drives in it that the moment, and one drive did go down. The hot swapping worked a treat.

Recommended - they're not the cheapest on the block but worth it imho.

 

I won't go near Netgear for NAS boxes - I had one of their early ones and it gave me no end of problems.

Best NAS i've used so far are the QNAPs
QNAP Systems, Inc.- NAS storage and Surveillance products provider

 

They're only branded Netgear (from this year I think). The actual company is called Infrant. Their Raidar OS is worth checking out.

 

I've just bought a QNAP TS409-Pro. Superb bit of kit and it works much better than the Synology CS407e that it is replacing

 

I bought 2 QNAP TS209-Pro's earlier in the year, they are superb bits of kit.

Darren