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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => DNS-323 => D-Link Storage => Beta code! => Topic started by: darkmantis on March 21, 2010, 07:55:26 PM
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Seriously, Dlink, that usb printer port on the back is useless, especially if anyone like me tosses the dlink in a closet for NAS functions other than using a printer. I would really love to plug another external drive to the usb and believe me, I have tried using funplug and no - go atleast for the latest version. It can't be that hard to allow us to add one more disk to the solution, would it?
Please ask the powers that be if they would consider adding simple external drive support to the dlink 323 :)
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I agree here, As I have said before. Moving/Backing up files FROM the DNS would be way faster than moving them on the network. I really hope there is some way to DIRECTLY transfer files from the DNS to a USB storage device in the future.
TK
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I'll add my vote.
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Ditto
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Mark me down for supporting this feature!
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Another vote from me
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Aye
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Agree, thi swould be very nice and very usefull !
(but please NOT via shareport because that just doesn't work, just plain and simple USB)
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totally agreed, and do consider to support NTFS file system for external drive (if possible) .. ;D
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Yarp
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I'm in for this to. So one more vote for external USB drive support.
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Me too!
I would love to be able to hook up my 500GB WD USB and back up the whole DNS-323 without going through the network or another computer.
This would be a Major value Add-on for me.
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Since my Synology DS209 writes NTFS at about 6mbytes/sec, I wouldn't look for any fast performance for NTFS attached disks, even if they do decide to support it. The processor and memory in the DNS-323 just isn't sufficient for decent speeds unless you use FAT32 or EXT2/3 formatted disks.
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I thought funplug allowed you manually mount an external USB drive...
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Have you guys tried out the SharePort on the DNS-323?
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Personaly I did try SharePort...
The problem is that the DNS-323 does not copy files directly to it.
Its transfering the files through the network to our computer, then from our computer to the USB... again through the network...
Its the same deal when trying to copy from 1 disk to the other in the DNS-323.... but at leat you have "Scheduled transfer" thats faster when it works correctly
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Have you guys tried out the SharePort on the DNS-323?
Yes - it behaves as if the port is attached to the PC via a very long wire - so that the disk is attached to the PC, not the DNS-323.
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I'm pretty sure the idea here is to allow the DNS-323 to backup to this drive, not to simply have a remote access to the drive. If you want that, just plug it into your computer's USB ports directly.
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Reply to the suggestion of ECF regarding shareport on the DNS-323 :
The question should be has anyone managed to make shareport (3.0 client) and the DNS-323 work with Windows 7 64-Bit ? I would love to use it for the standard Windows backup but connecting to a disk simply does not work and usually I have to restart the DNS-323 afterwards as well to get back to normal.
To be able to use the USB port directly would be nice (I backup my DNS-323 once a month onto a small portable USB disk which I store off-site) but to get shareport working would be a real benefit...
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I would LOVE to be able to plug in a USB drive to the back port for further storage.
Add another one to the "AYE" list ;)
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*sign*
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One more vote. I'd use it to allow one to easily create a backup of DNS based data onto an external drive to be moved to off-site storage.
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The question should be has anyone managed to make shareport (3.0 client) and the DNS-323 work with Windows 7 64-Bit ? I would love to use it for the standard Windows backup but connecting to a disk simply does not work and usually I have to restart the DNS-323 afterwards as well to get back to normal.
Home-premium 64-bit works perfectly for me with the shareport. Connected a canon-pixma scanner/printer to it.
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I too include my vote for adding this feature. Besides the ability to backup data, high performance access would allow me to connect my WD 2TB external where I have my video library. Accessing that on the network would remove the need for me to use my PC as a quasi-server for serving up movies to the living room.
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Hi there, you shouldn´t expect "high-performance access" when talking about a device using a 500 MHz-cpu and 64 mb of ram...
kind regards, apollo
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Hi there, you should expect "high-performance access" when talking about a device using a 500 MHz-cpu and 64 mb of ram..
Well, you may expect "high-performance access", but you won't get it. ;)
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can i add my vote for this aswell please :)
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Well, you may expect "high-performance access", but you won't get it. ;)
ah...typo. ;)
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I rather have a USB connection possibility without the SharePort software. Using Shareport on my router (D-link 825) in windows7 does simply NOT work. I have absolutely no confidence in this utility. Also running it under XP was very tricky when I tried it and quite instable.
I'm very interested if any of you have shareport working on a 825 router with Windows7 (32 bit OS version).
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I rather have a USB connection possibility without the SharePort software. Using Shareport on my router (D-link 825) in windows7 does simply NOT work. I have absolutely no confidence in this utility. Also running it under XP was very tricky when I tried it and quite instable.
I'm very interested if any of you have shareport working on a 825 router with Windows7 (32 bit OS version).
Are both your utility and firmware on the router up to date? I have tested Win7 SharePort utility with DNS-323 AddOn and did not have any issues.
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Knowing how simple it is to write quick and dirty scripts to do the job, could the functionality be added as an external package of some sort?
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Throwing my hat in for this request as well. Makes sense to be able to dump a mirrored copy of my raid1 to a drive connected directly to the usbport on the back. Having said option built in to be able to schedule it (and for it to just handle delta changes instead of full copies to save time as well) would all be nice too. No desire to do this over shareport, as it should be able to back itself up, no need for an external computer.
Thanks!
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If you have to use an external computer, might as well connect the USB drive to that computer, must faster. :D
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+1 ;D
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here is my vote for it.
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Same thing with Shareport here - it works well with current FW and Win7-64. I tested it with a multifunction printer, but the special behaviour of MFP's (acting as 3 or more several devices) gives a little trouble, so I decided to use (W-) LAN.
FunPlug can also automatically mount a USB device, at least at boot-up. Problem is the "unmount" - there's no "Remove portable devices" feature, so you have to shut down the NAS.
But, it would be a serious feature to use the USB feature for download or streaming storage. It's silent, needs nearly zero energy and produces no heat.
So - add my vote FOR implementing USB storage support :) .
//HSishi
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If I'm not mistaken, it's a feature of the DNS-343, which also has rsync.
For these reasons I don't think this feature will ever make it to the DNS-323.
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I'll add my vote for the USB port to support an external drive or a Flashdrive. Most printers these days are already network ready.
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+1 for this!
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Add my vote also, I agree using the USB port for an external USB drive would be a big plus! Also why not up grade the Linux kernel and samba! I think part of the problem the box is trying to do too much stuff,how about a firmware with the basics (latest kernel, samba, power management, drive support, user management and folder management, and fast transfer speeds)?