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Title: Firmware upgrade and 2TB hard disks
Post by: mpdava on January 06, 2011, 06:46:44 PM: It has been almost one year since the last significant release 1.08 and there are so many bugs to fix. When are we going to see an update? I think many people are waiting for this ..

Also, I want to upgrade my NAS to 2TB disks. There is only ONE model officially supported (WD20EADS) and it is out of stock in most of the places/maybe discontinued by WD? - ref: http://www.dlink.ca/support/faq/?prod_id=2399

What other 2TB disks are supported by D-Link as many new disks now have the 4K format block/not supported.

Thanks
Title: Re: Firmware upgrade and 2TB hard disks
Post by: jamieburchell on January 07, 2011, 01:31:50 AM: Pretty much any SATA 2TB 512 byte drive will work.
Title: Re: Firmware upgrade and 2TB hard disks
Post by: mpdava on January 10, 2011, 07:51:51 PM: Thanks, any particular 2TB drives you would recommend and that are compatible with DNS323? I currently have WD 1TB (WD10EADS) green and I would like to upgrade to 2TB drives that are still power efficient. I do not have any options from WD as their new green WD20EARS comes with 4K sectors.

On a side note, I do not understand why D-link would not update the compatibility list and provide a few options for 2TB disks ...
Title: Re: Firmware upgrade and 2TB hard disks
Post by: archie1810 on January 11, 2011, 05:46:51 PM: Hello - Suddently interested to follow your path, I'm running out of space on my DNS-323 even though I've got my other latest model DNS-320 and yet to open from its box...
Any idea whether I need to upgrade my firmware before it's able to support 2 x 2TB Disks please? My current firmware I think v1.07 since originally purchased last year.
Thanks. :)
Title: Re: Firmware upgrade and 2TB hard disks
Post by: mpdava on January 11, 2011, 09:41:28 PM: You would need to upgrade to 1.08 or 1.09 to have support for 2TB disks. Be aware that many new disks are formatted with 4K sectors and they are not working with the NAS specially in a RAID config.
Title: Re: Firmware upgrade and 2TB hard disks
Post by: archie1810 on January 12, 2011, 03:20:52 AM: Thanks for the reply.
I think i just need to slot in the disk and let DNS-323 format it, no?
Title: Re: Firmware upgrade and 2TB hard disks
Post by: mpdava on January 12, 2011, 12:31:01 PM: As long as the hard drive is compatible:

http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=9abb4e350237a227af0bbebb99ce12c5&topic=12977.0
Title: Re: Firmware upgrade and 2TB hard disks
Post by: jamieburchell on January 12, 2011, 03:42:06 PM: Quote from: mpdava on January 10, 2011, 07:51:51 PM
Thanks, any particular 2TB drives you would recommend and that are compatible with DNS323? I currently have WD 1TB (WD10EADS) green and I would like to upgrade to 2TB drives that are still power efficient. I do not have any options from WD as their new green WD20EARS comes with 4K sectors.

On a side note, I do not understand why D-link would not update the compatibility list and provide a few options for 2TB disks ...

I'm happily running a 2TB Samsung Spinpoint F3
Title: Re: Firmware upgrade and 2TB hard disks
Post by: kwkmedia on January 13, 2011, 07:16:03 AM: Apparently, the impossible is happening ... I am running 2 x DNS 323s with 1.06 and have 3 2TB EARS drives that are working.

QUESTION:
Should I update the firmware at all.
If I do update, will the files still be accessible on the Raid and other single drives.

One DNS323 runs a RAID 1 and the other DNS323 I use as individual drives (swap in depending on a project). The reason I want to update the firmware is that although the drives are working, I think the transfer rate of 9-12Mb/s is just not good. And that's using Teracopy. Task Manager/Network reports 12% usage on my fully Gigabit Network (cat6 cables, all devices Gigabit Ports). I realize these are slow boxes, but ...

QUESTION:
Shouldn't I be getting 20-30 Mb/s?

My plan is to update one of the DNS323s and see what happens.

QUESTION:
How easy is it to undo the firmware upgrade, if at all possible?

For anyone that cares ... I formatted the WD 2T EARS Caviar Green Drives using the the NAS and had the jumpers off (3Gb/s setting).
Title: Re: Firmware upgrade and 2TB hard disks
Post by: jasonsbx on January 27, 2011, 12:35:09 AM: Quote from: kwkmedia on January 13, 2011, 07:16:03 AM
Apparently, the impossible is happening ... I am running 2 x DNS 323s with 1.06 and have 3 2TB EARS drives that are working.

QUESTION:
Should I update the firmware at all.
If I do update, will the files still be accessible on the Raid and other single drives.

One DNS323 runs a RAID 1 and the other DNS323 I use as individual drives (swap in depending on a project). The reason I want to update the firmware is that although the drives are working, I think the transfer rate of 9-12Mb/s is just not good. And that's using Teracopy. Task Manager/Network reports 12% usage on my fully Gigabit Network (cat6 cables, all devices Gigabit Ports). I realize these are slow boxes, but ...

QUESTION:
Shouldn't I be getting 20-30 Mb/s?

My plan is to update one of the DNS323s and see what happens.

QUESTION:
How easy is it to undo the firmware upgrade, if at all possible?

For anyone that cares ... I formatted the WD 2T EARS Caviar Green Drives using the the NAS and had the jumpers off (3Gb/s setting).
Don't think firmware update is required, A later one fixed issue with specific brand but wasn't about disk size. The EARS disk are the problem ones but more problematic with raid I believe, I use Seagate 2TB 5900 LP in raid with no issue after 6 months.
Firmware update is easy and yes you can go back.
Your transfer rate is around what I get perhaps a bit lower, the new 320 does boost my reads up into the 20s while writes remain similar. Given peformance others report not quite sure where bottleneck is but its always been similar for 323 regardless of drives used.