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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => D-Link Storage => DNS-320 => Topic started by: koolice75 on June 06, 2011, 03:45:19 PM

Title: DNS 320 and SAMSUNG F4 HD204UI 2TB
Post by: koolice75 on June 06, 2011, 03:45:19 PM

I have read lots of discussions about Advance Format 4k per sector issue with NAS RAID1 configuration. I realy want to know if anybody has used Samsung F4 2TB drive in DNS 320 wit  RAID1 config. Does it work error free with current firmware 2.0?

Title: Re: DNS 320 and SAMSUNG F4 HD204UI 2TB
Post by: koo75 on June 08, 2011, 12:46:41 PM

Me too.  The best option is, buy 2tb hard drives and try it. If this is not working, return it.

Title: Re: DNS 320 and SAMSUNG F4 HD204UI 2TB
Post by: arvsft on June 08, 2011, 01:11:42 PM

Yeah....it'd be nice if they can release an updated compatibility list. 

ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/dns/DNS-320/compat_list/ (http://ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/dns/DNS-320/compat_list/)

I, too, have two Samsung F2 drives but I'm on the fence to buy this product.  The mod has stated (in another thread) that AFT drives are supported, but no official documentation supports that.

Title: Re: DNS 320 and SAMSUNG F4 HD204UI 2TB
Post by: l3xx on June 11, 2011, 09:34:43 AM

Im using two of those F2 Samsungs without problems (with a JBOD config)

Title: Re: DNS 320 and SAMSUNG F4 HD204UI 2TB
Post by: albert on June 12, 2011, 05:00:58 AM

AFT drive should work without problem including partition alignment on FW2.00

Title: Re: DNS 320 and SAMSUNG F4 HD204UI 2TB
Post by: koolice75 on June 14, 2011, 01:50:02 PM

I just called D LINK Technical Support (not sure why I chose to do so) and asked them to contact a Product Specialist for NAS. I asked if the device supports AFT. He said it may work, but they do not officially support AFT. They asked me to try at my own risk. I didn't want to uppack two new 2TB F4 hard drives and decided to call UPS and send it back to newegg. I didn't want to take chance and pay any restocking fees and shipping fees. I am hapy with Hitachi now.

Title: Re: DNS 320 and SAMSUNG F4 HD204UI 2TB
Post by: RayDNS320 on June 15, 2011, 07:54:38 AM

I use the comparable 2TB Version from Western Digital (WDEARS) which also uses AF.

I had absolutely no problems formatting and now using the HD. The NAS correctly notices the 4KB sectors and starts the partitition at sector 16 (can be divided by 4).

If you experience problems, you still could format the HD elsewhere and setting the correct sectors manually.

Title: Re: DNS 320 and SAMSUNG F4 HD204UI 2TB
Post by: spigoule on June 15, 2011, 12:53:29 PM

I have two F4 samsung running on my DNS 320 like a charm... I just had a format pb with 1.x drivers... Check you have latest 2.x driver and it's ok !