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[networker]

I have been checking on the support.dlink.com site looking for a NEW firmware release and I have not seen any new releases in over a year. For a while there was a release every few months. Is there going to be a new release or has my DNS-321 reached its end of life and I now have a product that D-Link no longer supports? If this is not the case, please let me know what's happening.
Thank you!

[jjd99d]

Same here I just bought a 3tb hard drive to find out the dns 321 will need a firmware update for it to work. I wounder if d-link will update the firmware.

[JavaLawyer]

I would say the likelihood of 3TB support for the DNS-321 is uncertain. To date, I can say that D-Link has not openly committed to providing 3TB support for the DNS-323 and DNS-343 in the near-term.

[chrislee]

I would say the likelihood of 3TB support for the DNS-321 is uncertain. To date, I can say that D-Link has not openly committed to providing 3TB support for the DNS-323 and DNS-343 in the near-term.

Thst's a bummer.

I ran out of space on my DNS-323 with 2 x 2TB drives running RAID 1. When I upgraded from 2 X 512GB summer last year, I expected the upgrade to last a lifetime. But now I'm running out again.

So I bought a DNS-343 hoping I could put drives in it that were large enough to last a looooong time. Thinking 2 x 3TB now plus 2 x 4TB when the price somes down.

After all. the blurb _did_ say it supported any SATA drive size.

Oh, well.

[JavaLawyer]

Thst's a bummer.

I ran out of space on my DNS-323 with 2 x 2TB drives running RAID 1. When I upgraded from 2 X 512GB summer last year, I expected the upgrade to last a lifetime. But now I'm running out again.

So I bought a DNS-343 hoping I could put drives in it that were large enough to last a looooong time. Thinking 2 x 3TB now plus 2 x 4TB when the price somes down.

After all. the blurb _did_ say it supported any SATA drive size.

Oh, well.

A new D-Link 4-bay NAS is coming out soon, the DNS-345 Sharecenter Quattro

[beyondChairs]

This topic appears to be dead without any resolution.   
Will there be firmware updates before the dns-323 and 321 are retired in May?
If so, what will they contain?

I need to upgrade to 3tb drives and I need to decide whether to use my existing 323/321 solution or whether to look for a different vendor for myself and my clients.     3 tb drives have been around since 2010, so failure to support them certainly counts as planned early obsolescence and therefore a reason to change vendors.

[JavaLawyer]

I do not believe 3TB HDDs will be supported on the DNS-321/323/343.

[beyondChairs]

Thanks for the info.   
Are you inside d-link or is this your opinion from the outside?
Better yet, are you able to speak for d-link so that we have a definite answer one way or the other.

If your assessment is correct, actual support ended somewhere around the time 3 tb drives hit the market, late 2010 / early 2011.    The latest firmware on the support site (1.08) ftp://files.dlink.com.au/products/DNS-323/REV_B/Firmware/ has a 2/27/2010 file date.      I know that these were cheap boxes (their second major virtue with relatively arbitrary reconfiguration through fun_plug being the primary), so support budgets are probably limited, but still, ...

Are there any support guarantees on any of the newer pricier products, say 7 years from date of introduction, ... or anything definite or is SAB 101 killing the ability to say anything? 

Other than the firmware, it seems like these are still perfectly capable boxes that could handle two 3 tb disks in terms of the balance of capabilities.       

Has anyone had luck using the Alt-F firmware, or is that not yet ready for prime time?

[JavaLawyer]

All I will say is that the DNS-321 is decommissioned (last firmware update 2+ years ago), and the DNS-323/343 were recently phased out. None of these devices have 3TB support. The successor for the DNS-323 was the DNS-320 and DNS-325 (a more extensible device than the DNS-320). When the DNS-320 and DNS-325 were first released, they did not have 3TB support until a firmware update came out approximately 6 months later. The DNS-320 is currently being phased out in lieu of the new DNS-320L.

We're now two generations past the DNS-321/323. Based on this chronology you can draw your own conclusions.

Thanks for the info.    
Are you inside d-link or is this your opinion from the outside?
Better yet, are you able to speak for d-link so that we have a definite answer one way or the other.

If your assessment is correct, actual support ended somewhere around the time 3 tb drives hit the market, late 2010 / early 2011.    The latest firmware on the support site (1.08) ftp://files.dlink.com.au/products/DNS-323/REV_B/Firmware/ has a 2/27/2010 file date.      I know that these were cheap boxes (their second major virtue with relatively arbitrary reconfiguration through fun_plug being the primary), so support budgets are probably limited, but still, ...

Are there any support guarantees on any of the newer pricier products, say 7 years from date of introduction, ... or anything definite or is SAB 101 killing the ability to say anything?  

Other than the firmware, it seems like these are still perfectly capable boxes that could handle two 3 tb disks in terms of the balance of capabilities.        

Has anyone had luck using the Alt-F firmware, or is that not yet ready for prime time?