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[Zaim]

Hi, I'm thinking of purchasing the DNS-320, i have a few questions:

Would you recommend this nas?
Will the front usb port work if connected to my blu-ray player to playback files on the nas? does it allow you to read the contents of the internal hard drive via USB?
What read/write reads would i get if connected via gigabit router?

[gameboy1971]

yes, but it depends on what you want to use if for. i use it as a media nas and for backups.
no, don't think so.
i get around 64Mbits/s on a 100Mbits/s ethernet which is fine for what i use it for. i have seen 200MBits/s reported on gigabit.

[albert]

For gigabits connection, the max throughput is around 20 to 35MBps depending on the network equipment used. For FE connection, I'm able to achieve 10MBps on my Linksys WRT54G router.

So do I recommend this NAS, yes provided it's retailing below 80USD.

[Zaim]

Hi, i see, so if i kept the hard drive in the external enclosure and connect it to the usb port on the DNS 320 will that allow me to read and write to the external drive through the nas?

[Joke]

If the external drive is formatted to NTFS (normal windows format) you can only read from it.
If you format the drive to ext2 or ext3 (normal linux format) you can both read and write to it.

[Linhares]

About the speeds in gigabit, you will see some reviews hiting 25-35MB/s (write/read).
With some tweaks in ext3, i can get 25-35MB/s at writing

Obviously at FastEthernet (100MB/s) you will only get the max speed of (efective) 10MB/s.