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[Diablo0]

I've been on the fence for several weeks now going back and forth about purchasing a 323.  The main reason that are keeping me from purchasing it are the firmware problems that I'm reading about.  The main one being that it formats the wrong drive.  From what I'm gathering and please correct me if I'm wrong, in some cases when a drive is taken out and then put right back in, the 323 will want to format the inserted drive. I'm guessing you can bypass that and tell it not to but each time it reboots it proceeds to ask to format the drive.  When you do format the drive it then formats the wrong one, the one that never removed.  Is that correct?

I've done some searching, read about 11 pages of threads on here looking at what I'd be getting into and expect if I purchased one.  I have a few questions that while they may have been answered in some way, I just want to verify so I'm not spending $150-$200 on something that I'll end up trying to return, sell or sit on until a new firmware update comes around that fixes these problems.

The question I have is has anyone experieced an actual drive failure running RAID 1?   If you have or know of someone that has, how straight forward was swapping in a replacement drive, rebuilding the array and it copying the data over to the replacement drive.  With the problem that I outlined above does that pertain to this as well where after the failing drive is replaced with a new one, the 323 should format and partition the new drive but ends up formatting the existing drive that it would mirror the data from?

[krueger86]

I just purchased a 323 a week ago.  I was told by a good friend to make sure and test what would happen if you had a drive failure.  To start I updated the firmware to the latest first thing.  Even before I installed the drives.  I went through the settings and them powered the unit down and installed the drives.  After I powered it back up and it asked what RAID configuration JOBD, 0, or 1. I decided on 1 and let it format the disk.  I then copied about 16 gig of data to the drives.  I then shut it down and pull the right drive and powered it back up.  It emailed me, like I set it up, that the right drive had failed.  I then copied another 10 gig of data over to the drive and powered down and installed the drive that I had pulled out.  It prompted me to format the new drive and rebuilt the RAID.  I had no problems and the data that I copied over is still on the drive and been running fine ever since.  Just to note I did have it setup to for manual RAID repair not automatic so I had to log on and tell it to format the drive and repair.  I like that better anyways.  I was pleased that it indicated correctly which drive had failed.  I was not sure which one would be #1 or #2.  By stating the right drive it took away the possible confusion.  Great job D-link.  So far I am happy with it.  I will post if I run into any problems.

[jesbo09]

The problem I'm seeing reported is when a user is running a single standard disk in the DNS formatted and with data stored on it, then ADDs a second disk.  It asks if you want to format the newly inserted disk, and then when you reply YES... It reformats the one with data on it.

This is such a serious problem bug, I would expect Dlink to resease a fix for it ASAP and put a VERY VISIBLE sticky post here to encourage those with 1.06 firmware to update ASAP.

[koman]

Due to the problem of this 323, i have to buy a Qnap TS209 II pro yesterday to replace it.
My advise is look for a better quality one.