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I have setup the drive without raid and added the drives as sequential.  I can use DNS 323 over the network.  But when you have large number of small files, network takes forever to transfer the files and DNS 323 chip can't seem to handle large # of small files.

I setup sequentially because I thought I can take out the individual drives and put it into a External Hard Drive case and connect it via USB 2.0 to make the transfer of lare # of small files via USB 2.0.

Some reason I can connect individual drives through External HD via USB 2.0 and placed a simple text file.  Then placed the drives back into DNS-323 to see if the files are there when accessing through network.  But when accessing through network, dns-323 doesn't show the test file that I have placed.

Can someone let me know if I can access files on dns-323 drives by placing them in External HD and vice versa? 

[fordem]

What's your idea of a large number of files?  On my DNS-323 I have a folder that contains in excess of 208,000 (two hundred & eight thousand files) with a total capacity of 21.6GB, so that would be an average, I believe, of 100k.

The DNS-323, in my opinion works just fine with large numbers of small files - I grant you it's no speed demon though.

One caution - the DNS-323 was NOT designed to have it's disks swapped in and out repeatedly - so don't get upset if you lose data as a result of doing this.

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I had lot of development files and version control files such as svn.  Files were small but # of them very easily surpassed > 500 000.  DSN 323 Chip couldn't handle it.  It took me 3 days to transfer the files via network (10Mb).  Either I had to manually chunk copy group of folders than just one big single copy into another PC.  I had to restart the DNS 323 on each chunk copy so that memory on DNS 323 is not exhausted. 

Crazy....