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Author Topic: Please add USB external drive support already! :)  (Read 30180 times)

darkmantis

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Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« on: March 21, 2010, 07:55:26 PM »
Seriously, Dlink, that usb printer port on the back is useless, especially if anyone like me tosses the dlink in a closet for NAS functions other than using a printer. I would really love to plug another external drive to the usb and believe me, I have tried using funplug and no - go atleast for the latest version. It can't be that hard to allow us to add one more disk to the solution, would it?

Please ask the powers that be if they would consider adding simple external drive support to the dlink 323 :)

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Tank_Killer

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2010, 06:33:36 PM »
I agree here, As I have said before.  Moving/Backing up files FROM the DNS would be way faster than moving them on the network.  I really hope there is some way to DIRECTLY transfer files from the DNS to a USB storage device in the future.

TK
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fordem

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2010, 08:50:17 PM »
I'll add my vote.
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Buhric

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2010, 12:49:10 AM »
Ditto
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Trystan

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2010, 02:20:51 PM »
Mark me down for supporting this feature!
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jamieburchell

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2010, 02:48:30 PM »
Another vote from me
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CorporateOffRoader

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2010, 04:42:40 AM »
Aye
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fredcl

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2010, 12:07:28 AM »
Agree, thi swould be very nice and very usefull !
(but please NOT via shareport because that just doesn't work, just plain and simple USB)
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jktor

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2010, 11:05:58 PM »
totally agreed, and do consider to support NTFS file system for external drive (if possible) .. ;D

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Gaston

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2010, 02:25:30 AM »
Yarp
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Nisse

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2010, 12:14:29 PM »
I'm in for this to. So one more vote for external USB drive support.
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nm9p

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2010, 02:23:33 PM »
Me too!
I would love to be able to hook up my 500GB WD USB and back up the whole DNS-323 without going through the network or another computer.
This would be a Major value Add-on for me.
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gunrunnerjohn

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2010, 06:13:34 PM »
Since my Synology DS209 writes NTFS at about 6mbytes/sec, I wouldn't look for any fast performance for NTFS attached disks, even if they do decide to support it.  The processor and memory in the DNS-323 just isn't sufficient for decent speeds unless you use FAT32 or EXT2/3 formatted disks.
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wilburyan

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2010, 11:58:57 AM »
I thought funplug allowed you manually mount an external USB drive...
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ECF

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Re: Please add USB external drive support already! :)
« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2010, 01:48:58 PM »
Have you guys tried out the SharePort on the DNS-323?
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