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[sgscomps]

We have had our DNS-323 for over a year. It is powered off everyday by the power switch on the front of the unit. It's now starting to take a while to get it to turn on and off with the switch (getting spongy no longer firm), we can start using the Windows Gaget to do the shutdown but will have a problem getting it started. Has anyone had this problem and how did you solve it. We turn it off everyday because the power in our location goes off a lot after working hours. Can you buy just the front cover from Dlink? Thanks for any help.

[dosborne]

Personally, I would suggest a good UPS and leaving it on. Not sure where or how easy it would be to find a replacement switch. @ $150, maybe work could spring for a new unit?

[gunrunnerjohn]

Dumb question, why are you powering it off all the time?  At idle with the disks spun down, it takes 6 watts, not exactly a power hog!

[jamieburchell]

Dumb question, why are you powering it off all the time?  At idle with the disks spun down, it takes 6 watts, not exactly a power hog!

We turn it off everyday because the power in our location goes off a lot after working hours. Can you buy just the front cover from Dlink? Thanks for any help.

I don't think replacing the front cover will help as the actual button is on the unit itself. The big button you press on the front panel simply presses this smaller button.

[sgscomps]

If it was up to me I would leave it on all the time but the owner shuts everything off every night, the unit is plugged into a UPS. I have two of these units at home, one for data storage with raid and the other for backups and never turn them off except for severe storms or vacation. I use the power saving on both of them while not in use to save the wear on the drives as well as save power.

[gunrunnerjohn]

Well, the owner may be buying a new box or at least repairing this one. 

[fordem]

Slip the front off and see if the problem is the switch on the DNS-323 or the button on the front panel - the button came loose on mine, and I disassembled the front panel and reglued it.

[direwolf1972]

I don't think replacing the front cover will help as the actual button is on the unit itself. The big button you press on the front panel simply presses this smaller button.

I bought one used off eBay. When it showed up the "smaller" button inside literally fell out. I found it and put it back in, got the unit to power up 1 time. The network didn't recognize it. So I powered it down (not thinking it was a fluke I got it to turn on the first time) and now I cant get the small button inside to line up correctly. I think I am going to take it to a local electronics shop tomorrow to see if they can jerry rig some kind of power switch as the seller isn't responding to my emails and sold it as-is... unfortunately he advertised it as everything working correctly.

Any help or suggestions that might help me get the unit powered on would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Paul

[direwolf1972]

I used a jewelers screw driver to short out the front two solder points on the underside of the circuit board. Started right up no problems.

Same to shut it down. Short those two points out and hold them shorted out for five seconds.

Trial and error the only way to go sometimes.

[Andrew4Life]

Will leaving it on all the time cause the hard drive to fail more quickly?
When the drives spin down during idle time, I believe the hard drive is still on, just that the platters aren't spinning.
But I think this might cause the hard drive to fail more quickly.

[fordem]

My DNS-323 has been running every day, all day since I purchased it in 2006 - the only time it goes off is when there is a power outage.  In that time, I have had ONE hard drive failure - I don't see reduced drive life as being an issue.

[ojosch]

I have an APC UPS in my home system, which I modded and externally connected 2 full-size Optima deep cycle gel batteries to it externally, and I installed UPS-NUT tools via Funplug onto the DNS-323, and it is the NUT master which also controls 2 slaves (other servers) in which if the power goes out it can withstand an 8-10 hour power loss, but with the UPS-NUT tools, if the battery voltage goes below 10.5 volts the master (DNS-323) will safely shut down the other 2 slave servers, and then shut himself down gracefully.

My system is unique in that my 2 servers actually run using 12v DC power supplies, and all my wireless APs, switches, etc, are also running on the low voltage power bus via a DC-DC stabilizer (mainly only use the APC UPS as the sensor to run UPS-NUT tools), but for the moment I do run the DNS-323 off of the AC power adapter so it does go through the inverter circuit of the APC UPS. I also disabled the internal charger inside the APC UPS and charge the batteries using a standalone power supply/ battery maintainer which can rapid charge up to 60 amps for fast recovery.

But in your case, you could get a simple APC UPS same as mine (or use the one you already have), and just wire it to a larger external gel battery (gel batteries don't emit flammable gases and are safe for indoor use), and just by doing that alone you would most likely be able to run easily all night on that charge, and one could configure the DNS-323 for safe shutdown using UPS-NUT tools if desired to go to that extent.

If that sounds too complicated then you can just do what the other guy suggested and pull the front cover off so you can see the actual little micro-button, and push that directly to check and see if it is faulty. If it is, you can go to Digi-Key website and order a replacement one, and it could easily be soldiered into place. I could fix it for you if you needed someone to do it, and could handle the downtime for a few days turnaround, or you could take it to a local electronics repair shop and they could do the soldiering as well.

The last option is to just switch to cloud storage like Google Drive (if you have a fast enough internet connection), as well..