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[das75]

Have about 3TB sitting on 2 external USB drives that I want to transfer over to my DNS-323 (with 2 - 2TB Seagate SATAlll conf'd as linear).

Read about "ffp" and mounting them but bit of a Linux newbie so probably stay away from that. Wondering if I connected the 323 and USB drives directly to a PC would I get any faster transfer speeds than going through my old Trendnet router (323 on the network, Drives to USB port on PC)?

[Tipstaff]

If your PC has a Gigabit network card, then yes, you could get faster speeds by using a crossover cable from your PC's NIC to the 323. You could also use a straight (regular) Ethernet cable as I remember reading somewhere that the Ethernet chip running on the 323 supports Auto MDIX, so it might switch the connection automatically. Either way you would still have to manually setup a static address first on the 323, connect the devices to the PC, and copy away.

[fordem]

2-2TB conf'd as linear

Are you referring to JBOD here?

I would suggest you reconsider your disk configuration - should either disk fail you will lose access to ALL the data, even if it is entirely contained on the remaining disk.