Since first updating my firmware to 1.31 and now 1.32 Beta and installing Shareport, for weeks my energy has been spent trying to successfully create a drive image onto a USB drive attached to the USB shareport. Each attempt was met with eventual failure in the way of Delayed Write Errors. At first I thought it was a fault of either my drivers, my paging memory, USB cabling, etc. I never tried to simply hang the drive off of my Laptop and see what happened until today. I incorrectly assumed that I would receive the same Delayed Write Error since the issue is related to the transference of large chunks of data over USB ports. I could not have been more wrong. I imaged 33GB of data in 53 minutes and it worked so flawlessly that it made my head spin. I will not stop trying to image to the drive using Shareport so long as D-Link continues to provide updates to either the firmware, or software, or both. I have copied a 20MB file to the Shareport drive without a problem but any attempt to continuously copy data, as in my imaging program, will ultimately crash the drive and bring my computer to it's knees.
Edit: Not sure what has changed since taking the drive off the router, creating a backup, and reattaching it to the router but now Shareport says that the connection to my mass storage device has failed. This is a popup window and one that I have never seen. Then it cycles to another message (onscreen) with a red x, and then to one with a yellow triangle that says no USB devices were found. The router logs say otherwise since it states that the silex driver has found the drive. I think I'm officially hosed. If I reconnect the drive to my computer everything looks fine. I did change the drive from a primary partition to a logical partition and when it would not connect, I changed it back to a primary partition yet this did not work.
06/08
Edit: Performing a Computer reboot fixed the aforementioned problem. I can see and access my drive now but after leaving Shareport on all night and checking it this morning it had detached and would not reconnect.