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Am using 2 x Seagate 1TB ST31000340NS as standard separate disks in my DNS323 with no problems - firmware 1.03

2 x Wester Digital Caviar SE - 500 GB, 16 MB Cache, 7200 RPM - running in RAID 0 configuration.

# cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: WDC      Model: WD5000AAKS-00YGA Rev: 12.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: WDC      Model: WD5000AAKS-00YGA Rev: 12.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03

Last edited by lewekleonek (2008-01-03 12:19:55)

Using two Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (ST3750330AS) - 750Gb.
Firmware: SD04
Date Code: 08193
Site Code: WUXISG

All OK.

Last edited by ambanmba (2008-01-10 21:57:08)

Just bought the DNS-323 and equipped it with two Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD753LJ 750 GB SATA-300 32MB cache.

Works like a dream. Used ext-2 formatting and 600MB Raid1 (mirrorring) and the rest 150+150MB as JBOD.

RAID 0 striping for performance is probably of no use, since I get abt 8.5MB/s out of both partitions over 100Mb/s Ethernet and abt 13MB/s over 1000Mb/s Ethernet the bottleneck is the controller not the disks.

So JBOD gives the same performance & capacity but higher security (if one disk falls in RAID 0 You loose ALL data)

Otherwise the only glitches I found was that my machine with WinXP HOME did not attach to the network - I didn´t really expect it either, but its worth noticing. Fixed it by replacing MS client with Novell NW 4.91 sp3 client - its even snappier than the MS client (only slightly).

WinXP PRO works fine with original MS client. However remember to activate NETBIOS - otherwise You can log into the drive via the browser BUT NOT attach the drives to driveletters.

mrmiketheman wrote:

I made the mistake of adding one drive at a time so RAID config isn't possible without reformating.  So I run weekly poor man's data copy from primary drive to the "backup" drive.  It is nice having 2TB online!

(off-topic)

Actually, your configuration is probably the most ideal.  See these pages for automated ways to copy from one drive to the other:

http://dns323.kood.org/forum/t1150-Tuto … night.html
http://backupnetclone.sourceforge.net/

mklx01 wrote:

I have a Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS with 500GB and 16MB cache (the new 3 platter version). Works great.

although this model is mentioned on official D-link compability list for DNS-323, I must say I went through nightmare. I bought two new caviars. one of them "originally" was damaged. it took me some time to state that fact (you may imagine how much time I spent). caviar dealer replaced two of them (nice !). after three no-problem months, again one of them failed. now no choice left they go to the hardware trash and I swith to seagate.

I have a pair of Western Digital RE2-GP 1TB (WD1000FYPS, http://wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=385) running in the standard configuration (individual disks) without any problems. I liked they should draw less power and their slower spinning seemed reasonable price - I will not need more than 5 MB/s anyway. Surprisingly, the desktop edition (Caviar GP) was more expensive in the shop where I bought the RAID one.

Before putting them to the box (D-Link DNS-323) I attached them to a computer and turned off TLER using the tool from WD because I was not going to put them to a RAID configuration. I was not sure if TLER was any good on software RAID devices anyway.

I am going to use directly only the first drive and just let regular backups run mirroring everything to the second drive using some script on the box's Linux. I hope that the second drive will sleep all the time the first one is used, am I right? At first I was thinking about scheduling rsync but now I would like to write something maintaining a backup-content database on the first drive only - not to access the second drive at all if nothing was changed.

Reading and writing using Samba or FTP shows approximately 15 MB/s uninterruptedly on a 1 Gb net. I put a few tens of GBs there so far. I am going to attach the first disk to my computer to deploy there some hundreds to get it done faster :-)

My D-Link came with the firmware 1.03. I upgraded to 1.04 and applied fonz's fun_plug 0.4-test; everything worked like a charm. Thank you all for the great work on those tools and in these forums!

Here we are the devices:

/ # cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: WDC      Model: WD1000FYPS-01ZKB Rev: 02.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: WDC      Model: WD1000FYPS-01ZKB Rev: 02.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03
/ #

blbrown: Thanks, I'll definitely have a look at BackupNetClone - I've already seen it while browsing the form :-) I'm glad to hear that the second disk can slumber undisturbed in their sauna (43 C inside :-) Thank you!

Nisken wrote:

Just bought the DNS-323 and equipped it with two Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD753LJ 750 GB SATA-300 32MB cache.

Works like a dream. Used ext-2 formatting and 600MB Raid1 (mirrorring) and the rest 150+150MB as JBOD.

I choose the same devices and i am using a similar scheme.

Volume Name:  Volume_1
Volume Type:  RAID 1
Sync Time Remaining:  Completed
Total Hard Drive Capacity:  590785 MB
Used Space:  184589 MB
Unused Space:  406196 MB

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Volume Name:  Volume_2
Volume Type:  RAID 0
Total Hard Drive Capacity:  294084 MB
Used Space:  33 MB
Unused Space:  279112 MB

one RAID1 Array for personal data and a second RAID0 Array for Downloads, Gentoo distfiles etc. I have Gigabit so RAID0 is useful for me.

Although the Webinterface does not offer this selection I managed to configure it over telnet and now it's even recognized by the Webinterface.

Seagate Baracuda ES.2 500GB work in the DNS-323 with FW 1.03 and 1.04B84.

# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: Seagate  Model: ST3500320NS      Rev: SN04
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03


and a Seagate Baracuda ES.2 750GB with FW 1.04B84.

Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: Seagate  Model: ST3750330NS      Rev: SN04
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03


marinalink

Last edited by marinalink (2008-05-31 18:41:42)

2 Seagate barracuda 500GB ST3500320AS in RAID1 with firmware 1.05

This took me an afternoon to actually get working
if i allocate all the 498GB of the 2 drives in a RAID 1 config, the fw would format the drives then jump from 20% to 100% & report 'success' but a peak at the status would only show a 7 MB drive.

I called d-link support and got assigned  case# CAC1195066,
and was told never seen an issue like that yah right

So I tried many permutations 1 drive standard, 2 standard 2 JBOD, that all worked but as RAID I was left with 7MB, I down graded to 1.04 same 7MB...

So then I tried a RAID 1 with  any thing less than the full 498GB well then i got a Volume_1 Raid 1 & Volume_2 JBOD and now the RAID 1` works
So if anyone else cant get a RAID1 working try just not allocating the full disk space & allow a small JOB & a RAID 1

Last edited by tc66 (2008-05-27 04:47:55)

Thanks for replying!

I bought a WD10EACS (Western Digital Green Power 1TB) to replace one of my two ST3500630AS (Seagate Barracuda 500GB).

Short: I works great. Although the device says that it's at 41 degree Celsius it doesn't feel as warm as it was with the two Seagates. The drive is running much more silent than before. You can barely hear the heads moving - this was the loudest noise using the Barracudas.

To replace the drive I followed this procedure: I drew a backup from my formerly RAID1 to an external 500GB USB disk, removed both disks and set up the DNS-323 completely new. (As a benefit I was able to upgrade to Firmware 1.04 1/10/2008.)
After fun_plug'ing the device and installing the USB kernel module I copied the files back from the external USB disk to the new 1TB drive installed in the device.
After that, I was able to start the (sarge) chroot'ed lighttpd with its Python fastcgi script and the MLDonkey immediately. No further adoptions necessary.

I always wanted to get rid of the RAID1 configuration after I've read here that the better solution is a daily backup from one disk to another. Thus, I'm going to insert one of the old Seagates to run a cron job rsync'ing selected folders from the 1TB to the 500GB disk.

Yours,
Bernhard

Two WD Caviar Green 1 TB SATA Hard Drives ( WD10EACS )
* in RAID 1
* with Firmware 1.05
* continuous writing for >2 hours and temp is 41c (room temp 21c)
* they do spin-down as expected, even with USB printer attached and on (H.P. PSC-1210 for what it's worth)
     ^ maybe this was fixed in firmware released after the posts where I saw this was an issue?

The drives are virtually silent.

Now that I've read about the (dis)ability of the DNS-323 to properly report drive failures, I'm in the process of reformatting to just a pair of disks and I'll be using rsync to backup to one drive, then do a crontab mirroring once per day...