DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

Yes - you could, but, have you considered size, noise, heat and power consumption?

See now - if the functionality and/or performance barely meets requirements leaves a tremendous grey area - whose requirements are we talking about.

The device(s) are advertised as NAS servers, and whilst I haven't (and may never) used the DNS-343, the DNS-323 certainly meets my requirements in terms of functionality and performance as a NAS server, yes, there are a few features that would have been nice to have such as UPS monitoring & shutdown, and unattended startup.

What was the other comment - if the manufacturer does not provide an adequate level of functionality and support for the advertised features of it's products (ie by removing features instead of fixing them or being slow to fix major flaws) - I guess that would be in reference to the removal of ext3, what can I say - other than I don't miss it.

As I understand it, the advantages of ext3 over ext2 is that it is a journalling file system and more reliable in the event of an improper shutdown - my answer to that would be to put the DNS-323 on a UPS and then make sure to shut it down properly - and yes - I do have mine on a UPS.

A part of my response, both this one and the previous one, stems from a certain degree of "bemusement" at the users here wanting to add functionality perhaps beyond my wildest imagination to the unit - I could not understand why they would not/could not just do as you suggest, and assemble a nice PC and be done with it, rather than struggle with the limited hardware resources and the cross compilation required to make this NAS into a webserver/media server/SQL server/<insert-your-particular-dream-here>

Although I am verry happy with my Conceptronic CH3SNAS at the moment, I must say that this is not because of the out of the box delivered feature called UPnP AV media server (DLNA 1.0 and UPnP compliant). The server had problems in serving about 50% of my music to my UPnP AV compatible media player because it didn't like some filenames... It took me a few weeks to understand telnet, funplug, ssh, linux etc. before I could replace the standard player with my own version of firefly/mt-daapd. After that I decided to add a recycle bin and a newsleecher and I am very happy now. I learned something about Linux and I enjoyed it. My point is that there is minimal manufacturer support on improving the UPnP feature. Also the list of other reported bugs gives me the impression of cheap development, test and release strategy. On the other hand the product is cheap, so you can't expect Cisco support...

I like the quality of the hardware, but the software could be better. I expect the hardware quality of the DNS 343 to be in line with the 323. If the software quality and support of DNS 343 is better than the 323, then this product could get massive attention...

Last edited by EnricoM (2008-07-15 20:32:16)