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

I have the DNS-323 for about 3 weeks now. It's definitely not "the best" device. In it's price range, most possibly.
Regarding your requirements: It can do all that, but not out of the box.
I'm doing 1+2. 3 Is possible, but that will require installing some community-created software on the DNS-323.

I would just like to point out that you wouldn't be changing the firmware.  When a script fun_plug is created on the first disk, this gets run when the DNS-323 boots and from there you can basically get access to the underline operating system (Linux), and do lots of things.  Fonz's fun_plug ffp is one of the best places to start:
http://dns323.kood.org/howto:ffp

If you look at the packages he has compiled up:
http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/0.5/PACKAGES.html

You see there is quite a bit and the optware packages can be used too:
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optwa … /unstable/

The box is not going have the best network performance or CPU/memory, but it is low power, and can certainly can do lots of things you wouldn't think it could do if you are willing/able to customize it.

I actually run two Windows 7 machines that have all important data stored on the DNS-323, and then have backup script running each night that makes copies all that data on the second drive, and on an offline storage backup (Amazon Simple Storage Server).  And it is great because the Windows machines don't have to be constantly running just the DNS-323.  to make that possible and more I have Perl, Python, SubVersion running.  When I bought the DNS-323 a year or two ago I had no idea that I could do so much with it.

The main thing about the RSS would be has the program you want been cross-compiled to run on the DNS-323 (and that it doesn't take too much RAM or CPU).  Since I don't which programs do RSS torrent I can't really tell you if there is already an existing program compiled up for that.

"Automatic" is a great add-on that provides RSS capabilities for "Transmission", the BT replacement client.

Automatic http://dns323.kood.org/forum/viewtopic. … 91&p=1
Transmission http://dns323.kood.org/forum/t2719-%5BR … ssion.html

Optional UI's
http://code.google.com/p/transmission-remote-dotnet/
or
http://code.google.com/p/transmisson-remote-gui/

FWIW - In its price range, I love this unit and now have 2 of them since I liked the first one.

I use it ony for the basic functions though and a few modified programs (ffp, transmission, automatic). Some of the original DLInk programs suck such as BT and the media servers.

Last edited by FunFiler (2010-08-22 16:04:16)

I think the device does what it's supposed to do and you get value for you money. I think this device has only one downside and that is its transfer speed. Compared to other (more expensive) NAS devices, the transferrates of the DNS-323 are very slow. So if you need more speed, go for another system.