Unfortunately no one can be told what fun_plug is - you have to see it for yourself.
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I have had it with bugs and problems.
I had used the 323 for backup for most of my important files, finding that when I try to copy from the 323 back to my PC larger files would not copy.
I cant have that, and I have lost faith in the 323 as a backup device.
I have now moved on to a DROBO, it looks great.
If someone is interested in my 323 cheap let me know....
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I'm thinking you either had a defective unit or have been doing something wrong.
I got my DNS-323 in January and have been using it as a disk-to-disk backup destination with both Backup Exec and Acronis True Image - so far I have not needed to do a restore from a Backup Exec backup, but the compare at the end of the job has always worked, and on two occasions I've restored from the Acronis backups, the first being a 13 GB image and the second 65 GB image, so there is no problem with large files.
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This depends of course on the firmware. Version before 1.03 had serious problems with files large 2GB.
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Either he didn't get the 1.03 (which seems unlikely, if he's been reading this forum) or as Fordem notes, he has a bad unit (or bad drive(s))? I've copied files >15G in both directions (to/from DNS-323), no problems here w/the files on either end.
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I have used V1.03 firmware, I am talking two 500 Gig drives, one 90% full.
I have had file name issues and file size issues, also had problems with to many files.
I have waited for fixes and read this forum, I did not want to have to hack the unit to get it to work correctly.
I should not have to hack a fix for samba.
I thought the ftp backup would be a great feature, but after two weeks, it lost all config data.
I agree this is a great unit, if you want to get in and hack it, but as for a worry free Windows backup device I do think it works very well.
Also both drives are good, ie dropped them in the Drobo with no issues at all.
As you said maybe the 323 has issues but I doubt it, I have read about many of these issues on this forum. Maybe I needed to go back to V1.02 but my data needs to be safe, and I gave it a couple of chances.
Last edited by dpotter (2007-06-25 22:18:42)
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Drobo looks cool but it isn't a NAS like the DNS plus it's much more expensive
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It is too bad you're having problems, but they are the exception, not the rule...
And just to be clear, I haven't seen any need to hack the DNS-323 to use it as a simple Windows back-up unit...I have been doing that daily for the past six or more weeks, no issues. Connected it to my network, set up drives on 1.02, installed 1.03, set up backups to run using a program called Second Copy (I have backups running both to and from the DNS-323, backing up to it in some instances, backing up from it in other instances). Also use the DNS-323 as the data drive for home network (kids/wife accessing it (read/write) daily, our Apple iTunes music is stored there, and am serving web pages from it (via Fonz's fun_plug and Lighttpd). Haven't dropped a single bit to date. I also talked a buddy of mine into getting one, and he is thrilled...has three teenage daughters and has been able to move all their music and photos to the DNS-323 so they all have read/write access to it from their computers and peace has returned to his home. All of that requires zero hacks, other than the fun_plug for lighttpd and web page serving. And it's hardly a hack, just installed some additional services, no firmware or other "heavy" mods.
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