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Thursday, September 16, 2010

NetDisk 351UNE 3.5-Inch USB/eSATA/Ethernet Enclosure For USB or Network Storage

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Sep 17, 2010 00:42:40

3.5" USB/eSATA/Ethernet Enclosure For USB or Network Storage

!1: Best Buy At my job, the guys who run one of the biggest and fastest supercomputers in the world just bought a few million dollars worth of solid state drives (SSDs) due to their rapid read/write speeds and low power consumption - so when I wanted to consolidate the stack of 1 and 2 GB camera SD cards in the closet, it struck me that what was good enough for the supercomputers at work was good enough for my little home network. Now I needed a network drive and enclosure.

I had never heard of the the IOCell 351UNE, but this price/performance chart at Small Net Builder sold me on it: [...]

As you'll see if you are able to access the chart, the $/Mbps ratio for this device is in a class of its own. It meets or exceeds the performance of devices that are an order of magnitude more expensive.

Combining the IOCELL 351UNE Network Direct Attached Storage (NDAS)enclosure with a 2.5" PNY 128GB SSD PNY 128 GB Optima SSD SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive (SSD) P-SSD2S128GM-CT01RB and an Icy Dock 2.5" to 3.5" adapter 2.5" To 3.5" Ssd/sata Convert was as close as I was going to get to a fast read/write supercomputer flash drive on my budget. I ordered all three, hoping that everything would fit and play nicely together. So far, I have not been disappointed. The combined unit is cool, silent and consumes very little power without a fan, and just does its job. I can read or write to the drive from anywhere in the house, and my screen savers on the computers are now slide shows that randomly cycle through thousands of family pictures. Boring to anyone else, priceless to me. The software included with the device installed easily on both my Windows Vista (wired) and Windows 7(Wi-fi) laptops -- I have yet to install it on my wife's Vista laptop (Wi-fi), but if anything goes wrong, I'll update the review.

One note: other reviewers have complained that NDAS is not true Network Attached Storage (NAS) and that they can't access the drive remotely over the 'net. To that, I say thank goodness. NAS devices have IP addresses, and IP addresses can be hacked. The 351UNE is not hacker-proof, but miscreants will have a more difficult time finding your data on NDAS than on NAS. on Sale!

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Monday, September 13, 2010

D-Link 4-Bay Network Attached Storage Enclosure DNS-343

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Sep 13, 2010 14:21:27

D-Link DNS343 4-Bay 4 3.5-Inch Bays, SATA, RAID 0/1/5, Gigabit Ethernet Port, USB Print Server Network Storage Enclosure

!1: Best Buy This is my third D-Link NAS. I bought a DNS-323 one year ago and it has been on ever since, serving up files reliably to my PC/Mac home network, downloading torrents, and streaming videos to my PS3/XBOX 360 (after installing Twonky Media Server). Based on my mostly positive experience with D-link products and price-to-features ratio, I decided to stick with the brand. I had wasted money on a Galaxy Metal Gear NAS, and read mostly lukewarm reviews for Netgear, Iomega, Linksys, and other makers. Other NAS devices like the DLNA-enabled Buffalo Technology LinkStation Live were attractive, but their price point or storage capacity was not. I need a large number of bays to create a centralized media server.

When I outgrew the DNS-323, I bought a DNS321 2-bay when I really should have applied that 0 toward this 4-bay product instead. I wanted to consolidate the half dozen 1 TB external drives I had sitting around and network them so I didn't have to keep plugging and unplugging USB cables when I wanted to retrieve files. My home network is heterogeneous and I also needed the ability to write large files (4 GB+) to the drives. FAT32 is the only mutually writable format across XP and Mac, but it has a 4 GB filesize limit, making it impractical for my movie storage needs. The D-Link uses a Linux file system (ext2 or ext3, your choice), so filesize concerns are now gone.

I've had this product for a week, and so far so good. The device can be configured from any web browser, so you don't need the CD (which is a Windows-only configuration app). I have 1 TB Hitachi and WD drives inside. Build quality is solid (made of thick aluminum). It's a brick of a device and looks quite durable.

For the price, I am not expecting world class security and many bells and whistles. I just need it for storing my personal files and media on my home network, and stream them, and for that, it works to my satisfaction. The iTunes server works very nicely. For file transfers, I FTP to it and do all my copying that way. For some reason, the Mac is a lot faster (20MB/sec) than copying from XP (10MB/sec). Vista is the worse, and I usually get 5MB/sec.

It would've been really great for D-link to include BitTorrent support for this, like the DNS-323. Maybe in a future firmware update.

All in all, I'm quite happy with this product. I don't place heavy expectations on it and don't demand ,500 server performance from a 0 device. It was the cheapest 4-bay NAS I could find for the features I wanted and gives great overall performance for the price. You can install telnet on it (look for Fonz's funplug) and open the device up to more hacking if you are so inclined.

Will update this review as I use the device more. on Sale!

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