Over All Rating Reviews :
It's very simple to set up. You don't need any tools, and just pop in one or two drives (I'm using two Samsung 1.5TB SATA drives), follow simple on-screen instructions to set it up, and there you go. I've set up mine as RAID-0 with a total capacity of 2.7TB (because manufacturer's 1.5TB = Microsoft Windows' 1.35TB or so), and it sits quietly in the corner of my office, connected to a gigabit hub. Every night my computers execute backups to it, and every night it runs smoothly. Out of sight, out of mind, except for the peace of mind coming from knowing that my data is backed up. It's very quiet and also stays cool. You can specify the drives' power-down period so that the drives are not always spinning. As others have noted, despite its gigabit network connection, you rarely get faster than about 120-150Mbit/sec (and that's when transferring large--hundreds of megabyte--files; smaller files, such as images from digital cameras, will slow down the transfer speed very significantly); this seems to be fairly typical of home NAS enclosures in this price range.
All in all, I'm very happy with the DNS-321 for my backup solution. I wouldn't recommend it as a live, online data storage for your everyday files due to its less-than-stellar transfer speed, but for routine, scheduled backups--it's a stellar product.
One more note about backups not pertaining to this drive: If you are serious about backing up your data, be sure to store a set of data away from home--at work or at friend's/relative's house--as a safeguard for those times of emergency when you can't get back to your house to retrieve your valuables. In addition to my NAS boxes, I keep two sets of backup drives, one at home and one at work, and rotate them every month or so.
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