--- title: D-Link DNS-323 + Wall-E date: 2008-09-01 00:30:19 permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2008/09/01/d-link-dns-323-wall-e/ author: Lester Chan categories: - "Movie & TV Show" - Network - Storage tags: - Comex - D-Link - DNS-323 - Fuwell - NAS - Wall-E - Western Digital --- ## Comex 2008 Comex 2008 was held in Suntec City Convention Center from the 28th August 2008 to the 31st August 2008. I hooted the following: For My Mom: - Canon Color Ink For Canon Printer MX700 – S$50 (Free S$10 NTUC Vouchers) - 2x Canon Black Ink For Canon Printer MX700 – S$44 (Free S$5 NTUC Vouchers) For Li Xiang: - Canon Color Ink Value Pack Canon Printer MP160 – S$55 (Free S$5 NTUC Vouchers) - Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse – S$19.90 For Myself: - D-Link DNS-323 – S$199 (Sim Lim Square’s Fuwell selling for S$235) ## D-Link DNS-323 I have been aiming for the DNS-323 for quite a couple of weeks, Fuwell is selling for $235 which is a little steep. I am quite surprise Comex is only selling for $199 as from what I heard PC Show 2008 which is held back in June is selling for $189. But nevertheless, it is still cheaper than $235. I went to Comex on Thursday, 28th August 2008, and at 12pm sharp, when the doors are open, I headed straight to the D-Link booth. I have already did my homework on where the booth is located. Once I am at the booth, I told the temp staff I want the DNS-323 and he got stun for a few seconds as I think he didn’t expect me to buy it so fast, if I am not wrong, I am the first customer of the booth. 2 weeks before Comex 2008, I have already went to Sim Lim Square’s Fuwell to buy Western Digital Caviar Green Power (GP) 1TB for S$220. At that time I did not want to run RAID 1 and hence I only bought 1 HDD. But after getting the DNS-323 and playing it on Friday, I decided to try RAID 1 and hence the next day I went to Sim Lim Square’s Fuwell to get the exact same hard drive which I bought 2 weeks ago. The price is still the same. Western Digital Green Power hard drive is fantastic, it is very quiet, even when I put the 2 hard drives into the DNS-323, overall it is still quiet. The only irritating thing is the blue LED lights which is so bright when all the lights are off. I got a major problem when running RAID 1 on the DNS-323, the formatting of drives always get stuck at 94% and after lots of goggling, I realized that it is a firmware bug. I downgraded to 1.04 (currently is 1.05) and set the inactivity timer to 90mins instead of the default value and that seems to solve the problem. ![D-Link DNS-323 Box](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/dlink/dns323/box.jpg) ![D-Link DNS-323 Box Contents](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/dlink/dns323/contents.jpg) ![Western Digital Caviar Green Power (GP) 1TB](https://files.lesterchan.net/photos/dlink/dns323/hdd.jpg) ## Space Chimps Caught Space Chimps a couple of weeks ago and the movie was just average, the funniest part of the movie are all in the trailer. ## Death Race Caught Death Race last week, starring Jason Statham, Joan Allen and Ian McShane. It is directed by Paul WS Anderson. The movie was good and basically it is a action packed movie almost throughout the whole movie. ## WALL-E WALL-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class and EVE stands for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator. I have been wanting to watch this movie since the trailer aired in Singapore quite a number of months ago. Managed to catch it at GV Max on Friday midnight show. The show was good in terms of both storyline and humor. Go and catch it. I saw the toy selling for S$19.90 for both WALL-E and EVE. So tempted to get it but in the end didn’t get it. You can [view the toys here](http://www.toywiz.com/walle.html). ## Dad’s Back For 4 Days My dad came back on Saturday for 4 days and will be leaving on Tuesday, 2nd September 2008. Vietnam has a public holiday and his company give them another day off and my dad just need to take 1 day leave and he can come back for 4 days. We have been bringing him around eating and eating as Hanoi food is not suitable for him. He lost about 2kg and now I can see his 6-pack. The next time he will be back shall be in December 2008 where his contract ends. He might renew his contact if the offer is good.