Bought the D-Link DNS-320 (S$109) and 2x Western Digital 3.5″ SATA Caviar Black 1TB hard drive (S$115 each) at Comex 2011 last weekend.
I still bought back a D-Link NAS after my bad experience with D-Link DNS-323 because the DNS-320 is meant for my mom’s office and D-Link service center is just located behind my mom’s office in case anything happens.
I wanted to get the Synology DS211j instead but unfortunately it is out of my mom’s budget. I initially also wanted to get the Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo, but after reading SmallNetBuilder’s review on it, I decided to give it a miss as the review was pretty bad.
The differences between DNS-320 and DNS-323 is quite significant. Now the hard disk is loaded via the top which makes it slightly easier to install as compared to front loading. The user interface has also been revamped and now it bares no resemblance to the usual orange/white/grey D-Link’s interface, it is a much welcomed change but it is a little laggy though. So far for NAS, I have not seen a better web interface than Synology’s DiskStation Manager (DSM).
For a more technical review, check out my friend, shadowandy, blog post entitled D-Link DNS-320 – Layman speed test.
Hi Lester,
How is the read/write speed for this one? Wired and wireless?
Thanks.
Hey qureyoon!
Check out my friend’s review on it for a more technical in-dept http://www.shadowandy.net/2010/11/d-link-dns-320-layman-speed-test.htm
Hi Lester,
Thanks for the link. It’s a good read.
I’ve been wanting to get a NAS now. Last week I bought the ACRyan PlayonHD2, but so far the speed is disappointing 😐
Only get around 3MB-5MB copying files, both using Samba and FTP.
Further exploring says that it’s only Gigabit when doing streaming to the PlayonHD2 😐
So I figured I might as well get a NAS and stream the files from there to the PlayonHD2 and play it.
Anyway… thanks again 🙂
I got the PlayonHD but the first version but the speed is horrible as it is 10/100. The 2 is slight better with support for gigabit lan but I didn’t know that gigabit is for streaming only WTF!
If you have budget, I would go for Synology https://lesterchan.net/blog/2010/01/26/synology-disk-station-ds210j/ (the updated model is DS211J)
Ya.. this is really ridiculous, it’s FALSE advertising!
I’ve only found out later on after browsing over their forums 😐
Here’s their reply when asked about the network speed (highlighted for your convenience):
The most we can get is only 7MB based on other users experience.
I’ll take a look at Synology. Thanks.
Hm.. don’t know why the link is not showing.
Damn, I am getting 3MB/s only when copy files to it via PlayOn 1. Damn disappointed with PlayOn 2. Thanks for bringing this up.
I’m going to try their claim about the Gigabit streaming thing 😐
So far, streaming FROM Playon2 to laptop is a bit lagging (my friends who rent a room in my house say). But when I tried it with my laptop, it’s playing fine.
I’m going to try the other way around now, from my laptop to Playon2. Let’s see how it goes.
Err… just realize the picture is tiny! 🙁
Here’s the correct one:
Woot thanks but the domain referral is block! I have registered the site with imageshack, hope it will be live soon