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D-Link DNS-343 NAS Enclosure
The D-Link® 4-Bay Network Storage Enclosure (DNS-343) is the perfect way to store, share, and safeguard your documents, music, videos, and photos. With the D-Link tool-less installation, you can easily insert up to 4 SATA drives1 without any tools or attaching any cables. Plus, the DNS-343 is a scalable solution, allowing you to start off with one SATA hard disk drive (HDD) and add up to 3 more as you grow.
Protection, Performance and Flexibility
By supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, and JBOD, the DNS-343 gives you a variety of data protection options to help avoid data loss due to hard drive failure. RAID 0 combines all drives in a ‘striped’ configuration, splitting data evenly across the hard drives to provide the highest performance. RAID 1 causes two drives to mirror each other, providing maximum protection. If there are four drives present, you can set up two separate RAID 1 partitions. If one drive fails, the unaffected drive in the partition will continue to operate normally. Once you replace the failed drive, RAID 1 mirroring will resume and both drives will mirror each other again. Advanced RAID 5 offers the highest performance with the most reliable data recovery in the case of a drive failure. RAID 5 technology uses a clever algorithm to distribute your data over 4 SATA hard disk drives and, in the case of a hard drive failure, the DNS-343 will continue to function with your data intact.
Simplified Management
With the included Memeo™ software, you can create schedules and rules including real-time full or incremental backups and storage quotas for specific users and groups. Using Memeo backup software, you can automatically back up your data onto the DNS-343, creating a failsafe protection solution from accidental data loss on your PC. The 4-Bay Network Storage Enclosure features an OLED to display important information including IP address, hard drive statistics, temperature, RAID status, and server status (FTP and UPnP™).
USB Port Functionality
The USB port can act as a print server port, allowing a USB printer to be added to your network without the need for a dedicated computer. The USB port can also support a Universal Power Supply (UPS) monitor that supports ‘smart’ signaling over a USB connection. If a power outage were to occur, the compatible UPS monitor would allow the UPS unit to safely shut down the DNS-343. When power is restored, the UPS monitor would then automatically power up the DNS-343.
For flexible usage, the DNS-343 includes features such as a built-in FTP server2 to access files over the Internet and a UPnP™ Media server to stream digital content to compatible media players. With RAID 5 technology, an OLED that displays vital storage information, a management program that allows you to easily set rules and schedules, and a variety of built-in servers, the 4-Bay Network Storage Enclosure (DNS-343) is a secure expandable and reliable storage solution for the home and business.
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Specifications
Hot-Swap Bays:
4
Number Of Hard Drives Bays:
4
Networking Standards:
IEEE 802.3u 100Base-TX Fast Ethernet
IEEE 802.3 10Base-T Ethernet
IEEE 802.3ab 1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet
Dimensions:
5.1” x 7.9” x 7.2”
Detailed Features
A Closer Look
Features
Easily Insert up to 4 SATA Hard Drives1 Without Using Tools
Protect Important Files Using RAID 1 or RAID 5 Technology
Access Stored Files Over the Internet
OLED Display Screen
Customer Reviews and Rating
Customer Rating:
4.2
Customer Reviews:
4
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Value
4.0
Features
4.3
Quality
4.3
Performance
4.3
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Great NAS
Reviewer:
manz97 on
Nov 10, 2009 Customer Rating:
3.8
Value
3.0
Features
4.0
Quality
4.0
Performance
4.0
Although a little pricey, I do love this little baby, because of what it does. It gives you Raid in different versions. Easy setup and no problems yet. If your doing a web ftp it's not free but an affordable premium price yearly of thirty bucks.
Great NAS
Reviewer:
camargo on
Sep 28, 2009 Customer Rating:
4.8
Value
5.0
Features
5.0
Quality
5.0
Performance
4.0
This is the best device out there for the price and number of bays.
I've purchased 2 of them for extreme redundancy first one running at RAID 0 for performance and the second one holding all data from the first as a backup.
not one issue yet.
Well worth the price
Reviewer:
Jim on
Aug 19, 2009 Customer Rating:
4.0
Value
4.0
Features
4.0
Quality
4.0
Performance
4.0
I purchased this product 2 months ago and have been totally happy. I recieved the product within 2 days of ordering and had it set up that evening.
The setup instructions are easy to follow and seem to be very complete. To longest part of the process was waiting for the drives to format. I installed 4 500GB harddrives in RAID5. After the overhead for raid, OS, FTP and print servers I had over 1.4 TB of usable storage space. I use it to share media files and documents across my home network with no issues.
Excellent Home NAS!!
Reviewer:
Agent-V on
Jun 26, 2009 Customer Rating:
4.3
Value
4.0
Features
4.0
Quality
4.0
Performance
5.0
Bought this a few months ago. Does most of what I expected it to do. It is flawless in its network file sharing capability. I have Ubuntu, Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 machines as well as two OSX systems, all work extremely well with this NAS. Most recent firmware includes Vista 64bit support. My favorite feature is the iTunes music server which is one of the primary reasons I bought it. Only 4 stars because I couldn't get the UPS monitor or the Print Server functionality working with my setup. Otherwise the device is rock solid and has been running almost continuously for 7 months without freezing or crashing.
What is RAID?
RAID is an acronym first defined back in 1987 to describe a redundant array of
inexpensive disks, a technology that allowed computer users to achieve high
levels of storage reliability from low-cost PC hard disk drives, via the
technique of arranging the devices into an array for fail-safe redundancy.
"RAID" is now used as an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that
can divide and replicate data among multiple hard disk drives. The different
schemes/architectures are named by the word RAID followed by a number, as in
RAID 0, RAID 1, etc. RAID's various designs involve two key elements: increased
data reliability or increased input/output performance. When multiple physical
disks are set up to use RAID technology, they are said to be in a RAID array.
This array distributes data across multiple disks, but the array is seen by the
computer user and operating system as one single disk. RAID can be set up to
serve several different purposes.
Organizing disks into a redundant array decreases the total usable storage
capacity. For instance, a 2-disk RAID 1 array loses half of the total capacity
that would have otherwise been available using both disks independently, and a
RAID 5 array with several disks loses the capacity of one whole disk. Other
types of RAID arrays are arranged so that they are faster to write to and read
from than a single disk.
There are various combinations of these
configurations giving different trade-offs and benefits of protection against
data loss, capacity, and speed. RAID levels 0, 1, and 5 are the most commonly
found, and cover most of the typical requirements.
RAID 0 (striped disks) distributes data
across several disks in a way that gives improved speed at any given instant. If
one disk fails, however, all of the data on the array will be lost, as there is
neither parity nor mirroring.
RAID 1 mirrors the contents of the
disks, making a 1:1 (1 to 1) ratio real-time backup. The contents of each disk
in the array are identical to that of every other disk in the array.
RAID 3 uses a striped set with
dedicated parity or bit interleaved parity or byte level parity. This
mechanism provides fault tolerance similar to RAID 5. However, because the strip
across the disks is a lot smaller than a file system block, reads and writes to
the array perform like a single drive with a high linear write performance. If
one drive fails, the performance doesn't change.
RAID 5 (striped disks with parity)
combines three or more disks in a way that protects against data loss of any one
disk. The storage capacity of the array is reduced by the capacity of the one
disk (all disks are of equal size).
RAID 6 (striped disks with dual parity)
can recover from the loss of two disks.
RAID 10 (or 1+0) uses both striping and
mirroring. ("01" or "0+1" is sometimes distinguished from "10" or "1+0": a
striped set of mirrored subsets and a mirrored set of striped subsets are both
valid, but distinct, configurations.)
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D-Link DNS-343 NAS Enclosure - 4Bay, SATA, RAID 0/1/5
$349.99*
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D-Link Warranty provided by:
D-Link Limited Warranty:
12 months parts;
12 months labor
Mfg Part No:
DNS-343 UPC No:
790069313745 Box Size:
( Length:
13, Width:
11, Depth:
11 )
Shipping Weight:
10.2000 pound(s)
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