D-Link ShareCenter Cloud Storage 4000 4-Bay (Diskless) Network Attached Storage (DNS-345)

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Product Feature

• The perfect way to store and share your documents, music, videos, and photos with anyone on your network
• Personal cloud portal to remotely access files and stream media without special network configuration
• Supports PCs, Macs and mobile devices - iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets, BlackBerry and Microsoft mobile devices
• Surveillance station supports recording and playback of IP video from up to 4 cameras
• DLNA server to stream music, photos and videos to compatible media players including the Boxee Box by D-Link, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360
• 4-bay enclosure ideal for DIY customers wanting to use/source their own disk drive(s) - insert up to four 3.5-Inch SATA disk drives without any tools or attaching any cables
• Seven different RAID configurations allow for ultimate flexibility between storage capacity, resillience and performance
• Supports up to 16 TB storage capacity using 4 TB disk drives

Product Description

The D-Link ShareCenter Cloud Storage 4000 device (DNS-345) is the perfect way to share, stream and remotely access digital media over your network or the Internet.

D-Link ShareCenter Cloud Storage 4000 4-Bay (Diskless) Network Attached Storage (DNS-345) Review

The D-Link DNS-320L is an upgrade of the DNS-320. It has a faster processor on board and design changes to the box. I've just had it a few days and it seems to function fine. The on-board fan has high and low speeds and defaults to off/low/high so it runs quietly most of the time (although the low speed fan isn't loud) when it is backing up, but sleeps when not in use. I am a Mac user so it is important to note that this device works fine with Time Machine. It mounts when it is time to back up and unmounts afterwards.

I am running OSX Lion (10.7.5) and it is important to note that the Set Up Wizard that comes on the CD is flawed. DO NOT USE IT! Once you get the DNS-320L plugged in to your network, go to it via the Web interface. There is a set up wizard in the Web GUI that will help with the basic setup, and then you can go Management-Disk Management and set up your Hard Drive Configuration (which will format the drive(s)), then go over to Applications-Local Backups-Time Machine where you can enable Time Machine (which starts the AFP service) and then add individual shares under Settings for each machine you want to back up. I also recommend creating a user for the back up connections because if you try to connect to the NAS with the admin password, Time Machine will ask you to change it. Not the case with a mere user.

The problem with the Set Up Wizard failure is that it apparently is the only way you can set up an account with mydlink.com, which is how you can connect to the NAS from your smart phone or tablet (iPhone and iPad in my case). My desire to do this led to a great deal of aggravation because when it fails, it corrupts your password and configuration, and I had to reformat the drive (losing backups that took a long time to do, about 3.25 hrs. for 156 gigs). I've filed a support ticket and hope this gets resolved soon. Meanwhile, if you are a Mac user, some features of the DNS-320L will not be available to you.

Bottom Line: Incremental backups are quick and automatic for my little Mac server and iMac. That's what I wanted. The set up and personal cloud functions are up in the air for now.

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