Use your DNS-323 as a media server?  Want to stream all your videos to your TV?  Cheaply?
Enter xbox media centre.  The little piece of software I used to love on my old black brick original xbox (modded, of course).  But not just for xbox anymore!  Cheap nettops are here, paving the way for super affordable […]

As you guys might have noticed, both myself and my blog updates have been scarce.  Life has gotten busy with other things and other little  projects.  I appreciate all the comments that have followed the articles and I have learned a lot from the community this little project blog has fostered.  Thank you!  I had […]

I’ve had my poor man’s apple time capsule running for a little over six months now, and recently Time Machine started spewing errors.
I tried running a Disk Utility “repair” on the affected volume to no avail.  Something about an “invalid sibling link”.
Apparently, it doesn’t like it when you close your Macbook’s lid too many times […]

Reader Kolonel2 to the rescue with a much-requested feature — A script that stops Transmission seeding once it’s seeded to 100%.  Sharing is caring, people!

In an earlier post, I described how to use smartctl to see if the hard disks in your NAS were affected by the recent Seagate firmware issues.  In this post I describe the steps I took to upgrade the firmware of both drives in my NAS.  Note:  This article is not specific to DNS-323 users, […]

Hey all… Just wanted to write a quick post asking if anyone else has had issues with firmware 1.06 not loading the ffp modules after a reboot?  I’m not sure if it’s 1.06 or if I broke something while tinkering, but I simply cannot get the 323 to pick up the fun_plug on the reboot.  […]

The recent Seagate hard drive debacle combined with the timely discussions on Time Machine restores got me thinking.
When I architect enterprise systems for my clients, I’m always talking about the same things:  performance, capacity, availability and security.  These concepts sound simple enough up front, but when we get down to it, there’s always more to […]

Hey kids. So in my first post I alluded to the fact that I was going to enable the USB port on the back of the NAS for other stuff. Shame on me for not actually having gotten around to it until now.
We’re going to load a USB driver in the 323’s linux […]

Sounds like the big thing everyone is concerned with is the high rate of failure with Seagate’s 1-1.5TB drives.  There’s a firmware update available, and it will probably be a good idea to upgrade the drive firmware if you are affected.  Actually updating the firmware from two drives plugged into my 323 will be a […]

Just wanted to report that my upgrade to 1.06 was a success.  Mostly.
I downloaded the 1.06 firmware update from D-Link’s support site, unzipped the file, and then pointed the 323 web interface to it.  It flashed successfully, and everything booted up without issue.
However, I’d been having minor problems with the embedded iTunes server (mt-daapd) not […]