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 […]

I’m famous!  Well, almost.  My first article on Virtual Federation has been published over at the Sun Developer Network.  Many thanks to Marina Sum for all her hard work and to Pat Patterson for his support and kind words.
This first article focuses on the business value and high-level architecture of OpenSSO’s virtual federation component, while […]

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 […]

Here’s a guest post from someone who followed my first article on hacking the D-Link DNS-323.  I’m grateful to see the sense of community forming here and people giving back!

Hey kids, so remember my original post on dns-323 hacking?  Well I’m back at it.  In Part 1 I decided not to use RAID 1 mirroring for a couple of reasons (see section 2 — RAID or no RAID?).  Instead, what I’m doing for redundancy is selectively backing up a set of “important” data from […]