I guess you have heard about Advanced Format hard disks – large capacities hard disks that utilizes 4KB data sectors instead of 512B sectors. Advanced Format uses storage surface area more efficiently, allowing manufacturers to roll out higher density disk platters. This is because 4KB (4096B) with ECC block takes far less real estate on the disk platter than eight 512B with ECC blocks.

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The change in the location of hard disk mounting point in the DNS-320 broke fonz’s fun_plug. fonz’s fun_plug was created to run on earlier D-Link NAS (DNS-313, DNS-323, DNS-343) whose Volume_1 was mounted at /mnt/HD_a2. In DNS-320′s case, Volume_1 was actually mounted on /mnt/HD/HD_a2.

This change in mounting point also broke some of the packages created earlier as rely on /mnt/HD_a2 for storage. Transmission Bittorrent client (transmissionbt) is one of the packages that won’t run on the DNS-320 out of the box.

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The D-Link DNS-320 outperforms the D-Link DNS-323 in terms of network throughput  for read/write tests.

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D-Link ShareCenter Pulse 2 Bay NAS DNS-320 released at Sitex (November 2010)!

Managed to get my hands on the DNS-320. Speed tests will be conducted later on as the DNS-320 is still formatting the two units of Samsung 2TB F4 drives. Mental note, it formats the Right disk first.

Check out D-Link ShareCenter Pulse DNS-320 deals on Amazon.

So in the mean time, enjoy the pictures first!

Seems like D-Link released a new NAS (Network Attached Storage) – the DNS-320. D-Link (Australia) featured it as coming soon, hope it will arrive in Singapore for Sitex (November 2010).

Wonder if it would be cheaper than the DNS-323! Can’t wait for people to review the DNS-320! Wonder how is the performance. Any insider news on the DNS-320?

Getting a DNS-320?

Check out D-Link ShareCenter Pulse 2 Bay NAS DNS-320 deals on Amazon.com

Tried my luck (again) at compiling MLDonkey 3.0.4. Installation instructions are similar to previous versions (e.g. MLDonkey 2.9.7). This should be the last time I will be compiling MLDonkey for the D-Link NAS. If there are any issues with the package. Do inform me.

1. mldonkey lite – supports filetp, bittorrent
2. mldonkey lite (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent
3. mldonkey normal – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey
4. mldonkey normal (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey
5. mldonkey full – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey, directconnect
6. mldonkey full (no gd) – supports filetp, bittorrent, edonkey, directconnect