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| 47 of 47 people found the following review helpful By This review is from: D-Link ShareCenter Pulse 2-bay Network Storage Enclosure (Electronics) Well after investigating into many different NAS devices or solutions, I decided to go for the Dlink, mainly due to price, but also after hearing some good reviews of their previous models.Firstly, Delivery was fine - I opted for 2 Samsung F3 1TB disk drives along with the Dlink chassis, all of which were well packaged and easily opened. Opening the boxes I was pleasantly suprised - a nice small unit (not much bigger than the 2 disks side-by-side that looked the part, although it's more "plasticy" than it looks in the pictures. Simple installation - pop the two drives in through the top of the unit, plug in and power up. Supplied CD detects the device on your network, and walks you through the setup. Only issues I came across were 1) The DynDNS wouldn't detect my account, although it instantly worked after the setup completed, and I can't seem to be able to rename the volume, it defaults to "volume_1". Once all powered up, the device is virtually silent,... Read more 25 of 25 people found the following review helpful By This review is from: D-Link ShareCenter Pulse 2-bay Network Storage Enclosure (Electronics) I've owned this NAS system for just over a week and thought I would share some of my findings on it so far:Running via a 10/100Mbit router with Seagate 2TB 5900Rpm green drive (also bought from amazon). Firmware updated to 2.00. Although the D-Link support site doesn't show it, there is an updated firmware - follow their link to their firmware 'archive' and you'll go to the ftp server where you will see a 25Mb update file for v2.00. Pros: Very good price and as always, Amazon delivered quickly. Looks smart and inconspicuous. Reasonably intuitive setup and decently featured for a budget drive. Very easy to configure, albeit basic, RAID. Decent basic power management for HDDs. HDD installation is easy. Almost instant setup. NAS and HDD combo is very quiet & the NAS fan is efficient at maintaining a low HDD temp. Cons: It is very plasticy and has a cheap fell, and the piano black exterior... Read more 58 of 60 people found the following review helpful By This review is from: D-Link ShareCenter Pulse 2-bay Network Storage Enclosure (Electronics) I looked around for various NAS storage devices, and while some unknown brands seemed ok I have come to learn with experience that when it comes to spending more than �10 on devices you best get a BRAND name product. This is no exception, and proved to be a good choice. The Case is cheap plastic but the thing works well so far.Also if you're going to rely on this for RAID 1 (mirroring ) no doubt you need it because you want your data duplicated to a second drive and this is what it does in the background invisibly . The quick setup runs like a charm so I am happy with that. I did a test comparing the speed of a 600mb file from an INTERNAL drive to a USB drive and then again from INTERNAL drive to the D-Link NAS and while it was 3 times slower than USB2, that was only because my hub is 100mb so if I get a 1000mb HUB it should be faster or at least the same speed as USB 2 . More than happy at its current speed . I Have watched a HI Def Film (Avatar 4 GIGS ) over the network... Read more |