I've got a pair of WD 500gb RE2 drives in my D-Link DNS-323 NAS. It's gigabit and the drives are mirrored. Typically getting 3-6MByte/sec :-( Was getting a bit more when they were not super full... maybe twice that... but still nothing near where the drives or the LAN are capable of. I'm gonna be throwing some 1.5 or 2tb drives into the box soon, probably seagate 1.5tb 7200.11's but I dunno if I wanna spend the money if I can't get some better speed. Anyone have experience with the 323?
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Increase speed on D-Link DNS-323
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I don't actually have this device, but I just wanted to point out that even D-Link's documentation (ftp://ftp10.dlink.com/pdfs/products/DNS-323/DNS-323_ds_ca.pdf) claims that when the drives are running in RAID-0, you will get only 23MB/sec reads. So I don't think you'll approach LAN/HD speeds in RAID-1 no matter which HD you get.
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Ya, I have one just as a backup to a backup solution with twin Seagate 1.5TB 7200.11s in RAID-1. It's quicker than 3-6Mbps, but the performance is still pretty craptacular. Reads I pull around 16-20MB/s with large files whereas writes are around 8-12MB/s with the same large files.
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yeah thats is about the best that device does. it's a very slow device.
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I have the 323 with a pair of WD 1TB Greens in Raid 1 (mirrored). I think I get about 14MB/s when I pull data from the 323 to my PC via gigabit wired network, and about 10MB/s write.
Wa wa waaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Well thanx for the replys everyone 
I guess I can buy some slower drives to stick in there until I build a new desktop when the 32nm chips roll out. I know the WD green has problems in RAID as the drives power themselves down in some way that screws up RAID. May just stick with my plan to get the 7200.11's better cost per gb. I'm hoping they'll drop to down from 120 at some point soon with all the new 1tb+ sized drives.
I guess I can buy some slower drives to stick in there until I build a new desktop when the 32nm chips roll out. I know the WD green has problems in RAID as the drives power themselves down in some way that screws up RAID. May just stick with my plan to get the 7200.11's better cost per gb. I'm hoping they'll drop to down from 120 at some point soon with all the new 1tb+ sized drives.