10/100TX Network Storage Adapter, 2 USB 2.0 Ports

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Summary: Be careful before you buy this...
Review: D-Link really did a good job of taking a product by Linksys, and blowing it out of the water... kinda. The Linksys equivalent of this device had many complaints because it required you to reformat your external disks into ext3 format. The D-Link device does not require that, and allows you to use stand alone hard disks, thumb drives, or any usb removable media right away. The problem with this device is that it just came out, so there are few people at D-Link who can support the issues that arise. One of those being the fact that my external hard drives mount as read only, which means I can't do much with them. In the configuration, they are set up to be Read/Write access, so the issue is with the product, not me. I tried using it with my digital camera, and I could write to it just fine. None of my three external hard disks, two of them the same one of them different, will give me write access, but I am able to read from them just fine. I've called D-Link and tried to get a solution for this, but one doesn't exist yet. It's quite likely that this will be fixed in the next firmware release, since right now the original is the only version available, so I would put off buying this for a little while to see if this matter gets solved.

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Summary: BEWARE! No support for NTFS drives!
Review: I bought this device specifically to allow me to use two external hard drives to give me instant NAS--and according to the product information available, this looked like just what I needed. (I looked at the Linksys NSLU2 also, but the ext3 reformatting of any attached drive--and associated destruction of all existing data--ruled it out quickly).

As others have noted, the DNS-120 allows you *read* access to NTFS drives--but you can't write to them, making them fairly useless from a practical standpoint. They just posted this fundamental limitation on their product support page today or yesterday. If one is inclined to believe their support people, lack of NTFS support was a surprising corner case to them. Personally, I find that hard to believe given the prevalence of NTFS drives in the field.

The statement on the tech support page for the DNS-120 reads:



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Summary: No NTFS - at all.
Review: The D-Link website just posted an updated FAQ. This device will not work with NTFS drives at all. I wish I had known that before purchase.
I had spent 2 hours on the phone with Tech Support and they kept telling me I was doing something wrong. The tech's DNS-120 was working fine. When I asked him what type of drive he was using, he said they tested it with a USB Thumb drive.
I need a drive bigger than a 512mb Thumb drive to back up my stuff.

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Summary: Better be prepared to use FAT32...
Review: The major problem with the DNS-120 is that is will not support read/write using NTFS partitions!...as long as you have a product that will format your external disk to FAT32, you will be able to work...withing the limitations of FAT32 (i.e., no file over the size of 2 gig)...

I expect that D-Link will have a firmware upgrade for this...