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First positven points: the housing is very appealing designed and well made, although the guide rails of the hard disks would tolerate a Teflon coating and the arrangement of the buttons above the LEDs is impractical, the cooling fan runs only when needed and then also fairly quiet and there the stable kernel 2.26.xx installed.

To start up the Share Centre, a DHCP server is quite useful because the relapse address has remained unknown. The mentioned on the website for other D-Link devices IP addresses have equally unavailing shown the 65536 proposed in the manual as candidates. The response of the support provided after 27 hours just only this incorrect subnet; To date, however, is already the DHCP service have been set up, which is otherwise abundant superfluous for a home LAN.

The hard drives are of course easily recognized, only an adequate device is not possible via the user interface can be the hard disks only to a large RAID0 or RAID1 mirrored a lump format; partitioning the PC has also been unsuccessful, since these are then not accepted. It can thus be set up just a huge data-ton, the reconstruction after a disk failure is not conducive to regular consistency check enormously protracted and really has nothing to do with a NAS system just because of access's LAN is done.

Whether the connection is really GBit-capable, remains an open question, as it has not been tested ist.- the dimensioning of the graphics window for network utilization in the built-in Web server speaks against it anyway.

After all, has proven with this equipment that you do not necessarily need Windows to make a tolerable computer toaster D-Link - it rich a few verpeilte developers.

But now likely Windows and Macintosh users, which naturally do not expect too much of their gaming PCs, are happy with the device, because after all, some clickable special features are installed and the manual has also brought it bland with many little pictures to more than 200 pages , Many's just too content with little.

In addition to worms and Trojans with most popular ports 139 and 445 for the Samba connections also allow FTP access has been installed; This, however, is locked for a reason for the admin. But it's unfortunate that neither a VNC server nor a ssh access is provided, as are so the system can be configured with simple means and could have resulted in highly meaningful home component.

- This leaves only the return and reincarnation as a new warehouse Deal.