February 10, 2009

D-Link DNS 343
By Carlo C. Gutierrez
Published in the December 2008-January 2009 print edition of PC World Philippines

P22,000
www.dlink.com

The D-Link DNS 343 is a straight-up evolution of the previous DNS 323. It shares the same features with its predecessor both in design and features, although the DNS 343 features four drive bays—compared to the DNS 323 that featured two bays—and has a front panel with an OLED display and buttons for Power and Next. The latter button cycles through the information displayed by the OLED.

Lifting the front panel reveals 4 drive bays for SATA hard disks for adding up to 4TB of storage to your network. The rear side houses release levers, two fans, a USB port, and a gigabit Ethernet port. There’s no lack of features when it comes to the DNS 343 as it includes RAID hard drive configurations, user/group settings, network access and quotas, DHCP and static LAN settings, jumbo frames, FTP, UPnP AV, iTunes, DHCP servers, LLTD. It also features e-mail alerts on disk space, full disks, disk failures, firmware upgrades, administrator account notices and system temperature, power management, dynamic DNS, LCD display sleep settings, and disk scanning.