The DockStar on the other hand is packed in a cardboard box without any view or pictures of the dock. The original dock had a clear plastic package that showed off the dock itself. Surprisingly the DockStar's packaging wasn't similar to the FreeAgent Go Dock that we looked at before. What kind of difference can one lowly ethernet port make? Read more to find out. With the new Dockstar, they included an Ethernet port to help share your files over your network and over the Internet. You wouldn't think Seagate would be able to improve on a simple dock too much but surprisingly they did. I was planning on buying two more this morning, (contemplating on plugging webcams, and making it a security camera recorder like what I did with the NSLU2).We have looked at Seagate's FreeAgent Go series a few times in the past and were very impressed with the Free Agent Go Dock that goes along with them. that's why I think it's better to have a faster processor do all the task (like the dockstar) and just leave the router to it's task of juggling hundreds of connections. I'm thinking it's because of multiple connections, coupled with disk access, plus background apps (like web server, etc) makes everything run slower. I find that routers working as NAS tend to make my internet connections dodgy. I am continuously reminding myself that I don't need it. The price point is so tempting for this device. I had to spend hours&hours to get SAMBA working on DD-WRT. AFAIR, FAT32 and EXTs give the best performance.Īlas, few days back, I purchased a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND router to serve as a NAS. If you are not heavy on SAMBA (the file server), you may also run other servers, such as email and/or Asterisks.īTW, PlugApps kernel supports FAT32, NTFS, EXT2/3/4. With 1.2GHz processor, 128MB ram, it is probably better than any $200 - price of HDD&Enclosure NAS. Madeals wrote: ↑For those, how want to hack it, PlugApps is a good choice. and it has more processing power and I can have multiple sessions copying files and less possibility of hanging.Īlso the fact that it way cheaper than the DNS-323 (which has less cpu power). Only trade off is that you'd need a separate power (if using 3.5in USB drives). With the dockstar, it works out of the box, gives me network share, I can access files from internet and share stuffs in Facebook, plus it even has an iphone app and I can watch/view files from anywhere.Īlso it is hackable, can be modified for Debian, etc. Plus the fact that it's forcing me to use ext2/3 and it's support for 2TB is dodgy. I thought it just didn't properly format the first one, it was too late for me to realize that it formatted my other drive. I only reformatted the 2nd drive, and it asked me to format twice. I've already lost 800GB worth of files with it's quirky formatting. The DNS-323 is giving problems, whenever I'm copying files to the 2nd disk, it's giving me "not enough space" error. Also, isn't Seagate in fact moving to a newer type of network device? There's sleep, unmount and connectivity issues. I couldn't see the PogoPlug being a reliable nas and I doubt the DockStar will be any different. I have the 323, a dockstar which I bought as a toy and a couple of other NAS units. Pmcd wrote: ↑I would think that the dns323 would be far more useful.
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