Resolving Poor Mac OS X Samba Performance with D-Link’s DNS-323 NAS

Published by Eric Litman on Monday, October 8th, 2007 3:02pm

A few months ago I bought a couple of D-Link's DNS-323 low-end network attached storage devices as part of my ongoing mission to reduce and simplify the hardware in my home. For about $375 ($175 for the DNS-323 and $100 each for two 500GB hard disks) and almost no setup effort†, you can have 1/2 TB of redundant storage in a small, quiet, Gigabit Ethernet-capable server with some pretty nifty features out of the box. And if you're a tinkerer with some Linux experience, you can draw from the thriving hacking community supporting it. For the money, I love these little things. But while my Windows machines communicate with them ...