I recently bought a D-Link DNS-321 diskless NAS. I have been looking at buying a NAS now for sometime. The problem that I have ran into is that all of them seem to fall short in one way or another. The only way to get network storage that is decent is to go with a more expensive unit (like a ReadyNAS), or to go the server method (like a Mac Mini Server or some other server).
The D-Link DNS-321 is not what I would call an amazing NAS, but I found it at Tigerdirect.com for roughly $70 after mail-in-rebate. I found it on sale still/again at dealnews.com for the same price. For $70 this device offers a decent location to store music, video, and archived data, so I decided to give it a try.
So far I have been pretty happy with it. It took me about 10 minutes to get it setup and it gives you your basic needs. Now the problem that I am running into is that I need more storage. I have been using two 250GB drives in a RAID 1 array, and I am ought of room already (had the NAS a week). Now I am looking at purchasing two WD 500GB drives for $80 after $30 mail-in-rebate ($15 mail-in-rebate per drive) from newegg.com.
For a in depth review of the DNS-321 visit the review at SmallNetBuilder.com.
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