D-Link ShareCenter DNS-345 - Product Overview

1D-Link ShareCenter DNS-345 User Manual
Section 1 - Product Overview
The D-Link ShareCenter DNS-345 is a 4-Bay Network Attached Storage device. When used with internal SATA drives
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, it enables you to share documents,
les, and digital media such as music, photos, and video with everyone in your home or in the oce network. Remotely accessing les through the
Internet is also possible using the built-in FTP server, Web File server and the WebDAV protocol. Whether you are allowing access locally or over the
Internet, you can keep data safe by only giving rights to specic users or groups. When conguring the DNS-345, you can create and assign users
and groups to folders with either read or read/write permissions. This is ideal for an oce environment with employee-specic sensitive data or for
the home where you can limit your children to age appropriate material. The DNS-345 will be available to any computer (PC, Mac, or Linux-based)
on your network, without the need to install additional software.
You may back up your music, photos, and video collections to the DNS-345 for safekeeping. Then, enjoy the benets of the built-in UPnP AV media
server as you stream digital content to compatible media players
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(such as those found in D-Link’s MediaLounge product line). This feature is very
convenient as it allows you to turn o a computer that would normally be needed for the same function.
To further enhance your ShareCenter’s capabilities you can expand the applications available with the ShareCenter by using the Add-On feature
which allows you to add supported software applications. These applications can add over the web audio streaming, le and media sharing, and
even blogging capability to your ShareCenter.
The DNS-345 has seven RAID modes:
• Standard - creates a single volume from one drive.
• JBOD - combines all drives in a linear fashion for maximum space eciency
• RAID 0 - uses all drives as a single massive array of storage with the combined capacity of all the drives
• RAID 1 - also known as disk mirroring, the system will save data to all the drives in the same array simultaneously
• RAID 5 - requires at least 3 drives. Data is split into blocks and stored over all of the drives. Parity data is distributed amongst all
of the drives and is used to regenerate lost data during a drive failure.
• RAID 5+SPARE - data is a striped set with distributed parity. One drive in the array is left empty so if a drive fails, the spare is used
to rebuild the array and restore the redundancy as soon as possible.
• RAID 10 - is a combination of RAID 0 (data striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring). It oers the highest performance and data protection.
• iSCSI - is a combination of RAID 0 (data striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring). It oers the highest performance and data protection.
2 D-Link cannot guarantee full compatibility or proper playback with all codecs. Playback capability depends on the codec support of the UPnP™ AV media player.
1 Hard Drive(s) not included.
Product Overview