D-Link DIR-313 N/w Storage Enclosure

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

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It is a 1-bay network storage enclosure that can even be accessed via Internet. Once fitted with 3.5” SATA drive one can use this device as external storage using USB 2.0 connection or NAS using Gigabit Ethernet connection. However, one cannot use this device both as network storage and external storage drive as only one connector is available at a time (USB 2.0 or Gigabit Ethernet connection). In our setup we used Seagate's Barracuda 7200.7 ST3120827AS 120 GB hard drive. We used this drive as network storage by connecting it to our local network. We installed this device on a Windows machine and performed hardware installation, formatted hard drive and mapped the hard drive to the network. Features that make it worthy are a built-in FTP server, iTune server and UPnP AV server. To start these servers visit 192.168.3.93 and click on 'Advanced' on the top, then click on 'FTP Server' on left. Now define category and folders that can be accessed over FTP and click on 'Start FTP Server' button at bottom. Similarly enable UPnP AV and iTune server from the same page; this will enable sharing of iTunes over network plus enabling UpnP devices to directly stream audio and video files from the storage device.

Bottomline: The device lets you convert simple HDDs to NAS with features like FTP access over Internet.

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