Although you can look at the DNS 323 as a standard windows drive, in practice you probably need a bit more information about what it's doing. You can get that from the built-in web pages of course, but it's a bit of a pain to open the various pages if you just want to check that the thing's actually still alive or not. I run my box in a different building, so this is something I need to check on reasonably regularly.

Hence we have...

A Windows 7/ Vista (they are actually pretty much the same despite what the jurnos think) Gadget

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The D-Link DNS 323 is a domestic Network Attached Storage device which looks like this, only smaller.

It's a box with a small embedded Linux machine in it, a couple of slots for SATA II hard drives, and a gigabit network adapter. Oh, and it's got flashing blue LEDs on the front and a "brick" power supply.

Here's some random information about this device.

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