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1D-Link ShareCenter Shadow DNS-325 User Manual
Section 1 - Product Overview
The D-Link ShareCenter™ Shadow (DNS-325), 2-Bay Network Storage, when used with internal SATA drives
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, enables
you to share documents, les, and digital media such as music, photos, and video with everyone on the home or ofce
network. Remotely accessing les through the Internet is also possible with the built-in FTP server
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, Web File server
and WebDAV protocol. Whether you are allowing access locally or over the Internet, keep data safe by only giving
rights to specic users or groups. When conguring the DNS-325, you can create users and groups and assign them
to folders with either read or read/write permissions. This is ideal for an ofce environment with employee-specic
sensitive data or for the home where you can ensure your children will only have access to age appropriate material.
The DNS-325 will be available to any computer (PC, MAC, or Linux-based) on your network, without the need to install
any software on the computer.
Back up your music, photo, and video collections to the DNS-325 for safekeeping. Then, enjoy the benets of the built-
in DLNA certied UPnP AV media server
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as you stream digital content to compatible media players (such as those
found in D-Link’s MediaLounge product line). This feature is highly convenient as it allows you to turn off a computer
that would normally be needed for the same function.
The availability of four different hard drive modes (Standard, JBOD, RAID 0, RAID1) allows you to choose the
conguration best suited to your needs. Standard mode creates two separately accessible hard drives. JBOD combines
both drives in linear fashion for maximum space efciency. RAID 0 combines both drives in a ‘striped’ conguration,
which provides the highest performance when using a Gigabit Ethernet connection. RAID 1 causes the drives to mirror
each other, providing maximum protection. If one drive fails while congured as RAID 1, the unaffected drive continues
to function as a single drive until the failed drive is replaced. The new drive will then be re-mirrored, allowing the DNS-
325 to return to its full protection.
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.
Introduction
3 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.
2 Note that use of an FTP Server to access les over the Internet does not provide for secure or encrypted transmissions.
1 Hard Drive(s) not included.