D-Link Unveils 2-Bay Network Storage Solution Offering Local and Cloud Capabilities for Home Users and Small Business Owners

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Expanding its portfolio of cloud-enabled products, D-Link today announced its latest ShareCenter^® 2-Bay Cloud Storage 2000 (DNS-320L), offering a centralized storage solution with remote sharing, streaming, and management capabilities. Delivering a complete home and small business cloud storage solution, the D-Link^® Cloud Storage 2000 enables users to remotely and locally download and upload files, delete files and folders from their storage device, and access files stored on their ShareCenter^® from  any computer via the mydlink.com portal.  Plus, with a free app for iPad^®, iPhone^® and Android™ devices, users can now easily view photos, and stream music and videos from their ShareCenter directly to mobile devices from anywhere in the world.

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"As the need for centralized storage has increased in today's digital home, D-Link continues to offer high-performance and versatile storage solutions," said Ken Loyd, director, consumer products, D-Link Systems, Inc. "Beyond providing a robust and secured storage solution, the Cloud Storage 2000 allows users to create their own personal cloud to locally and remotely access and manage files, store video recordings from a mydlink-enabled Cloud Camera and even stream music and video to a mobile device."

The Cloud Storage 2000 replaces D-Link's leading DNS-320 storage device and includes a faster CPU, Gigabit Ethernet port for high-speed data transfers and an intuitive hardware design supporting up to two 3.5-inch SATA hard drives[i].  The Cloud Storage 2000 supports multiple user streams simultaneously and does not require any tools for installation – providing a high performance user-friendly storage solution for today's digital home. For added protection, the Cloud Storage 2000 is equipped with RAID 1 technology to protect user's valuable files.  Users can also backup their files using the secure Amazon S3 service to protect files in the event of a catastrophe.

In addition, the Cloud Storage 2000 features a brand new Photo Center which aggregates and organizes user's photos from their storage device, allowing administrators to create photo albums, view them with a slide show, and share photos with friends via emails, Cooliris and posts to your Picasa web album.

Additional Features:

• mydlink.com Portal for Remote File Management over the Internet
• mydlink^® Access – NAS Mobile App for Remote File Access and music, photos and video streaming
• Multiple hard drive configurations – Standard, JBOD RAID 0 and RAID 1
• High-Speed Gigabit Ethernet Connectivity
• Built-in Web File Server and Secure FTP Server for File Access Over the Internet[ii]
• DLNA^™ Server to Stream Music, Photos, and Video to Compatible Media Players[iii], including Boxee Box by D-Link, PlayStation^® 3 and Xbox^® 360
• USB Port Supports USB Drives, USB Printers and UPS Monitoring
• Supports PC Backup, Local Backup, Apple Time Machine Backup, USB Backup, Remote Backup, and Cloud Backup (via Amazon S3)
• Auto Power Recovers and Power-off Scheduling
• Automatic E-mail Notification of Device Status

Availability and Pricing
The Cloud Storage 2000 will be available for a retail price of $149.99 throughout the D-Link network of retail and e-tail outlets in North America.

About D-Link
D-Link is the global leader in connectivity for home, small business, mid- to large-sized enterprise environments, and service providers. An award-winning designer, developer, and manufacturer, D-Link implements and supports unified network solutions that integrate capabilities in switching, wireless, broadband, storage, IP Surveillance, and cloud-based network management. For more information visit www.dlink.com, or connect with D-Link on Facebook (www.facebook.com/dlink) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/dlink).

D-Link, ShareCenter, mydlink and the D-Link logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of D-Link Corporation or its subsidiaries. All other third-party marks mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright © 2012. D-Link. All Rights Reserved.

[i] Hard drive(s) not included. An internal 3.5" SATA drive is required to store or share your files. The internal SATA drives must be formatted before use. RAID 0 striping and RAID 1 mirroring require a minimum of two (2) SATA drives. To avoid data incompatibility in RAID 0 or RAID 1, use SATA drives with the same capacity and from the same manufacturer. Formatted drive capacity for RAID 1 operation is dependent on the drive capacity of the lowest-sized drive. May not work with older generation SATA drives. For a list of SATA drives that have been tested to work with the DNS-320L, visit http://support.dlink.com.

[ii] Use of an FTP Server over the Internet does not provide secure or encrypted transmissions, unless the end user enables SSL authentication in their FTP client.

[iii] D-Link cannot guarantee full compatibility or proper playback with all codecs. Playback compatibility depends on the codec support of the UPnP™ AV media player.

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