The little “toaster” arrived yesterday.  As you can guess, when I got home I had to open it up and install it.  My first impressions are, wow – this is cool.  It took me less than an hour to get it installed and usable.

The first thing I did was goto Seagate’s site to see if the two new 1.5TB drives I purchased were affected by the manufacturing/firmware problems.  Luckly, no issues   Next I installed the drives and plugged everything in.  The box came to life and grabbed a DHCP address from the router.  I opened up a web browser and was able to login.  The unit arrived with firmware version 1.04.  D-Link released 1.06 in December and it added support for the new 1.5TB drives.  I downloaded the firmware and appied it.  Once the box rebooted, I was able to use the new drives.  It took about 40 minutes for format the 1.5TB drives using RAID-1.