Idle3-tools provides a linux/unix utility that can disable, get and set the value of the infamous idle3 timer found on recent Western Digital Hard Disk Drives.
It can be used as an alternative to the official wdidle3.exe proprietary utility, without the need to reboot in a DOS environement.
A power off/on cycle of the drive will still be mandatory for new settings to be taken into account.

TMSU is a tool for tagging your files. It provides a simple command-line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program.

TMSU does not alter your files in any way: they remain unchanged on disk, or on the network, wherever you put them. TMSU maintains its own database and you simply gain an additional view, which you can mount, based upon the tags you set up. The only commitment required is your time and there's absolutely no lock-in.

Everyone seems to be asking what the difference is between D-Link's popular DNS-323 dual-drive BYOD NAS [reviewed] and the very similar DNS-321 that D-Link hasn't even bothered to officially announce. So let's take a quick look to clear things up.