"regaining its courage in 2004 to once again go it alone. But the DS3000 wasn't meant to be either."

- It's not the DS3000, that's the family name of the current range - it was the DS300 which was withdrawn a year ago due to RHoS.

"it was the DS300 which was withdrawn a year ago due to RHoS."

On top of being a crappy product all around.

I prefer the phrase "functionally challenged" :-)

Fortuantely the DS3300 is much better being based on the DS4000 architecture.

Surely The Register can do better than this.