For the uninitiated, NAS provides a central difficult drive on which you can shop, share and back up all files from many computer systems in the household. Fit for individual or smaller business use, network attached storage is flexible, scalable and prepared for what ever in-home storage and devices you can throw at it. Reasonably priced, they even outmatch some on the internet vendor contracts and can outlast an outage, as well.

But then once more, in the early days, NAS devices had been small far more than portable hard drives, and normally single drive units at that, with the potential to grab an IP address from a DHCP server and hence retailer files from numerous customers.

Currently, some SANs can transport data more than a common Ethernet connection, but most typically storage area networks use the Fibre Channel protocol, which was developed specifically for high-speed data transport on storage-location … Read More