Network Attached Storage, or NAS, is a simple way to share disk space on a network. A NAS is an enclosure big enough to hold one or more disks, a fan, and a controller board. It is plugged into a network router, which enables all computers on your network to access the storage. On Windows, [...]
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What is Network Attached Storage?
April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Concepts, Networking, Q & A, Storage, Technology
Tags: NAS·NAS Server·Network Attached Storage·Network Storage·Network Storage Server
What is RAID?
March 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Concepts, Introductions, Storage, Technology
Introduction Back in the late 1980′s and early 1990′s, computer information servers were encountering a dramatic increase in the amount of data they needed to serve and store. Storage technologies were getting very expensive to place a large number of high capacity hard drives in the servers. A solution was needed and thus RAID was [...]
Tags: aid·hardware RAID·RAID 0·RAID 1·Raid 10·Raid 5·Raid Levels·Raid Systems·Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks·software RAID