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What is Network Attached Storage?

April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Concepts, Networking, Q & A, Storage, Technology

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 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 [...]

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How does disk defrag work?

February 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Hard Drives, Storage

The word “disk defrag” is typically used to refer to the Microsoft Windows utility called Disk Defragmenter. It is designed to solve a problem that occurs because of the way hard disks store data. If you have read the article How Hard Disks Work, then you know three key facts about hard disks: 1. Hard [...]

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