What i Network Attached Storage?
Network Attached Storage offers small business, high bandwidth on the desktop solutions and home users with reliable fault tolerant storage. NAS devices normally offer RAID level storage in an operating system independent system that is delivered in a package that can be hooked straight up to your network, where it is instantly recognised on your network and ready for use in minutes Why Are NAS Devices Different to Standard External Storage? The problem with NAS devices, at least when it comes to the recovery of the data, is that the NAS is a closed system. It appears on the network as a share, normally with a web based admin utility that gives numerous options for configuration, drive information etc, but few understand the underlying technology that is involved in providing the networked storage solution. Most NAS boxes offer a RAID of some description, in high bandwidth applications this can be a striped RAID 0 array, in more critical environments the device may be set up as a mirro