SAN(Storage Area Network) vs NAS (Network Attached Storage) vs DAS (Direct Attached Storage)
A NAS is cheaper storage than a SAN – Both can use RAID, if you had four 16 TB NAS boxes they would appear as 4 seperate pools of storage, conversely four 16 TB SAN’s would appear as one 64TB central pool of storage. Furthermore a SAN can be set-up to asynchronously replicate with another… Read More »