With the increase of file sizes over the years, and the preponderance of data being generated by the average end user a simple external RAID market was born. Into that market stepped an unlikely challenger; LaCie storage devices. Using simple RAID technology mounted on a single chip the end user now has access to terabytes […]
What RAID Type is my NAS?
For all the technology in the world, it still baffles me how a technician will assume that the storage size found on the outside of the packaging of most NAS RAIDs is consistent with the actual configuration of the NAS. Assumptions are made by a technician or network engineer that will affect the safety and […]
SAN and NAS the Difference from a User Perspective
So I was asked the other day by our SEO content writer what is the difference between SAN and NAS. Now, usually I pride myself in the ability to spout off random techno babble, in order to explain what would normally be a difficult concept easily to an end user. Yet in this instance I was stumped. […]