[NTLUG:Discuss] Wireless Home Network

[Kevin Hulse]

--- Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> wrote:
> Kevin Hulse wrote:
> 
> > It sounds like you should be using some serious
> SAN
> > hardware for this sort of thing rather than a NAS.
> > What gives?
> 
> I'm not familiar with those terms (SAN, NAS)??

Storage Area Network.

     A network of storage devices. Most often, Fibre
     Channel based networking, using a Fibre Channel 
     switch between host and storage. 

Network Attached Storage.

     network attached storage describes any disk type 
     of storage space that is part of a LAN or WAN 
     where data is stored on a stand alone device 
     specifically designed for this purpose

SAN and NAS hardware are conceptually very similar.
However, SAN hardware tends to be somewhat more 
"burly". 96G cache on a larger SAN unit is not
at all uncommon.

Fiberchannel also might provide a performance boost
over ethernet.
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