42 پاسخ به “NAS vs SAN – Network Attached Storage vs Storage Area Network”

  1. If I look at the word NAS in the mirror, it will say SAN. Same goes for the word SAN.
    I shall put this on my resume and apply to a big tech firm, with confidence I will be immediately hired as genius-level lead engineer.

  2. A computer nerds perspective…

    I have a SAN setup at home and it's really not that expensive – far cheaper than a NAS although the initial learning curve is steeper. SANs are not plug-and-play in the way that a consumer NAS unit is, they require some proper administration and configuration. Fortunately, this isn't too difficult once you understand how the elements of a SAN interact.

    Since SAN equipment is designed for the enterprise it is power efficient and almost bombproof.

    I bought cheap second hand enterprise equipment that was SAS and SATA capable from a certain 'bay' popular with shoppers. I then populated them with the cheaper SATA (never do this in an enterprise). I bought a job-lot of 6 Disk Shelves, each with 24 drive capability but currently only use two shelves at half capacity. These provide redundant storage services to my 16-blade m1000e server (delivering a private vSphere VM cloud) and to my workstations.

    At 40Gb/s the SAN is far faster than my former QNAP NAS which only had a single 1Gbit LAN port. The built in redundant RAID controllers, redundant network cards and redundant PSUs mean that the shelf can develop a fault and just keeps on running. The data redundancy in the storage medium is automatic and transparent, letting me get on with my life. In use it feels very responsive… indistinguishable from a local drive in fact.

    I'd recommend a secondhand SAN shelf over a NAS to anyone who likes tech and isn't scared to learn new things. NAS units tend to lack any real redundancy, usually don't offer much storage and only a single type of filesystem. They often have numerous software plugins for things like torrenting and websharing, but security (in consumer NAS units) is sometimes very much an afterthought so I'd never advise exposing one to the wider internet.

    Basically, geeks should use SANs… no excuses ; )

    Oh, and SANs have WAY more blinkenlights! And we should all strive for more blinkenlighten in our lives!

  3. NAS vs SAN to me = SAN has dedicated controllers that handle multiple disk shelves.
    Otherwise it is a NAS, which also do iSCSI and Fiber Channel so that is not exclusive to SAN's

  4. The disadvantage you mentioned doesn't apply to a selfbuild one. You can get dual server psu's and all the good stuff if you really want to. Even in rack form.

  5. woow, you talk about old nas server technology, today you have nas with dual controller, with iscsi 10, 25, 40 gb / s, there are NAS with ISCSI per block, there are nas with protocol fc, this video would be great if we were in the 2000

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