On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:00:19AM -0800, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: >If my understanding is correct a simple NAS is: >1. A storage space available over the network >2. Fault tolerant >3. Expandable >4. Transparent >5. Compatible across OSes
add 1. rack space costs (NAS / SAN devices typically have far lower form factor than if you try to run a bunch of fileservers across to a datacenter) 2. out of the box and just works - most of the time. you dont have to sacrifice white chickens and mutter incantations all the time like you would with a homecooked solution 3. hot swappable modules in your NAS / SAN 4. lots and lots more redundancy and failover built in 5. A SLA with your vendor that you can enforce if things turn out bad _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
