On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, marty wrote:
> i was kind of wondering myself if SAN = NAS
>
> ie. storage area network = network attached storage
Nope. The two are conceptually different.
Network Attached Storage uses your "regular" network for communicating -
in other words, the communication gets mixed with your normal LAN traffic.
A Storage Area Network has its own dedicated network for communicating
between the storage devices.
And, of course, that's different depending on which vendor you ask. :-)
DaZZa
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