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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > NAS/Storage Megathread: What is this "File Deletion" You Speak of
 
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swalk
Nov 20, 2004
bucka blaow

teamdest posted:

well then I'll take you up on that: could you give a basic overview of what a SAN is, how it is hooked up/accessed, etc? I've got my NAS and was thinking of building a SAN and realized I literally know nothing about them, and even iSCSI confuses me when I try to figure out what's going on. I believe I just fundamentally don't understand what a SAN is for.

I'm no SAN expert, but generally compared to NAS they offer: speed, more storage space, and scalability. Plus, with SANs, storage can appear locally attached so you can run servers with no hard drives (for example, run an ESX server directly off a SAN).

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > NAS/Storage Megathread: What is this "File Deletion" You Speak of