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<blockquote data-quote="IvanLasston" data-source="post: 1080025" data-attributes="member: 145676"><p>NAS means Network Attached Storage - and it is generally used for sharing files on a network. There are many solutions out there but because of speed and access - most NAS tries to be on etherenet, gigabit ethernet, or multiple gigabit ethernet. Mounting drives is known more of a shared storage solution - i.e. file server. </p><p></p><p>It just depends on what you are trying to accomplish. The nice thing about NAS is that you don't have to run a full blown OS - just a file server OS. And it can stay on all the time - dedicated to serving files. As I said I personally use the time capsule as a NAS/wireless AP. I can connect drives to the USB hub of the time capsule to extend it's capabilities and the price was reasonable for all that you got. </p><p></p><p>You just need to make sure that whatever NAS solution (or server solution) can serve to the types of OSes that will be accessing and saving files to it (smb, afs, etc). Other than that you would just mount the NAS on the different computers and it would end up looking like another drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IvanLasston, post: 1080025, member: 145676"] NAS means Network Attached Storage - and it is generally used for sharing files on a network. There are many solutions out there but because of speed and access - most NAS tries to be on etherenet, gigabit ethernet, or multiple gigabit ethernet. Mounting drives is known more of a shared storage solution - i.e. file server. It just depends on what you are trying to accomplish. The nice thing about NAS is that you don't have to run a full blown OS - just a file server OS. And it can stay on all the time - dedicated to serving files. As I said I personally use the time capsule as a NAS/wireless AP. I can connect drives to the USB hub of the time capsule to extend it's capabilities and the price was reasonable for all that you got. You just need to make sure that whatever NAS solution (or server solution) can serve to the types of OSes that will be accessing and saving files to it (smb, afs, etc). Other than that you would just mount the NAS on the different computers and it would end up looking like another drive. [/QUOTE]
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