Question : What is a difference between SAN and NAS ?
Question : SAN vs NAS
SAN and NAS both are storage type, there are some differences:
SAN
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NAS
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SAN Stand for Storage Area Network
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NAS Stand for Network Attached Storage
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SAN Used Block level data access
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NAS Used File Level data Access
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Fiber Channel is Primary Media so speed is fast
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Ethernet is Primary Media, so speed slow and depend of
network |
SAN used SCSI
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NAS Used NFS/CIFS
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SAN Storage appear as own storage
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NAS appear as a shared folder
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