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Sometimes, options aren't such a great thing.: Page 2 of 6

When I was a kid there was a joke about how a guy walked into a convenience store and asked for a pack of cigarettes. By the time he got through all the choices (filtered or non, menthol or non,...
June 16, 2005

existing systems. What do you recommend?

SA: Do you want DAS, NAS, CAS, SAN, or iSCSI?

CIO: What's the difference?

SA: NAS is easy - throw it on the network and it appears as shares, CAS is NAS for archiving - kind of

- DAS is the simplest to configure, but it is nearly impossible to centrally manage, SAN is the easiest to

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