Storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS) owe their popularity to some compelling advantages in scalability, utilization and data management. But achieving high performance for ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

Capacity presents two challenges to the Storage Area Network (SAN) vs. Direct Attached Storage (DAS) debate. A traditional knock against DAS and a reason that many data centers get a SAN is because of ...

Continuing our examination of the resurgence of direct attached storage (DAS), in this entry we look at the ever-increasing internal capacity of DAS in servers. One of the key reasons users begin ...

Storage technologies are a bit of an alphabet soup, with NAS, SAN, and DAS systems being offered. That’s Network Attached Storage, Storage Area Network, and Direct Attached Storage. The DAS is the ...