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Unraid's primary feature is the ability to easily create and manage storage arrays in hardware-agnostic ways, allowing users to use nearly any combination of hard drives to create a disk array, regardless of model, capacity, or connection type. Unraid's NAS functionality consists of a parity-protected array, user shares, and an optional cache ...
Drive mapping is how MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows associate a local drive letter (A-Z) with a shared storage area to another computer (often referred as a File Server) over a network. After a drive has been mapped, a software application on a client's computer can read and write files from the shared storage area by accessing that drive, just ...
One way to loosely conceptualize the difference between a NAS and a SAN is that NAS appears to the client OS (operating system) as a file server (the client can map network drives to shares on that server) whereas a disk available through a SAN still appears to the client OS as a disk, visible in disk and volume management utilities (along with ...
A storage area network (SAN) or storage network is a computer network which provides access to consolidated, block-level data storage. SANs are primarily used to access data storage devices, such as disk arrays and tape libraries from servers so that the devices appear to the operating system as direct-attached storage .
Potential benefits of network-attached storage, compared to non-dedicated file servers, include faster data access, easier administration, and simple configuration. [ 3 ] NAS systems are networked appliances containing one or more hard drives, often arranged into logical, redundant storage containers or RAID arrays.
Samba is a free software re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol, and was originally developed by Andrew Tridgell.Samba provides file and print services for various Microsoft Windows clients [5] and can integrate with a Microsoft Windows Server domain, either as a Domain Controller (DC) or as a domain member.
WebDrive is a drive mapping utility that supports accessing remote file servers using open FTP, FTPS, SFTP, and WebDAV protocols, [2] and proprietary or vendor-specific protocols. It can be run as a Windows service and supports automatic mounting on system startup.
RANCID (Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ) is a network management application released under a BSD-style license. [1] RANCID uses Expect to connect to the routers, send some commands and put the results in files.