Digital storage basics, part 2: External drive vs. NAS server
Now that you have some ideas about internal storage vs. memory after reading part 1, here in part 2 I'll talk about the two main types of external storage devices: direct-attached storage (DAS) and network-attached storage (NAS).
DAS and NAS share a few things in common. They both use one or more internal drives (hard drives or SSDs) on the inside, and they utilize the same methods to combine drives' storage space (when multiple drives are used). … Read more