Ted, >The general view in the industry is that in the long term, the NAS format will win out.
Do you have any posts saved that say that?
NAS has lots of severe limitations, not the least of which is security. Your data is hanging out there on the public network for anyone to grab. It also has one packet at a time transmission limitations, whereas SAN has no such restrictions. NAS may be OK for low security, low bandwidth applications, which tend to be low storage capacity also. But the power users, like banks, Visa, airlines, insurance cos, etc., won't put anything business critical on NAS. So, I disagree with you, again, at least for the next 5 years, which is like near forever in high tech. :-)
Tony |
