Mark Lanctot Wrote: > I'm starting to think the term "NAS" is kind of a misnomer.
There is definitely a place for "pure" NAS devices. By this I mean a simple storage device that connects directly to your network to provide shared drive space. Such a device needs little more circuitry than an external harddrive, and serves a very specific role. As such, a "pure" NAS can be a relatively inexpensive, quiet, and cost-effective way of putting shared storage on a LAN. However, I'm with you on the misnomer thing. It is easy to become entranced with these other NAS devices that add CPUs, memory, and other PC like features. But once you go there, it's not just a NAS anymore but basically a weak networked computing device with a big harddrive. Sure there's a place for these as they are adequate to suit the needs of many folk, but they can also be easily oversold as something more novel and more capable than they actually are. I guess caveat emptor is the word here. -- Gildahl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gildahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25892 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
