SAN-NAS Buying Guide
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SAN-NAS Buying Guide provides guidance on the selection between SAN block and NAS file storage for your application environment. We also provide some performance information and detailed questions to ask your storage vendors before you buy.
Description

SAN & NAS Storage Features
We describe important features of file and block storage
When to use block vs. file storage
We provide guidance on deciding between SAN vs. NAS storage
Performance of SAN & NAS systems
We supply select data on file and block IO performance
Questions for SAN & NAS vendors
We identify key questions to ask on SAN & NAS storage
NAS & SAN Storage Features
After describing various storage alternatives, we detail some of the more important features of NAS and SAN storage systems.


When to use NAS vs. SAN storage
Deciding where to use NAS or SAN storage is not difficult but does require an understanding of their basic characteristics and where they work best.
Performance of NAS & SAN storage
We supply select information on different file and block protocol performance so to help you decide what’s best for your datacenter.

Some recent file IO performance posts

Questions for SAN & NAS vendors
We supply over 20 questions to ask your SAN and NAS vendors before you purchase, so that you make an informed decision on what to buy.
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