NAS drives (Network address storage) South Africa

NAS drives (Network address storage) South Africa

What is a NAS drive?

What is NAS ? Network Address Storage.

NAS is a hard drive, or several hard drives connected in RAID, connected to a network.

NAS is an intelligent piece of hardware that connects hard drives to your network, it is a storage or back-up device, and allows many users to share files, documents, movies, photos and music with each other.

As multimedia players become more common in the house, such as intelligent multimedia enabled television sets and multi-media players (such as Android and KODI devices), a NAS is ideal for sharing and streaming your multimedia throughout your home.

Files can be shared, copied and updated in a business, school, college or university.

NAS are ideal in small businesses and large companies for their backup needs.

Multi-drive NAS devices lets you to connect several drives in RAID configurations, offering the benefits of performance, larger storage capacity and/or redundancy.

• Performance - many drives can be accessed at the same time, increasing speed.
• Larger storage capacity - many drives can be grouped together to increase storage capacity.
• Redundancy - several drives can be connected in a RAID configuration that allows you to recover data if one of the drives should fail.