The purpose of NAS drives on computers is to act as a file server. It allows an individual or business to share files between a number of computers on that shared network.
NAS stands for Network Attached Storage. Businesses and homes can use this service in order to have access to more information without slowing down their own personal computers. There are many different sites available that can provide NAS storage.
There are many retailers that sell NAS Hard Drives. One can buy them online from eBay, Servers Direct and Amazon or in store from Best Buy, Maplin and PC World.
The purpose of SCSI hard drives are to exchange information between separate computers. Whereas, EIDE hard drives addresses a computers interface between its individual hard drive and its storage disks.
NAS Raid storage works by connecting computers to the NAS storage hard drive and allowing them to share information via the ethernet network connection.
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Base on purposed, computers are either general purpose or special purpose. General purpose computers are meant for all manner of tasks while Special purpose computers are tailored for unique task.
Many of these type devices allow for multiple disk drives so the available space is almost unlimited. There are systems with 10TB drives but Seagate claims NAS devices can only handle up to 4 TB.
Mounts vary in complexity. A simple mount has the purpose of holding the telescope steady. Fancier mounts can have built in motor drives and even computers to find and track stars as they move across the sky.
NAS is a computer technology term which stands for "network attached storage". This refers to a hard drive attached to a network server for the specific purpose of file storage.
Disk drives.
A NAS device, or network-assisted device, is used as a storage or backup device in computing. It would normally be connected to a network of clients and consist of one or more hard drives.