• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    a NAS(network attached storage) as the name implies is a collection of drives connected over the network. a DAS (direct attached storage) is a collection of drives connected directly, usually over thunderbolt or high bandwidth connection. A typical USB drive is functionally a DAS.

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      DAS can also simply be attached using SATA.