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Freenas Nas4Free Open Source Freebsd Raid Nfs Unix Server Message Block/Common Internet File System Afp Apple Macintosh Oes Novell Netware

A NAS unit is a network-attached storage device that provides file storage services to devices on a network. It uses a stripped-down operating system and contains disk drives arranged in RAID configurations. NAS units share files using common protocols like NFS, SMB/CIFS, AFP, and NCP and can support multiple protocols simultaneously.

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Freenas Nas4Free Open Source Freebsd Raid Nfs Unix Server Message Block/Common Internet File System Afp Apple Macintosh Oes Novell Netware

A NAS unit is a network-attached storage device that provides file storage services to devices on a network. It uses a stripped-down operating system and contains disk drives arranged in RAID configurations. NAS units share files using common protocols like NFS, SMB/CIFS, AFP, and NCP and can support multiple protocols simultaneously.

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A NAS unit is a computer connected to a network that provides only file-based data storage services to other devices

on the network. Although it may technically be possible to run other software on a NAS unit, it is usually not designed
to be a general-purpose server. For example, NAS units usually do not have a keyboard or display, and are
controlled and configured over the network, often using a browser.[4]
A full-featured operating system is not needed on a NAS device, so often a stripped-down operating system is used.
For example, FreeNAS or NAS4Free, both open source NAS solutions designed for commodity PC hardware, are
implemented as a stripped-down version of FreeBSD.
NAS systems contain one or more hard disk drives, often arranged into logical, redundant storage containers
or RAID.
NAS uses file-based protocols such as NFS (popular on UNIX systems), SMB/CIFS (Server Message
Block/Common Internet File System) (used with MS Windows systems), AFP (used with Apple
Macintoshcomputers), or NCP (used with OES and Novell NetWare). NAS units rarely limit clients to a single
protocol.

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