Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

Storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS) owe their popularity to some compelling advantages in scalability, utilization and data management. But achieving high performance for ...

Deciding how you're going to start or expand your network storage should be a simple proposition. But spending a day listening to sales pitches riddled with confusing acronyms like DAS, SAN, and NAS ...

Oxford Semiconductor unveiled its AES 128-bit security encryption solutions for the growing family of Oxford's direct-attached storage (DAS) platform solutions. Oxford Semiconductor unveiled its AES ...

NASes are not for everyone. They can be expensive, and oftentimes, they provide features that, frankly, a lot of people don't need. A NAS is what you get when you want your own cloud storage of sorts, ...

Continuing our examination of the resurgence of direct attached storage (DAS), in this entry we look at the ever-increasing internal capacity of DAS in servers. One of the key reasons users begin ...

Capacity presents two challenges to the Storage Area Network (SAN) vs. Direct Attached Storage (DAS) debate. A traditional knock against DAS and a reason that many data centers get a SAN is because of ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

We're looking at purchasing a Dell MD1000 direct attached storage unit for a vSphere host at a branch office. The MD1000 will be carved up into different volumes with different RAID levels depending ...

Oxford Semiconductor has unveiled its AES 128-bit security encryption solutions for the growing family of Oxford's direct-attached storage (DAS) platform solutions. Aimed at the increasing need to ...