Network Attached Storage Central Storage and File Sharing
Whether it be a Small Office/Home Office or a Home, NAS Backup technology deserves some consideration. The one integral part of implementing Network Attached Storage is a router, hub, or switch. These are commonplace in networked office environments, and thanks to the availability of high speed internet access, also exist in a number of homes.
A good number of residences which have high speed internet also have multiple computers. If you have more than one computer it and a cable or DSL connection, it would be an easy next step to add NAS rather than having a backup device for each computer.
For small office environments they make great sense. Today's Real Estate Office uses the internet for the majority of their work, but individual Realtors may have correspondence they produce over years on each workstation. Because they don't share applications it is a stretch to recommend a server, but with a central storage area, using NAS Backup, files can be protected from loss. A NAS device can also be used to share files.
In this Diagram MBSTOR01 represents the NAS device.
Node 192.168.1.1 represents the cable router, we have a shared HP Printer, and two computers sharing the resources.
The screen shot below is a partial screen view of the MBStor01 units home page, you see that there is 7% used of the 461GB available.
You can see in the graphic below that the unit actually has two 465GB drives. The drives are configured as "mirrored", they are duplicates of each other, creating further redundancy in that if one drive fails, the information is still on the second.
I have two videos for you to review in regard to backups.
In this Diagram MBSTOR01 represents the NAS device.
