What Will the NAS Do? — TechKnowSurge

About this interactive

A network attached storage device is storage with its own network connection. The NAS lesson plugs one into a switch, and from then on any machine on the network can reach it, or only the people it is shared with. It is a central place to store files, back them up and get them to someone else's computer. Inside, it is a small computer: drives, a processor and memory. It runs its own operating system, such as Synology's Disk Station Manager (DSM), which is built on Linux, and packages add apps such as a Plex media server for streaming. The lesson lists ease of use and scalability as benefits, and security as the drawback: a NAS set up carelessly exposes everything on it. Read each situation, choose what happens, then read why.

What you'll learn

Predict how a network attached storage (NAS) device behaves: it is storage reached over the network by any permitted machine, runs its own operating system and apps, and needs securing

Aligned to

CompTIA Tech+

2.5 Compare and contrast storage types.

CompTIA A+ Core 1

2.4 Summarize services provided by networked hosts.

Key terms

Network Attached Storage: A file-level storage device connected to a network that provides centralized data access for multiple clients, functioning as a dedicated file server. NAS devices use standard network protocols such as NFS and SMB/CIFS to share files across a LAN.

Topics

Nas Network Storage File Sharing Computing Devices Interactive Predict

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