Last month we began discussing typical file systems, starting first with local and shared file systems, then moving into the network file system. The network file system (also known as a proxy file ...

Improvements in network-attached storage density and performance target unstructured data workloads. Here's how a NAS server works, how it is different from a SAN, and what IT buyers want in ...

Getting a little tired of one Windows SMB (Server Message Block) security problem after another? Want a reliable and fast file and print server without the Windows server headaches? Then, may I ...

I have a home NAS (synology 1515+) I've typically connected to shares via afp (Mac OS 10.14). But recently was noticing some weird network slow downs after many hours of use. The shares would just ...

When you have a local network, you can have network storage — an SMB share on a file server, or a Network Attached Storage (NAS) box that everything on the network can access. Inside a cloud service, ...

While playing around with the ideas I have for our upgraded storage solution (link to another thread in the Server Room with some background info) for our graphics/video shop, I began to wonder if we ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

Iomega is showing everyone that they understand the heart of small businesses. The company recently introduced a storage package that lets small businesses try out virtualization on their own terms.

Among the issues some people have had with OS X 10.9 Mavericks, one of the biggest gotchas was a loss of access to SMB network shares -- the connection many NAS devices (Network attached storage), ...

[The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] I don't often write about my day to day work, but sometimes I run across a problem that is so ...

“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” is a line from Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West. It could also apply to Windows and Linux. If you don’t know what you’re ...