N E T W O R K S T O R A G E • N E T W O R K S T O R A G E • N E T W O R K S T O R A G E • N E T W O R K
E N T RY LEVEL W O R K G R O U P / M I D R A N G E HIGH END/ENTERPRISE
Number of clients
Usage
Storage
Interfaces
Manufacturers
Typical street prices
NAS Segmentation
1–12
Small office or workgroup
1–2 IDE drives; JBOD or
limited RAID
10/100Mbit Ethernet
3Com
Castelle
Cobalt
Intel
Linksys
Maxtor
NETGEAR
Seagate
Snap Appliances
Quantum
$500–$1,999
20–200
Mid-sized office or workgroup
Up to 15 IDE or SCSI drives;
JBOD or up to RAID 5
100Mbit or Gigabit Ethernet
Addonics
ADIC
Axis
Axonix
Compaq
Connex
Excel/Meridian Data
HP
IBM
Maxtor
Microtest
Network Appliance
Network Engines
nStor
Procom
Quantum | ATL
Snap Appliances
Quantum
$2,000–$9,999
100s or 1,000s
Data center or enterprise
100s of SCSI or FC drives;
multiple/redundant
controllers; all RAID levels
100Mbit or Gigabit Ethernet,
ATM, FDDI
ADIC
Auspex
EMC
Network Appliance
$10,000–$500,000
S A S — S E RV E R - AT TA C H E D N A S — N E T W O R K - SAN—STORAGE-AREA
S T O R A G E AT TACHED STORAGE N E T W O R K
Products
Connection
Internal interface(s)
External interface(s)
• Hard drives
• Tape drives
• Tape automation units
• Storage arrays
• CD-ROMs
• DVDs
• Floppy drives
• Interface controllers
• RAID controllers
Direct
• IDE/ATAPI
• SCSI
• Fibre Channel
• NAS servers
• NAS engines
Network
N/A
• 10/100/1000Mb
(i.e., Gigabit Ethernet)
• ATM
• FDDI
• Tape drives
• Tape automation units
• Storage arrays
• NAS servers
• FC hubs and switches
• Host bust adapters
• Interface controllers
• RAID controllers
• ridges
• Cabling
• Software
Direct/network
N/A
• SCSI (over IP)
• Fibre Channel
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