NAS Drives

A network attached storage (NAS) drive is a regular computer hard drive that plugs directly into a computer network, allowing other devices on the network to access the information stored on the drive.

NAS drives are becoming increasingly popular in homes due as an alternative to external hard drives. NAS drives can be used to store your photos, music, games and videos, just like an external hard drive, but at the same time allowing all of your PCs, Laptops, Games Consoles, Televisions, media players and sound systems to access the same content.

Lots of NAS Drives come with built in RAID, a technology that allows a number of disks to appear as one. This is already beneficial, but the major selling point for using RAID is the redundency. Some RAID setups can actually have one of the disks fail and continue to operate. Whenever possible, usually the sooner the better, you can replace the faulty disk and the array will be back up to it’s full running status, without losing all of your data