Both technologies create disks that are accessed directly by many computers over a network. The computers share the network resource. This reduces maintenance in large systems, and also avoids having a single computer tied up answering requests for its data from all over a network.
SAN disks run as an extension of a computer's operating system. Therefore connected computers must have operating systems and software that are compatible with the SAN to be able to use it. NETGEAR's SC101 and SC101T are such SAN devices.
A NAS is a more complicated device that has its own, small operating system. Sometimes computers that have been converted just to be file servers are referred to as NAS devices.
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