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Contents
Contents 2
Introduction 3
Audience 3
Scope 3
Related Documents 3
Networked Storage Overview 4
Storage Solution 4
Storage Concepts and Technologies 7
Network Attached Storage (NAS) 7
LAN Infrastructure 7
Storage Centralization/Aggregation 8
Storage Virtualization 8
Distributed File System 9
RAID 9
RAID 0 (Striped Set) 11
RAID 1 (Mirror) 11
RAID 1+Spare (Mirror + Spare) 12
RAID 5 (Striped + Parity) 12
RAID 5+Spare (Parity + Spare) 13
RAID 10 (Mirror Then Stripe) 13
JBOD – (Linear) - (Just a Bunch of Disks) 14
Storage Security 14
Access Control 14
Data Integrity and Protection 15
RAID Hot Spares 15
Data Encryption 15
File/Volume Locking 16
Configurable Network Access Filtering (IP and MAC based) 16
File Transfer Security 16
Anti-Virus 16
Secure Management Protocols 16
Storage Expansion 16
Storage Backup 17
Local Backup 17
Remote Backup 19
Volume Snapshots 20
Storage Recovery 22
Storage Performance 22
Availability 22
MTBF 23
SMART 24
Storage Management 24
Linksys Differentiation 25
Conclusion 26
Appendix A 27
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