NAS Server Solution
What is a NAS Server?
A NAS Server turns a PC into a Network Attached Storage device. It supports connections from Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, Linux and FreeBSD. It supports RAID, has a simple web GUI and modest system requirements.
You can also install NAS is an embedded operating system. This means it is compact, efficient and dedicated to just one task, in this case NAS. Once the NAS Server is installed on a PC, the PC becomes a dedicated NAS, it can’t do other general tasks at the same time.
Features
The NAS Server supports the following network access protocols
* CIFS (via Samba)
* FTP
* NFS
* AFP
* RSYNC
* iSCSI
It also features:
* Support for S.M.A.R.T
* Local and Active Directory user authentication
* Software RAID [ 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 ]
What is Network Attached Storage?
In the mid 1980′s two computer companies independently started to work on ways to access files, over the network. These two companies were Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. The Sun Microsystems method, which was for their UNIX operating system, is known as the Network File System (NFS) and was subsequently implemented in almost all versions of the Unix operating system including Linux. The Microsoft solution (which they actually joint developed with IBM in the initial stages) became known as SMB (Server Message Block) but in later years was renamed as the Common Internet File System (CIFS). The general functionality of NFS and CIFS is very similar and with either installed on a networked computer it can read and write to the file system on another computer on the network.
This ability to use a remote computer (a fileserver) to store files led to many companies deploying large centralized NFS Servers or Windows Servers which were accessed by hundreds and maybe thousands of Unix workstations or PC clients. Users would then be encouraged to store all important files on these servers as the IT staff would back up the servers regularly and so back up the important user files.
With modern needs for multimedia storage combined with high speed local networks, a new kind of storage solution has appeared, Network Attached Storage or NAS for short. A NAS server is similar to a traditional file server in many ways, especially in respects to the hardware side of the server. But a NAS server is much more specialized than a traditional office or departmental server in that it only provides access to storage via the network. It is not designed to run other applications such as databases or email servers which other types of server might.
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Recovery management
If your computer crashed and your disc files or data are missing or deleted, our professional data recovery service can restore the PC files back on a USB Flash drive or external hard drive. We offer an affordable backup and restoration solution for lost data if you live in Durban or KwaZulu Natal. After your files have been returned, we can help set your computer with online backup software or use Windows backup and recovery to schedule your backups to your external hard drive on a daily or weekly schedule. We also can repair and recovery Outlook PST and OST files. To install our online backup program you can schedule an appointment to have one of our responsive technicians at our helpdesk assist you for an affordable price to backing up your data online.
Operations and services
Backing up your data is the golden rule here at Micro Division. Here are some of the options we offer our customers
1. Back up data to your media/device
2. Professional data recovery
3. Media Recovery
4. Data transfers between computers
5. Full hard drive recovery
6. External hard drive data recovery
7. Data retrieval from damaged hard drives or crashed computers
8. Recover and repair outlook pst files
9. Set up Cloud Online Backup!
10. Raid Server
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