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[–] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Directly Attached Storage. A NAS but without the network part, a box of drives which you plug into your PC directly. For consumers via USB mostly, for larger applications via SAS or something.

[–] fri@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SAS? Now we need another explanation!

[–] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

It's a connection standard for enterprise hardware, think of it like your PCs SATA connections on steroids. You can have higher speeds, many drives on a single cable, and redundancy.