u/Emotional_Garage_950

Referring to tonight’s WAN show. Someone in the chat asked what the difference between a NAS and a SAN is. Linus’ answer came down to basically the number of nodes/redundancy.

A NAS provides file storage, a SAN provides block storage.
You can have a SAN that consists of a single node with no redundancy (although this isn’t typical).

The other primary difference is how they are used… A NAS is typically used by client machines to store files whereas a SAN is typically used by a compute cluster and/or hypervisors to provide a pool of storage that can be broken out for physical or virtual servers

This isn’t the first time he’s demonstrated limited knowledge about enterprise stuff…

/end rant