Benefits
- Hardware is typically easy to set up and use, particularly when a unit is purchased with a disk installed.
- The disk drive can be used via multiple interfaces (typically eSATA, USB or Ethernet) though not concurrently: USB and eSATA allow access by only one host.
- The disks do not require special formatting so they can be treated as external disks on a wide variety of computers.
- Performance (speed vs. cost) is claimed to be better than similarly priced storage devices.
- Devices are isolated from external network discovery since the protocol is not visible through a router.
Read more about this topic: Network Direct Attached Storage
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