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Fixed Storage Capacity
To add capacity requires opening systems and physically adding disks to the system.
Once full, a new system must be purchased resulting in storage sprawl.
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Unlimited Storage Capacity
Simple and convenient to add low cost storage nodes as you need to grow capacity to any size.
Keeps a single pool of storage to streamline management.
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Fixed Processing Capacity
All processing is done at the storage system. As the number of concurrent PC requests
for storage rises, processing becomes a bottleneck and performance quickly degrades. As user base grows, processing
can not be increased.
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Unlimited Processing Capacity
NASg harnesses the processing power of the PC's. As demand increases on the storage resource
from more PCs, processing power is also increased to eliminate processing bottlenecks.
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Fixed Network Bandwidth
Network bandwidth limits the amount of data the system can transfer at one time. Once full,
storage requests queue up and overall performance drops.
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Unlimited Network Bandwidth
NASg uses parallel IO from the client to many storage nodes. This eliminates network bottlenecks
and uniformly spreads the load across many storage nodes.
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Single Point of Failure
Any component can fail. Any disk, network, power or processor failure can lead to business
disruption or catastrophic data loss.
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Unlimited Reliability
There is no central control point or single point of failure in a grid.
NASg provides a configurable level of fault tolerance designed to withstand many concurrent failures without
data loss or down time.
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