Benefits of NAS

Benefits of Network Attached Storage -

Availability of data: Users running different types of machines and running different types of operating systems can share files.

Centralized storage, which makes it easier and cheaper to maintain, backup, and administer (comparable to DAS). Incidentally, centralized storage is more expensive than local disks on byte cost basis, but users have to do tasks such as backups and restores on their own.

Performance can be increased by NAS because the file serving is done by the NAS and not done by a server responsible for also doing other processing. The performance of NAS devices, though, depends heavily on the speed of and traffic on the network and on the amount of cache memory (RAM) on the NAS computers or devices