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When to switch to network storage (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by surewhynotlem@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been selfhosting a while. I run around 15 distinct services in docker containers, all on a single machine with a medium sized disk. It's a small form factor, and I recently had to add space, so I've attached an external USB storage device.

It feels clunky.

At what point does a performant SAN/NAS make sense more than local storage? When did you make the jump?

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NFS	Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
NVMe	Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SAN	Storage Area Network
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.

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