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1. SAN stands for Storage Area Network. NAS stands for Network Attached Storage.
In SAN (Storage Area Network), data is In NAS (Network Attached Storage), data is
2. identified by disk block. identified by file name as well as byte offset.
In SAN (Storage Area Network), file In NAS (Network Attached Storage), file system is
3. system is managed by servers. managed by Head unit.
SAN (Storage Area Network) is more NAS (Network Attached Storage) is less expensive
4. costly. than SAN.
SAN(Storage Area Network) is more NAS (Network Attached Storage) is less complex
5. complex than NAS. than SAN.