Wuala Hoops

While the cost of storage has been in free-fall for as long as the PC has been on the desk, the principals behind storage have remained fundamentally the same. In most cases, personal storage is directly connected to your workstation and in networked environments a NAS or fileshare provides addressable storage over the WAN. Unfortunately, even large scale SAN’s don’t really provide true ubiquity of storage, and as such someone must pay careful attention to the integrity of the primary storage devices.

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