📝 Network attached storage

📖 From Operating System • 10. Mass Storage Structure • 11 questions available

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🔄 Last updated: 2026-07-26

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Q1. A small company needs a file server that can be accessed by multiple workstations across the office without installing drives in each PC. Which solution best meets this need?

🔹 A. Install a separate IDE drive in each workstation

🔹 B. Deploy a network‑attached storage (NAS) appliance

🔹 C. Connect each PC to a SATA drive via USB

🔹 D. Use a Fibre Channel switch to attach each PC directly to a disk array

💡 Difficulty: easy | ✅ Correct: B

Q2. Why does network‑attached storage typically use protocols like NFS or SMB rather than low‑level block protocols such as SCSI?

🔹 A. Because file‑level protocols simplify permission management and allow heterogeneous clients to share files

🔹 B. Because block protocols are incompatible with Ethernet hardware

🔹 C. Because NFS and SMB provide faster raw data transfer rates

🔹 D. Because block protocols cannot be used over wireless networks

💡 Difficulty: medium | ✅ Correct: A

Q3. A company plans to replace its aging file server with a NAS device that supports up to 16 Gb/s Ethernet. If each user averages 200 MB/s of read/write traffic, what is the maximum number of users the NAS can support simultaneously without saturating the link?

🔹 A. 80 users

🔹 B. 64 users

🔹 C. 128 users

🔹 D. 256 users

💡 Difficulty: hard | ✅ Correct: A

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📝 Magnetic disks 📝 Solid state disks 📝 Magnetic tapes 📝 Disk Structure 📝 Host attached storage

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