With greater performance, functionality and ease of use, it is hard to justify the need for a SAN in modern creative workflows.

As technology moves forward and IP connectivity continues to revolutionize workflows in the media industry, we are starting to see SAN (Storage Area Network) as an inconvenient and overly complicated way of sharing our digital storage amongst the various platforms that most businesses use.

In this paper we will look at the differences between the two technologies and highlight the major advantages that NAS (Network Attached Storage) offers to modern businesses.