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As with any storage solution...<br />
How long can you afford to be without your data?<br />
How much fault tolerance and redundancy? Per Gerald's comment -- identifying and minimizing single points of failure - requires you take into consideration: hardware, software, infrastructure as part of your business continuity plan. Then there's the cost...
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As with any storage solution...
How long can you afford to be without your data?
How much fault tolerance and redundancy? Per Gerald's comment -- identifying and minimizing single points of failure - requires you take into consideration: hardware, software, infrastructure as part of your business continuity plan. Then there's the cost...

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What kind of things can/do go wrong with SANS, and what should an audit/healthcheck focus on when looking at SANS for risks?
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What kind of things can/do go wrong with SANS, and what should an audit/healthcheck focus on when looking at SANS for risks?

SAN risks

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

Networking hardware includes the physical devices facilitating the use of a computer network. Typically, networking hardware includes gateways, routers, network bridges, modems, wireless access points, networking cables, line drivers, switches, hubs, and repeaters. But it also includes hybrid network devices such as multilayer switches, protocol converters, bridge routers, proxy servers, firewalls, network address translators, multiplexers, network interface controllers, wireless network interface controllers, ISDN terminal adapters and other related hardware.

Networking Hardware-Other

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.