Storage Area Networks: Designing and Implementing a Mass Storage System

Chapter 2. A Brief History of Storage

This chapter discusses:

• How did we get to networking storage anyway?

• Tapes

• Disks

• Local Area Networks (LANs)

• Network Attached Storage (NAS)

• RAID

• Mass storage

• Storage Area Networks

Data storage has evolved over decades. This historical perspective shows how storage grew up.