DAS (Direct Attached Storage)

"Direct Attached Storage" a digital storage system directlyattached to a server or workstation without a storage network inbetween. Mainly used to differentiate non-networked storagefrom SAN and NAS.

Storage that is directly connected to a server.

An acronym for Direct Attached Storage, those parts of a Wide Area Network in which the mass storage devices are connected locally

DAS is storage that is directly connected to a server by connectivity media such as parallel SCSI cables. This direct connection provides fast access to the data; however, storage is only accessible from that server. DAS include the internally attached local disk drives or externally attached RAID (redundant array of independent disks) or JBOD (just a bunch of disks). Although Fibre Channel can be used for direct attached, it is more commonly used in storage area networks.