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by barnabask 57 days ago
TIL that DAS stands for "Direct Attached Storage." In the olden times we called them external hard drives.
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Telaneo 57 days ago
A DAS device will typically hold more than one hard drive. But yes, it's a more fancy version of having four seperate external hard drives hooked up.
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BenjiWiebe 57 days ago
Well with the move to SSD's, it added two syllables.

Maybe external solid state drive is just too long and it finally had to be sortened somehow.

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