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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Hardware

Hardware needs on a NAS apply primarily to the network speed and hard

drive redundancy, at least according the CompTIA objectives. If you have a

very active server, you should also pay attention to the amount of RAM it has

and the speed of the CPU. Beefing both up above the standard thick client

can help if you start getting some lag.

For the network, a wired Gigabit Ethernet NIC should be standard issue.

Although it sounds cool to go wireless, you should limit the use of wireless to

the single connection between the wireless access point and the client. The

home server should connect via Ethernet to minimize any lag or dropped

frames.

A file server’s hard drives do the heavy and sustained lifting for the PC, so

you should not stint on them. At a minimum, get two drives of identical size

that have as much capacity as you can afford. Plus, because you need fault

tolerance on the data, you simply must use a RAID 1 configuration at a

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