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Compared with file storage and other storage, the biggest advantage of object storage is the technical structure, can do real remote backup, real global deployment.

File Storage (NAS)

Relatively speaking, it can take into account multiple applications and more user access, while providing convenient means of data sharing. After all, most of the user data is stored in file form. In the era of PC, data sharing is mostly in the form of files, such as common server FTP services, NFS services, Samba sharing, which all belong to file storage. File storage sharing access for dozens or even hundreds of users can be solved with NAS storage.

In the early years of the development of public cloud, when the scale of users was small, the underlying hardware of cloud storage could be solved with several sets of NAS storage devices, and even the image of the CVM was placed on NAS storage. The wide compatibility and ease of use of file storage is a prominent feature of this kind of storage. But in terms of performance, it is lower than SAN. NAS storage is basically Ethernet access mode, ordinary gigabit network, NFS/CIFS protocol.

Object storage

It was not until the concepts of cloud computing and big data were pushed forward that they slowly entered the public eye. File storage is basically used within proprietary local area networks, while the dominant scenario of object cloud storage is the Internet or public network, which mainly solves the needs of massive data and massive concurrent access. Internet-based applications are the main adaptation of object storage (this condition also applies to cloud computing, where Internet-based applications are easiest to migrate to the cloud).

Network disk applications are similar, with a large amount of data and a large number of concurrent visits, so it is worth listing a separate project to support 100000-level users. Archiving applications are only cold data with a large amount of data, but the demand for concurrent access is not very prominent.

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