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TIL that DAS stands for "Direct Attached Storage." In the olden times we called them external hard drives.


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.


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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