What is the difference between HDFS and NAS?

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Editor Staff asked 10 months ago

What is the difference between HDFS and NAS?

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Editor Staff answered 10 months ago

HDFS data blocks are distributed across local drives of all machines in a cluster whereas, NAS data is stored on dedicated hardware.