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GlusterFS Hardware FAQ

From GlusterDocumentation

What is a brick?

Each storage node or server in your cluster is called a brick. It is the basic unit of storage in your cluster.

What is the problem with DAS / RAID / JBOD / NFS / SAN?

They don't scale both in terms of size and performance. SAN is better than the rest, but it is exorbitantly expensive. But even SAN cannot scale to hundreds of TBs for a large number of clients.